>basically the bus drivers, cafeteria workers, special ed >aides, class aides etc that make a school go ordered this >militant move and are giving up 3 days pay because the >district is harassing members for organizing, among other >illegal acts apparently. they make waaay less than us, like >25k a year, have long had no health insurance, prevented from >full time hours, and many of them experience housing >insecurity and even homelessness.
thats a shame. i knew teachers and support staff were underpaid in the general sense that all teachers should be paid more but didnt know it was this bad. its wild cuz a lot of city positions are some of the highest paid in the country (and include annual cost of living increases). especially frustrating considering stuff like the $200m/annually for 'patrol' to stand around on they phones at the metro (shits a disaster).
also a trip that some of the same people talkin about "what about the kids" over a three day absence had 'em home for 2 years during the percy jackson and falling behind in every metric with no real recourse for catchin up. was raised lausd k-12 and only recently found out about the state of the district when starting to look for my own. shit sad.