In May, city workers represented by SEIU 721 voted overwhelmingly, with 98% approval, to authorize an Unfair Labor Practice strike — a first by city workers in more than 40 years.
“#HotLaborSummer lives on,” SEIU Local 721 posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “We’re proud to join writers, actors, and our countless other Union siblings striking for respect in Los Angeles.”
Los Angeles City Hall is experiencing a more than 20 percent job vacancy rate across some departments.
Tuesday’s strike is expected to create disruptions at LAX, the Port of Los Angeles, City Hall and other locations.
Union leaders say dozens of locations across the city — Los Angeles International Airport, the Port of Los Angeles and City Hall, to name a few — will feel some effects as union members walk off the job over what they say are unfair labor practices by the city.
Select Los Angeles city services, such as trash pickup and access to public swimming pools, will be unavailable on Tuesday as city workers plan to go on a 24-hour strike.
From the Harbor to the Valley, pickets by the trash haulers, traffic cops, heavy-duty mechanics and engineers will begin as early as 4 a.m. at City Hall and Los Angeles International Airport, among other sites throughout the city.
President of SEIU Mary Kay Kenry expressed a “shut down” of city services and used the term “solidarity summer” to describe the latest strike to be activated in Los Angeles.
Workers, managers and elected officials braced for one of the biggest labor actions to hit Los Angeles city government in a generation — a one-day walkout by the union that represents traffic officers, gardeners, mechanics, custodians, lifeguards, engineers and scores of other government jobs.
La acción del martes sería la primera huelga importante de trabajadores de la ciudad en al menos 15 años.