{"id":1993454,"date":"2023-08-07T17:40:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T21:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thousands-of-striking-workers-in-los-angeles-plan-to-shut-down-city-on-tuesday\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T17:42:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T21:42:06","slug":"thousands-of-striking-workers-in-los-angeles-plan-to-shut-down-city-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thousands-of-striking-workers-in-los-angeles-plan-to-shut-down-city-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"LA workers to &#8216;shut down&#8217; city on Tuesday."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthousands-of-striking-workers-in-los-angeles-plan-to-shut-down-city-on-tuesday%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1993454&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Los Angeles Faces Another Strike as Public Service \u2062Employees Prepare to Walk Off the Job<\/h2>\n<p>As Los Angeles grapples with ongoing strikes from\u200c Hollywood creatives and hotel workers, the city is now bracing itself for yet another group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/job-interest-in-twitter-rises-more-than-260-percent-after-elon-musks-takeover-deal\/\" title=\"Job Interest in Twitter Rises More Than 260 Percent After Elon Musk\u2019s Takeover Deal\">employees planning<\/a> to strike \u2062this week.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Los Angeles \u2063Times, \u2064over 11,000 public service employees, including \u2063sanitation workers, mechanics, engineers, and traffic officers,\u200d are set to walk off the \u2064job on Tuesday\u200b for a 24-hour \u2063strike. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-boss-tells-white-house-to-stay-out-of-fight-as-strike-looms\/\" title=\"Union boss warns White House to stay out of impending strike.\">union \u200brepresenting<\/a> these workers hopes that this mass demonstration will effectively &#8220;shut down&#8221; \u200dLos\u200d Angeles.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>&#8220;Our Workers Are Fed Up,&#8221; Says Union Leader<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;The message we&#8217;re sending is that our workers are \u200bjust fed up,&#8221; said David \u2062Green, executive director and president of the Service Employees International Union Local 721. &#8220;They&#8217;ve \u200dreached\u200d a breaking point. And we need these \u200dfolks in the city to come back to the table for the good of the city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>SEIU Local 721 represents over \u206395,000 employees in \u200dSouthern California from various\u200d disciplines, such as foster care, \u200bmental health, and beach\u200d maintenance. This strike will mark the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thousands-of-striking-workers-in-los-angeles-plan-to-shut-down-city-on-tuesday\/\" title=\"LA workers to 'shut down' city on Tuesday.\">major city worker strike<\/a> in over 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Green \u2064hopes that city\u2063 officials\u2062 will finally \u200blisten \u200cto\u2063 their concerns after\u2064 the\u200b union makes its\u2063 point.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>City \u2063Workers\u200b Demand Attention<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Sanitation \u2063alone has over 900 vacancies,&#8221; Green emphasized. &#8220;Unfortunately, some of the people \u200cthat \u2064work in City\u2062 Hall are these out-of-touch administrators. And we&#8217;ve been sounding the alarm for years. So \u2064we&#8217;re saying, come back to the table.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issued a statement ahead of the impending strike, \u2063acknowledging the importance of \u200dcity workers and their impact on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brian-kolfage-one-florida-school-combated-covid-by-going-back-to-normal-as-a-result-the-children-and-teachers-are-safe-and-happy\/\" title=\"Brian Kolfage: One Florida School Combated COVID By Going Back to Normal \u2013 As a Result the Children and Teachers Are Safe and Happy\">local economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Mayor Bass Stresses Fair \u2063Contracts<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;City workers are vital to the function of services for millions of Angelenos\u200d every day and to our local economy. They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thousands-of-los-angeles-city-workers-to-strike-vow-to-shut-city-down\/\" title=\"LA City workers plan to strike, aiming to \"shut down\" the city.\">deserve fair contracts<\/a> and we have been bargaining in\u2064 good \u200cfaith with SEIU 721\u200d since January,&#8221;\u200c Bass said. &#8220;The City will always\u2062 be available to make\u2064 progress 24 hours a \u2063day, 7 days a week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The union plans to return to the bargaining\u200b table with city administrators on August 14 to\u200c negotiate new contracts on behalf of employees. In the meantime, picket lines are expected to \u200dform as early as 4 a.m. on \u2064Tuesday, with workers gathering at City Hall for a march and rally at\u200b 11\u200d a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood strike, \u2063involving\u200b professional screenwriters \u200cand actors, has been ongoing for three months, while hotel workers in Los Angeles and the larger Southern California area are now entering their second month without work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">CLICK HERE TO\u2064 READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Los Angeles Times, as Hollywood creatives and hotel workers strike, Los Angeles will witness another group joining the protest. On Tuesday, around 11,000 public service employees, including sanitation workers, mechanics, engineers, and traffic officers, are set to walk off the job for a 24-hour strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1993455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}