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Por primera vez en la historia, más de 55,000 empleados del condado de Los Ángeles amenazaron este viernes con irse a huelga.

SEIU 721 provided a large truck and sound system.

With student workers present, bargaining representatives from Occidental and Service Workers International Union (SEIU) Local 721 met for the third time Feb. 11.

Contract negotiations between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 721 non-tenure track (NTT) bargaining team and the University began with a bargaining meeting on Dec. 20, 2024.

SEIU has asked Los Angeles County to allow evacuated public-sector service workers to work remotely, or to pay workers if they can’t make it in.

Labor, faith and social justice organizations such as SEIU 721, SEIU USWW, SEIU 2015, UTLA, CARCEN, Korean Resource Center, ACCE, Community Coalition and many others joined CHIRLA for the march.

In honor of International Migrants Day, local organizations and hundreds of people rallied in downtown Los Angeles in an act of solidarity with immigrants, who fear President-elect Donald Trump’s promised plans for mass deportation.

David Green, president of the Service Employees International Union Local 721, called the outcome a “historic vote” for the county.

The union representing 55,000 L.A. County workers said Tuesday it had reached an agreement with the county, averting a strike that would have shut down many public services.

SEIU union workers and the county of Los Angeles have agreed to go back to the negotiating table, staving off a strike.