The union that represents 30,000 teachers’ assistants, bus drivers, custodians and cafeteria workers in Los Angeles’s public school system says its workers are struggling with low pay from a contract that ran out in the early days of the pandemic.
“No one wants to see kids out of school,” said Maura Contreras, a special education assistant at an elementary school. “But we now must take this step.”
Ms. Contreras, 45, said some of her co-workers hold down several jobs to make ends meet. Her own salary barely helps pay for her three-bedroom apartment, she said. She splits the $2,800 rent with her husband and her father, who both work as gardeners.
“There have to be changes in pay,” she said. “We are unseen by the district.”
The employees are seeking a 30 percent pay increase, and union...
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