In spirit if not in fact, the narrowly averted strike on the Los Angeles Unified School District this week had its echoes in an L.A. scene from three summers ago.
That year, 2023, was marked by a number of disparate major labor negotiations in and around the city: hotel workers looking for wages that would allow them to live somewhere near their jobs; Hollywood screenwriters, directors and actors worried about the future of their professions; theme park workers grinding out life at $16 an hour and wanting something more.
