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“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.

At no time since the 1930s has the need for dedicated organizers been so great.

More than 55,000 striking members of SEIU Local 721 march[ed] on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Los Angeles.

The faculty members joined the Service Employees International Union Local 721 last summer and started negotiating a contract in September. They say the university cut courses without bargaining over the impact on union members.

The roughly 200 teachers from the College of Arts and Sciences started daylong picketing at 7 a.m. Non-tenure track (NTT) faculty members in the University of San Diego’s College of Arts and Sciences, who are members of SEIU Local 721, along with other faculty and students marched through the school during an unfair labor practice strike on Wednesday, May 7, 2025.