All LAUSD schools will close after last-minute negotiation plans with union fall flat
Source: ABC7 (KABC Los Angeles)
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- With labor talks at a standstill and no new negotiations scheduled, Los Angeles Unified School District campuses will be closed Tuesday, leaving more than 400,000 students without classes as service workers strike to demand improve wages and working conditions.
The 30,000 workers represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 99 -- including cafeteria workers, bus drivers, custodians, special education assistants and others -- are set to begin picketing at 4:30 a.m. The roughly 30,000 members of the powerful teachers union, United Teachers Los Angeles, will honor the picket line.
LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said he had hoped on Monday to have "a transparent, honest conversation'' that might result in an agreement to stave off the planned three-day strike, but it never happened.
"Despite our invitation for a transparent, honest conversation that perhaps would result in a meaningful solution that would avoid a strike, we were never able to be in the same room or at the same table to address these issues," he said.
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