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A three-day general strike that shut down Los Angeles public schools, led by support staff and backed by teachers, ended Thursday, paving the way for students to return to school, but the unresolved labor dispute continues to threaten…

Seventeen-year-old Zoe Garner took the microphone and led dozens of students in a chant on the steps in front of the Los Angeles Unified School District offices.“Hey hey ho ho, Car-val-ho has to go,” he yelled as he moved to the beat,…

Fast food chefs and cashiers. Caretakers. Housewives. Hospital staff. School bus drivers. Custodians. state employees.Workers in all kinds of industries are demanding more wages and benefits to keep up with the rising cost of living…

Carmen Marchany knows that the three-day strike that has shut down Los Angeles public schools is another blow to her already shaky finances. But the special education aide still joined her colleagues on the picket outside South Gate High…

Navigation for News Categories The Reserve Bank is restoring its caution that inflation is too expensive and organizations and employees require to reduce expectations to…

Good morning and welcome to Essential California Newsletter. Is Wednesday March 22.Workers who feed, transport, teach, heal and clean after Los Angeles students launched a historic three-day walkout Tuesday, shutting down the largest…

The latest Southern California storm did not dampen the spirits of more than 300 workers who gathered outside a Van Nuys school bus yard before dawn Tuesday, the first day of a planned three-day walkout.Standing at the edges of the picket…

Office workers at one of the city's newest and tallest skyscrapers panicked Tuesday when they said they felt the building shake.The 1,401-foot-tall building overlooking E. 42nd St. was undergoing maintenance when an elevator failed,…

Two hours before dawn Tuesday, what should have been an empty sidewalk outside the LAUSD Van Nuys bus yard on Roscoe Boulevard was packed with people.Dozens of drivers, who would normally be walking through the gates to their empty yellow…

Workers in the Los Angeles school district, the second largest in the US, say wages are not enough to cover the high cost of living.Tens of thousands of education workers in the United States' second-largest school district, the Los Angeles…