Los Angeles teachers join support staff strike, impacting a half-million students

by KAYLA GASKINS | The National Desk

Tue, March 21st 2023, 9:12 PM UTC

A crowd of Los Angeles Unified School District teachers and Service Employees International Union 99 (SEIU) members gather in Grand Park in front of City Hall on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times via AP)

English teachers with United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) join the Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD teachers and Service Employees International Union 99 (SEIU) members picketing outside the Evans Community Adult School in Los Angeles, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Tens of thousands of workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District walked off the job Tuesday over stalled contract talks, and they were joined by teachers in a three-day strike that shut down the nation’s second-largest school system. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD teacher Sarah Phillips, left, stands under heavy rain outside the closed doors of the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center in Los Angeles, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Tens of thousands of workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District walked off the job Tuesday over stalled contract talks, and they were joined by teachers in a three-day strike that shut down the nation’s second-largest school system. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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A crowd of Los Angeles Unified School District teachers and Service Employees International Union 99 (SEIU) members gather in Grand Park in front of City Hall on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times via AP)

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