LAUSD teacher and service worker unions announce massive April 14 strike if no deal reached
Source: LA Times
By Howard Blume
March 18, 2026 6:11 PM PT
Los Angeles Unified’s two largest labor groups — the teachers union and service employees — announced Wednesday they will join forces and both go on strike April 14 if no contract deal is reached before then, actions that would effectively shut down schools in less than a month.
The strike would affect close to 400,000 students in the nation’s second-largest school system and an estimated 32,000 students in the adult school. It would mean more than 60,000 essential district workers — teachers, counselors, nurses, bus drivers, janitors and cafeteria workers — would walk off the job, crippling school operations.
The strike would come at a particularly difficult time for the district, with Supt. Alberto Carvalho on paid administrative leave following an FBI raid on his San Pedro home and downtown L.A. office and hundreds of layoffs anticipated amid what he previously described as a troubled budget at its “breaking point.”
United Teachers Los Angeles President Cecily Myart-Cruz and Max Arias, the executive director of Service Employees International Union Local 99, made the announcement at a large rally Wednesday afternoon in Gloria Molina Grand Park, across from City Hall in downtown L.A.
Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-18/la-teachers-union-widely-expected-to-announce-strike-date-at-massive-wednesday-rally