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'On Monday we will be ready to strike'
Los Angeles is bracing for a teacher strike, which could affect roughly 480,000 public school students.
On one side is the LA Unified School District; on the other, United Teachers Los Angeles, a union of more than 30,000 members who have been working without a contract for over a year.