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David Green, president of SEIU Local 721, told LAist that one of the challenges city workers face is chronic understaffing.

“We’re not going to tolerate unfair labor practices during bargaining or at all. We’re fed up,” Valdez said, noting that the union’s members had worked throughout the pandemic to keep the city running. “We have to send a very strong message to the city.”

SEIU Local 721, the union representing city workers including sanitation, traffic officers, heavy-duty mechanics, and sanitation workers are protesting stagnating contract negotiations with L.A. leaders.

At 11 a.m. Tuesday, workers will meet at City Hall for a march and rally, though picket lines will begin as early as 4 a.m.

The union representing workers employed with the city of Los Angeles announced Friday members will head to the picket lines early Tuesday morning for a 24-hour strike to protest what they deemed a refusal to bargain in good faith.

The growing move toward unionization at USC continued this week when the school’s housing workers voted to join SEIU Local 721.

Moorpark’s SEIU Local 721 members will get two raises, with the first bump of 7% taking effect in July.

With SEIU Local 721’s contract set to expire in January, both sides are hoping for an easier path to a new deal.

Picket lines formed again this week outside all the major Burbank and Los Angeles-area studios — though the union employed a different tactic Friday with a “multi-union” rally downtown, where writers were joined by members of IATSE Local 11, AFSCME District Council 36, Teamsters Local 399, Teamsters Local 396, SEIU Local 99, SEIU Local 721, SEIU Local 1000, AFM Local 47 and UTLA.

Members of SAG-AFTRA, IATSE and the Teamsters, along with hotel workers, teachers, SEIU 721, SEIU 1000 and AFSCME joined WGA members in the late afternoon rally at Figueroa and 12th streets near the Convention Center, where the state Democratic Party was holding its annual meeting.