Negotiators for striking Los Angeles teachers and the United States’ second-largest school district have returned to the bargaining table for the first time since talks collapsed last week, as a walkout by some 30,000 educators entered its fourth day.
In the first teachers’ strike in the Los Angeles Unified School District in 30 years, members of the United Teachers Los Angeles union are seeking higher pay, smaller classes and more support staff, while denouncing their current working conditions as an “injustice.”