Tens of thousands of Los Angeles school employees are planning to strike for three days starting on Tuesday, which could force hundreds of campuses to close and cancel classes for 422,000 students.
The union that represents 30,000 support workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District is seeking a 30 percent pay increase, saying that many employees make little more than the minimum wage and are struggling to afford the cost of living in Southern California.
The Los Angeles teachers’ union has asked its 35,000 members to walk out in solidarity and avoid crossing the support workers’ picket lines.
Leaders of the school district, the second-largest in the nation, say they are now working around the clock to avert a strike. Even so, they have urged parents since last week to begin making child-care arrangements, because a walkout by both the support workers and the teachers would necessitate shutting down more than 1,000 schools.
The planned strike has forced families to scramble, and has rekindled frustrations that many parents felt over the lengthy school closures prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Some parents are able to care for their children by working remotely, but many have jobs that require their physical presence at a workplace outside the home.
Here’s what we know about the planned walkout.
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