The ongoing LAUSD strike and its impact on workers and students.
Max Arias, the executive director of Service Employees International Union Local 99, has been instrumental in organizing the ongoing three-day strike of 30,000 Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) workers, including bus drivers, mechanics, custodians, and food workers. The workers are demanding a 30% wage increase over four years and $2 more per hour for the lowest-paid employees. The teachers union is striking in solidarity, shutting down the schools for 420,000 students. This is the first time the two unions have gone on strike together. Arias has been praised for his bottom-up strategy of empowering workers and helping them realize their power.