Los Angeles schools are closed as a three-day strike of district workers begins.
by service workers employed by the nation's second-largest public school district was underway Tuesday, officials said.
District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho had said at a news conference Monday evening that all schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District would be closed Tuesday. LAUSD has an enrollment ofService Employees International Union Local 99, which represents cafeteria workers, bus drivers, custodians and special education assistants, said that its members were striking because negotiations that might have provided a solution were nonexistent.
Local 99 blamed the day’s negotiation failure on the district. Its executive director, Max Arias, said district officials broke an agreement to hold confidential mediation over a potential contract, nixing progress.KNBC “We were never in the same room or even in the same building,” Carvalho said Monday of the failed negotiations. “Today we had a golden opportunity that just didn’t happen.”
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