Officials with the Los Angeles Unified School District announced Tuesday evening that schools would remain closed Wednesday amid a strike for better pay and working conditions by tens of thousands of district workers who began picketing early Monday morning. The strike, which had been in the works for several weeks, includes the support of as many as 60,000 members of the Local 99 of Service Employees International Union and United Teachers Los Angeles. Demonstrators started picketing in the morning rain at LAUSD’s Van Nuys bus yard. Other district workers and...

BOYLE HEIGHTS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- With tens of thousands of workers for Los Angeles Unified on strike and schools closed, a variety of community resources were made available to lighten the burden for parents and students. At the top of the list was a free meal, which is a key resource for students who rely on school lunches. The district announced 124,596 meals were distributed on Tuesday, the first day of the strike. The district is broken up into four regions - north, east, south and west. Region east...

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the country's second-largest, closed its doors Tuesday on the first of a three-day solidarity strike by teachers who are backing a 30 percent pay raise plus $2 per hour "equity wage adjustment" for custodial workers represented by the powerful Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Keeping kids locked out of schools has become quite the specialty for United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA).

LAUSD employees and students strike in the rain in front of Farmdale Elementary School in El Sereno on Tuesday. Christina Lowe didn’t expect to be hauling her young son and daughter to the Pan Pacific Park Recreation Center from their home in Sherman Oaks. But the strike by Los Angeles Unified School District workers had closed schools, and her kids needed something to do. And so, there she was, in a pouring rain at 9:45 on Tuesday morning, caught up in the chaos. “We found out this was happening last...

Workers distribute meals for students in Los Angeles on March 21. Photo: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Hundreds of Los Angeles schools are closed for three days starting Tuesday as workers strike for higher wages and better working conditions. The impact: The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second largest, serves nearly half a million students who will not be in school for most of this week, impacting hundreds of thousands of families and leaving parents scrambling to find child care. • 80% of...

The nation’s second-largest school district ground to a halt Tuesday as 30,000 service employees — joined in sympathy by about 30,000 teachers — walked off the job to begin an anticipated three-day strike in demand of higher wages.

Despite persistent rain, picketing began in the predawn hours at a Van Nuys bus yard, then spread to locations throughout the district, which closed all of its schools in response to the walkout, leaving 420,000 students without classes.

More than 500,000 children were shut out of lessons Tuesday as school workers in Los Angeles began a three-day walkout over pay. Bus drivers, cafeteria workers and special education assistants employed by Los Angeles Unified School District -- the second biggest in the United States -- are striking over what they say are "poverty wages." The roughly 30,000 members of the powerful United Teachers Los Angeles union will not cross the picket line and will therefore not be working, the union said. Service Employees International Union Local 99 says many...

Los Angeles public school staff — including bus drivers, custodians, and cafeteria workers — have commenced a three-day strike over wages and labor practices they say are unfair. The city’s public school teachers are striking in solidarity with school service workers, resulting in closures impacting more than 565,000 students in the nation’s second-largest school district.

With LAUSD schools closed, parents have made alternative plans for childcare and the city of LA is offering their recreation centers as an option for families. The Echo Park Recreation Center is one of 30 sites open for families. They are already at capacity with 50 students and since the city required parents to register their children they were able to plan ahead for staffing. The planning ahead allowed parents to know if there was any space left for their child, if not they could choose another location or a...

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 more than 500,000 students and their families.

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.