Los Angeles Unified School District workers are expected to walk out Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Schools will be closed.
With 80% of students from low-income families, the school system plays an important role in providing breakfast, lunch and sometimes dinner Monday through Friday.in a limited way. Families will be able to pick up prepackaged meals from about two dozen locations across the school system on Tuesday only, and only from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Each family can receive six meals per student — for breakfast and lunch on each of the three strike days.
The district has experience from the pandemic distributing vast numbers of meals. One difference this time is that the workers who provided the backbone of that aid — including the cafeteria and central kitchen workers — will be on strike. Local 99 also represents bus drivers, teacher aides, security aides and custodians.Jessica Aguilera, a parent, waits to pick up her children at 153rd Street Elementary School.
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