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Outrage over UTLA’s voting process and contract terms reverberated among its rank-and-file members and across social media after the teachers strike ended. UTLA ultimately reported 81 percent of its members voted in favor of the new three-year contract, but some say they felt pressured to quickly accept terms that fall far short of what they went on strike for in the first place....

In the first three days of L.A.’s historic teacher strike, the battle over the future of the city’s public schools raged on in competing press conferences, school and LAUSD site picket lines, boisterous rallies — and across social media platforms, where parents and teachers vented frustrations with district leadership....

Tensions over union contract negotiations with Los Angeles Unified School District, mounting since United Teachers Los Angeles announced its intention earlier in December to call a Jan. 10 strike, reached dramatic heights this week as both sides emerged Monday from a seven-hour meeting with only adversarial press conferences to show for it....

Amid the historic decline of organized labor, Los Angeles is at the forefront of a spirited revival....

On most days, a photographer who goes by "Suitcase Joe" spends his spare time — lunch break, before or after work, weekends — documenting the people and culture of Skid Row. Somewhere between photojournalist and artist (with certain appetites of an ethnographer), he captures the casual drama of an extreme environment: quotidian rhythms, granular textures, fleeting emotions. Intimate and raw, his photos often bypass voyeurism in favor of presence, proximity, empathy. It's the kind of image-making you imagine springing from intuitive movement, or patient immersion....

So many ballot propositions, so little time! L.A. Weekly tries to help you sort through the barrage of information so you can decide....