Twenty of Shoreline Unified School District’s 50 classified employees conducted a wildcat strike—without union authorization—on Monday, leaving some students unable to get to school. 

Six of seven bus drivers called in sick, and the district scrambled to cover duties left unattended by kitchen staff, class aides, maintenance workers and others.

The union representative for the district’s classified employees, Markey Lees, said it was not an organized action. “But I can tell you, there is definitely…