Over 30,000 teachers in America’s second largest education district of Los Angeles are currently on strike.
The strike, which started on Monday is happening for the first time in 30 years with the teachers demanding a pay raise.
About 480,000 children were believed to be affected by the unusual development.
As thousands of the teachers and union activists, wearing red, marched down the streets of LA in rainy weather on Monday, the protesters demanded a 6.5% pay raise from the authorities.
The protesting teachers also challenged the authorities to “fully staff” schools with librarians, nurses, counselors and other support personnel, and to reduce class sizes. The union also wants assurance that public school funding won’t be affected by privatization.
As against the 30,000 figure given by the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), the police said the estimated number of demonstrators who gathered at Grand Park was about 20,000.
President of the ULTA, Alex Caputo-Pearl justified the reason behind the strike based on the enormous resources the state had.
“Here we are on a rainy day in the richest country in the world, in the richest state in the country, in a state that’s blue as it can be – and in a city rife with millionaires – where teachers have to go on strike to get the basics for our students,” he said.

https://educeleb.com/american-teachers-strike-pay-welfarism/

Wow

ASUU mumu don dey worry dem.

Can't believe this. A hole America