With Monday’s looming LAUSD strike, we speak with parents about their plans

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Jan 11, 2019

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With Monday’s looming LAUSD strike, we speak with parents about their plans

Negotiations between the Los Angeles Unified School District and the union, United Teachers Los Angeles, are expected to continue throughout the weekend.

A woman walks across a Los Angeles Unified School District school bus parking lot in Los Angeles, California on January 10, 2019. - A judge has rejected the school district's claim it was not given enough notice of a teacher's strike, allowing the teacher's union to potentially walkout on January 14, 2019 for the first strike in 30 years in the country's second largest school district. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)

Negotiations between the Los Angeles Unified School District and the union, United Teachers Los Angeles, are expected to continue throughout the weekend.

More than 30,000 members of the teacher union are preparing to walk out of their jobs on Monday over pay and class-size issues, among other things. If that happens, it’d be the first LAUSD strike in 30 years. The 1989 strike lasted 9 days.

AirTalk opens up the phones to talk to parents about how they plan to prepare for Monday’s potential strike, and to those who remember the 1989 work stoppage.