OVER 11,000 city workers in Los Angeles, United States, walked off their jobs and staged a 24-hour strike demanding better pay to offset the rising cost of living.
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) local 721, the largest public sector union in Southern California, said in a facebook post that it staged a one-day walkout over “unfair labor practice.”
The strike disrupted public services, trash cans weren’t emptied, delaying refuse pickup by one day for the rest of the week.
Inflation, soaring prices and a sharp increase in the cost of living were the main causes of the strike.
In recent weeks, the US has seen an unprecedented surge of union activities and strikes across multiple industries.
The early headline-grabbers were the ongoing dual strike of the screen actors guild-American federation of television and radio artists representing about 160,000 actors and workers in television and film and the writers guild of America representing about 11,500 screen writers.
