Evening Edition: Los Angeles School Workers Strike Shutters A Thousand Schools

The Fox News Rundown

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Politics, Daily News, News

3.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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A year-long contract negotiation with Los Angeles school workers that ended in failure is now keeping over a half a million students home from school. It began with the lowest paid workers: custodians, bus drivers, aides and cafeteria workers, but teachers joined the strike in solidarity. FOX's Eben Brown spoke with Kelly O'Grady, FOX Business Correspondent in Los Angeles, about the effects on parents and children when the second largest school district in the United States goes on strike. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Abby Hornacek.
0:01.2	This is Tucker Carlson.
0:02.1	And I'm Jessica Tarlov.
0:03.3	This is the Fox News rundown.
0:08.2	Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023.
0:11.5	I'm Evan Brown.
0:13.2	Schools are closed again in Los Angeles,
0:16.6	not due to bad weather, earthquake, or pandemic.
0:19.8	But because the adults are striking.
0:23.2	The teachers are striking in solidarity with them,
0:25.6	but this is really driven by the service workers.
0:28.2	And the biggest thing that they're looking for is pay increase.
0:31.6	This is the Fox News rundown, the evening edition.
0:39.5	From the Fox News Podcasts Network,
0:41.9	I'm Ben Dominech, Fox News contributor and editor of the transom.com daily newsletter.
0:46.5	And I'm inviting you to join a conversation every week.
0:49.3	It's the Ben Dominech Podcast.
0:51.1	Subscribe and listen now by going to FoxNewsPodcasts.com.
0:54.8	More than 600,000 students of the Los Angeles Unified School District,
1:00.2	the nation's second largest,
1:02.2	are home this week, not because of spring break, not because of COVID,
1:06.6	not because the school is locked.
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