{"id":272692,"date":"2026-04-17T14:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/272692\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:59:12","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-lausd-strike-apparently-ended-with-quite-the-deus-ex-machina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/272692\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: LAUSD strike apparently ended with quite the \u2018deus ex machina\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: I am familiar with the concept of \u201cdeus ex machina\u201d from ancient Greek tragedy, where a god would appear onstage to resolve an otherwise apparently intractable problem. However, to apply this concept to \u201cmultibillion-dollar reserves\u201d in the district budget puts a real strain on my imagination (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-04-15\/lausd-strike-averted-with-utla-seiu-local-99-2026-contract-agreements-raises\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe price of LAUSD union peace will be $1.2 billion a year. Next up is paying for it,\u201d<\/a> April 15). I just hope that there is some of this still available when we get the bill for the World Cup and Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Minihan, Westchester<\/p>\n<p>..<\/p>\n<p>To the editor: Government employees should not be allowed to unionize. <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2013\/aug\/14\/scott-walker\/Did-FDR-oppose-collective-bargaining-for-governmen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Even President Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/a> was opposed to government-employee unionization because the taxpayer, who must ultimately pick up the tab, is not represented in the pay negotiations. You ask whether the district can pay up, but it\u2019s taxpayers who ultimately will.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Stenlake, Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: I am familiar with the concept of \u201cdeus ex machina\u201d from ancient Greek tragedy, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[118246,9789,118242,118243,2072,118244,48,52,51,116525,1838,47,50,49,63,118241,10012,118245,9577,41303,5393],"class_list":{"0":"post-272692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ancient-greek-tragedy","9":"tag-concept","10":"tag-deus","11":"tag-district-budget","12":"tag-editor","13":"tag-kevin-minihan","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-la-headlines","16":"tag-la-news","17":"tag-lausd-strike","18":"tag-letter","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","21":"tag-los-angeles-news","22":"tag-los-angeles-times","23":"tag-machina","24":"tag-olympics","25":"tag-real-strain","26":"tag-taxpayer","27":"tag-westchester","28":"tag-world-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}