L.A. municipal county employees, represented by SEIU, plan on going on strike tomorrow after their contract expires today and after not having seen a pay increase in over five years. The county has offered a 6% raise over 30 months, which the union says is still a pay cut after the increases in insurance premiums their members would have faced in the proposed contract. The county says that the union is basing the strike on ?postulating a scenario? and that insurance premiums, pay, and other conditions of work are all ?bargaining chips? which are on the table. The county says that in the event of a strike, contingency plans are in place, but also that it is committed to the bargaining process. Several other unions in the county have agreed to the 6% wage increase.
See "L.A. County labor union plans protest as contract expires", Seema Mehta, September 29, 2013