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#LosAngeles #workers are joining #hotel employees, #Hollywood #actors, TV & movie #writers….
Thousands plan to #strike Tues, potentially grinding municipal ops to a halt for 24 hrs adding to #organized #labor activity across the city & country.
>11k LA employees will participate in the 1-day strike, incl’g sanitation workers, LAX employees & street services, said #SEIU #Local721, a #union that reps >98k workers across S #California.
“We’re going to shut down the city of #LosAngeles,” said David Green, #SEIU #Local721 executive director & president. “The message we’re sending is that our #workers are just fed up. They’ve reached a breaking point. And we need these folks in the city to come back to the table for the good of the city.”
It’s the first #strike of its kind for Local 721 in >40 years, & comes as hundreds of thousands of workers across various sectors recently have #organized strikes, or narrowly avoided them.