LAUSD teachers join their aids, janitors and other support staff in their fight for better wages at LA State Historic Park in downtown Los Angeles during the third and final day of the SEIU/UTLA strike on Thursday, March 23, 2023.(Sarah Reingewirtz / MediaNews Group / Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)
In Los Angeles last week, a three-day strike by 30,000 public school custodians, food service workers, bus drivers and teacher’s aides ended with a 30 percent pay increase. Harold Meyerson, editor-at large of The American Prospect, joins the podcast to discuss.
Also: For a century, thousands of young baseball players have lived with low wages, overcrowded housing, and all-night rides in uncomfortable buses in order to play in baseball’s minor leagues, hoping to eventually make it to the majors. Now, their lives are changing because they organized a union. Kelly Candaele and Peter Dreier have more on that story.
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