County officials said the proposed deal with the Service Employees International Union Local 721 would include a $5,000 one-time ratification bonus, a $2,000 bonus in year two, a 2% cost-of-living adjustment in year two and a 5% COLA in year three. The contract would run through June 30, 2028.
“As a union, we will always stand with our immigrant brothers, sisters, and siblings. We will not be intimidated into silence. We will keep showing up. We will keep fighting back,” SEIU 721 said in a statement.
“Tuesday will mark Day 64 that SEIU 721 members have been working without a contract,” according to a statement from Service Employees International Union Local 721, which accuses the county of slow-rolling contract talks.
“We’re here to send a message to the Board of Supervisors in the county that they need to tentatively agree (to) this contract. We need it done, and we waited too long,” SEIU 721 Executive Director and President David Green told City News Service.
Six union members were arrested Tuesday when hundreds of Los Angeles County workers pushing for a new contract packed into the county Board of Supervisors’ meeting in a pre-planned act of civil disobedience.
It’s unacceptable for USD administrators to ignore their obligations under the law, and it gives us little confidence that they’re working with us productively at the bargaining table.
Over the course of the two-day strike, union members picketed in front of hospitals, marching in circles and waving signs that read “WE ARE THE SAFETY NET.”
The march through the streets, over to Fifth and Figueroa, led to an entrance of the 110 Harbor Freeway. This set the stage for their civil disobedience demonstration and sit-in.
