Los Angeles Schools Shut Down as Staff Begin 3-day Strike
Demonstrations began Tuesday by members of Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union, which represents about 30,000 support staffers.
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Demonstrations began Tuesday by members of Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union, which represents about 30,000 support staffers.
Tens of thousands of workers walked off the job in a school district that is the nation's second-largest.
Los Angeles school workers are striking for three days over stalled contracts. In the second-largest school system in the country, working conditions have gone down every year, said Danielle Murray, a special education assistant on the picket line.
About 150 of the district's more than 1,000 schools will remain open without instruction to give students a place to go.
Strike joined by teachers over better wages and increased staffing closes nation’s second-largest school system