The Los Angeles chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA-LA) are marching the picket lines in solidarity with Service Employees International Union Local 99 (SEIU 99) and United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) as they go ON STRIKE from March 21st through 23rd!

After showing up with over 2,000 free tacos at the UNITED FOR LA RALLY on March 15th, we've been heading out to picket lines at schools across LA, offering support, solidarity, hot coffee, empanadas and more!

This Thursday, we're ready to show up at the SEIU99 and UTLA Rally at LA Historic Park at 1PM! Please join us and show our school workers we've got their backs!

Thanks to almost $16,000(!!!) in contributions from across the globe(!!!!) to our Tacos for Trabajadores campaign, we're excited we can pay for taco trucks to distribute free tacos to attendees on the March 23rd rally! If you can help contribute to our food fund, please do! The more we can fundraise, the more tacos we can give out! Every dollar helps!

DSA-LA is proud to support workers and unions in LA fighting for their rights and to protect their communities!

SEIU 99 represents 30,000 LAUSD workers who sell their labor at schools, colleges, and child care centers as teachers’ assistants, playground workers, special education assistants, bus drivers, gardeners, custodians, cafeteria workers, maintenance workers, administrators and early care and education workers.

Despite the Los Angeles Unified School District having a budget of nearly $13.5 billion – the largest school budget in the nation – essential school workers struggle to support their own families on low-wage, part-time jobs. The average annual income of non-teacher school employees is $25,000, which is far below the California Poverty Measure line of $36,900/year for a family of four. That's why they've gone on strike to demand fair pay for fair work!