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Tens of thousands of workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District have walked off the job over stalled contract talks, closing schools and impacting roughly 500,000 students and their families.
Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD teachers and Service Employees International Union 99 (SEIU) members strike under heavy rain outside the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center in Los Angeles Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Tens of thousands of workers in the LAUSD are walking off the job over stalled contract talks. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) 
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) 
Thousands gathered outside LAUSD headquarters in Westlake on Day 1 of a workers’ strike on March 21, 2023. (KTLA) 
Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD teachers and Service Employees International Union 99 members strike during heavy rain outside the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center in Los Angeles on March 21, 2023. (Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press) 
Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD teachers and Service Employees International Union 99 members strike during heavy rain outside the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center in Los Angeles on March 21, 2023. (Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press) 
A Los Angeles Unified School District teacher holds a sign during heavy rain outside the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center in Los Angeles on March 21, 2023. (Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press) 
Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD teachers and Service Employees International Union 99 members strike under heavy rain asking for a fair contract outside the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center in Los Angeles on March 21, 2023. (Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press) 
Los Angeles Unified School District teacher Sarah Phillips stands under heavy rain outside the closed doors of the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center in Los Angeles on March 21, 2023. (Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press) 
Los Angeles Unified School District administrator staff enter the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center during heavy rain in Los Angeles on March 21, 2023. (Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press) 
Union workers walk the picket line at the LAUSD bus yard in Van Nuys, on March 21, 2023. (KTLA) 
Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD teachers and Service Employees International Union 99 (SEIU) members strike during heavy rain outside 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) 
Teacher Sarah Harris joins Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD teachers and Service Employees International Union 99 (SEIU) members striking as rain falls outside 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) 
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) 
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 striking 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) 
English teacher Gary O’Brien, right, with holds a sign as he joins 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. March 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) 
Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD teachers and Service Employees International Union 99 (SEIU) members strike under heavy rain asking for a fair contract outside the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center in Los Angeles Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Tens of thousands of workers in the LAUSD are walking off the job over stalled contract talks. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) 
LAUSD workers and supporters rallied in downtown Los Angeles to announce dates of a looming labor strike on March 14, 2023. (KTLA) 
A crowd of Los Angeles Unified School District teachers and Service Employees International Union 99 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) 
Sylvia Garcia from Bassett Street Elementary talks as she and other teachers attend a Los Angeles Unified School District and Service Employees International Union 99 rally in Grand Park in downtown Los Angels, Wednesday, March 15, 2023. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times via AP) 
A demonstrator holds up a sign outside Los Angeles City Hall before a rally announcing a possible LAUSD workers strike on March 15, 2023. (KTLA) 
Los Angeles Unified School District union workers rally in downtown L.A. on March 15, 2023. (KTLA) 
LAUSD workers and supporters rallied in downtown Los Angeles to announce dates of a looming labor strike on March 14, 2023. (KTLA) 
Los Angeles Unified School District union workers rally in downtown L.A. on March 15, 2023. (KTLA)
Members of Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union are being joined in solidarity by United Teachers Los Angeles, the union representing 35,000 educators, counselors and other staff. The strike is scheduled to last three days.
