Households with college students at Los Angeles Unified Faculty District faculties will proceed to have entry to free lunch and breakfast throughout a deliberate three-day strike starting Tuesday.
Two dozen grab-and-go areas, mapped on an LAUSD web site, have been arrange throughout the county. Households will have the ability to choose up six meals per pupil on Tuesday between 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. The meals are meant to cowl breakfast and lunch throughout the days that faculties are closed.
The strike is being led by Native 99 of the Service Staff Worldwide Union to protest alleged unfair labor practices by the LAUSD.
The union, which is in search of a 30% pay elevate, represents employees together with bus drivers, custodians, aides and cafeteria staff. Members of United Lecturers Los Angeles are becoming a member of the strike as a present of solidarity.
Starting this college 12 months, all LAUSD college students in grades transitional kindergarten via 12 are supplied free breakfast and lunch via the California Common Meals Program. Café L.A., the meals providers division of LAUSD, estimates that it serves greater than 107 million meals a 12 months.
For a lot of college students, the school-provided meals are the one vitamin they obtain. Greater than 80% of LAUSD college students reside at or beneath the poverty line, in response to the Los Angeles Belief for Kids’s Well being.
The next are the grab-and-go areas to choose up free breakfast and lunch for college students.
