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    Gustavo Arellano: He helped LAUSD's most 'invisible' workers go on strike, but Max Arias isn't done

    by Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times Mar 23, 2023 6 minutes
    Max Arias, head of SEIU Local 99, is photographed at the union's offices in Los Angeles on March 20, 2023.

    LOS ANGELES — Southern California's latest storm didn't dampen the spirits of over 300 workers who gathered in front of a school bus yard in Van Nuys before dawn on Tuesday, the first day of a planned three-day strike.

    Standing at the edges of the picket line at 4:30 a.m., Max Arias beamed.

    "I'm inspired by them," said Arias, the executive director of Service Employees International Union Local 99. He wore Adidas sneakers, blue jeans and a black hoodie jacket that kept his silver-framed glasses dry from the cold rain pounding down on the picketers. "Once you learn you have power, it's not easy to take it away. They've shut the district down!"

    The union's 30,000 members — Los Angeles Unified School District bus drivers, mechanics, custodians, food workers and others — for a 30% wage increase over four years, plus $2 more per hour for the lowest-paid employees. They make an average of $25,000 a

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