Over 11,000 L.A. workers plan to strike, hoping to 'shut down' city
City of Los Angeles workers are joining the hotel employees, Hollywood actors and TV and movie writers who have walked off their jobs this summer.
Thousands of them plan to strike Tuesday, potentially grinding municipal operations to a halt for 24 hours and adding to the flurry of organized labor activity across the city and country.
More than 11,000 Los Angeles city employees will participate in the one-day strike, including sanitation workers, Los Angeles International Airport employees and street services, said SEIU Local 172, a union that represents more than 98,000 county and city workers across Southern California.
"We're going to shut down the city of Los Angeles," said David Green, SEIU Local 172 executive director and 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."
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