More than 55,000 Los Angeles County workers are staging a two-day strike over what their union says are labor law violations, disrupting operations in the nation’s most populous county.
Leaders of Service Employees International Union 721, which organized the strike that began Monday, said the workers are protesting LA County’s delay in negotiating a new contract as well as 44 alleged violations they say accumulated during the current bargaining cycle. The union accuses the county of refusing to bargain in good faith, conducting surveillance against union members and contracting out labor reserved for union-represented positions.
LA County disputed the ...