"LAUSD Staff and Teachers Continue Strike, Leaving 420,000 Students Without Classes"

Los Angeles public school staff, including bus drivers, custodians, and cafeteria workers, have gone on a three-day strike over wages and labor practices they say are unfair. The city’s public school teachers are striking in solidarity with school service workers, resulting in closures impacting more than 565,000 students in the nation’s second-largest school district. Workers are seeking a 30 percent wage increase and at least a $2 hourly equity wage adjustment, as well as improved health care benefits and more full-time work to address staffing shortages. The district offered an average of less than 4 percent annual raises and did not provide any raises in 2020, according to the union.