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.
Sanitation workers, heavy duty mechanics, traffic officers, engineers and many more city workers, who are represented by SEIU 721, plan to walk off the job.
Los Angeles public employees citing “repeated labor law violations” said they will stop work for 24 hours on Tuesday, adding to strikes in the city by Hollywood writers and hospitality workers.
