Massive popular support for San Francisco teachers in first strike since 1979

On Monday, 6,400 educators walked out on strike against the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), with 10,000 school workers, students, and supporters rallying at Civic Center Plaza, as teachers demand higher wages, fully-funded family healthcare, and increased support for special education, with average teacher salaries at $85,000 and living costs for a family of four at $339,123.
The strike, the city's first since 1979, has garnered significant public support, with hundreds of custodial and food service workers, principals, and administrators joining the picket lines in a sympathy strike, as paraprofessionals earn just over $31 an hour and face skyrocketing housing costs, fueled by a doubling of the city's millionaire population.
San Francisco educators are part of a growing movement in the working class, with 35,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) voting to authorize strike action, and 31,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and healthcare workers across California and Hawaii fighting eroding wages, chronic understaffing, and unsafe patient loads, as quoted by Tatiana, a paraeducator, "It's ridiculous, we're one of the richest cities in arguably the world and we're not paying our educators?"