Workers who feed, transport, teach, heal and clean up after Los Angeles students kicked off a historic three-day strike Tuesday, shutting down the state's largest school system as they rally for higher wages and better working conditions.
The nonteaching workers earn an average salary of $25,000, Local 99 Executive Director Max Arias told The Times last week, and the union is seeking to raise that to $36,000.
It may only be planned for three days, but the strike was “decades in the making,” according to Mindy Chen, director of theChen previously worked as an organizer for SEIU and noted the significance of this week’s action, which marks the first time the two unions have joined together in a strike, with UTLA willing to “voluntarily withhold pay and withhold work to actually stand in solidarity” with their schools’ nonteaching workers.
That focus on community building laid the path for this week’s action, Chen said, as many LAUSD families whose lives are disrupted by the strike are standing in solidarity with striking school workers.
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