The Freedom Foundation’s California Outreach Team launched a billboard campaign at the beginning of the year to combat anti-Semitic actions and rhetoric from the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA).
This LA teachers’ union has a long history of inserting foreign policy declarations — usually with the intention of portraying the state of Israel in a negative light — into its own union constitution.
The Middle East conflict has nothing to do with improving the wages or working conditions of LA teachers, but that does not seem to matter to the union.
Consequently, Jewish teachers who are being discriminated against have come to the Freedom Foundation hoping to challenge a California law empowering the union designated by the state to speak for the entire bargaining unit — including teachers who have opted out of the union.
The Freedom Foundation responded by filing a lawsuit against UTLA, and is currently representing 7 plaintiffs, but there is more work to be done — including raising awareness of the issue.
To that end, billboards have gone up in three major locations near UTLA headquarters, the Los Angeles Unified School District offices, and Venice High School — the largest school in LAUSD.
