Thousands of Los Angeles County workers left work and boarded the pickets Tuesday because their union was talking about a new contract that the county failed to bargain quite.

SEIU Local 721, representing approximately 55,000 workers, began a two-day strike Monday night, with social workers, nurses, paperworkers and other public employees. The union said this was the first time that all members of the county's history have joined the strike.

As a result, libraries, non-lactation health clinics and parks have been closed. Public services will be counterattacked more slowly across the county. Wildfire debris removal may be paused.

A group of workers in the SEIU Local 721's iconic Royal Purple T-shirt landed at the county-level administration hall in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday to mark the first day of the strike.

Alliance spokesman Mike Long said 14 members were arrested for refusing to disperse in March after the rally, a strategy designed to highlight the seriousness of the situation.

The strike was driven by 44 alleged violations of labor laws in the county, including retaliation and work that should be filled by union workers, union leaders said. Union members said they were also insulted by salary offered by county officials, who said they could not bear the substantial increase due to a small financial woes.

"Does anyone remember what they tried to give us?" said union head David Green. "Does we get zero?" ”

Los Angeles County CEO Fesia Davenport said county officials have “moved” zero proposals in recent weeks but are cautious about what they can offer.

"We don't want to negotiate ourselves into a structural deficit," Davenport said in an interview Monday. "We want to grab that line."

Otherwise, the county may have to cut positions on the road, similar to what Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass proposed. Last week, Bass released a budget proposal that included 1,650 layoffs to help end employees' deficits that increased by nearly $1 billion to some extent, which led the city to agree to last year.

The county said it is now offering $5,000 in SEIU Local 721 members for the first year of the contract, as well as adjustments to cost of living and additional bonuses.

"In view of the huge budget pressure we face, we think we think it is a fair three-year compensation package," the Davenport office said in a statement.

Steve Koffroth, SEIU's chief contract negotiator, said the county waited until the last minute to respond to the union's first proposal for the new contract. The previous contract expired at the end of March.

“We gave it to them before Christmas and they sat for months,” Kovros told the Hush crowd.

When county officials made the other side, he said: "They brought one."

The county initially said the pay raise this year could not be afforded due to wildfire costs, massive sexual abuse solutions and losses from federal grants. Davenport said the union’s initial salary proposal could have cost the county billions of dollars.

Union members say the county spends too much money on external contract workers instead of filling thousands of vacancies. In December, many spokespersons at the rally noted that the county spent billions on private companies, which amounted to “a pipeline from taxpayers to the private sector.”

The county sees the report as a “misleading and wrong” negotiation strategy.

Union members said the dependence on contractors was particularly evident in health care, saying the vacancy was temporarily filled by high-paying contract workers.

"How would you feel if someone came into your hospital for three weeks and got you four times your salary," said Theresa Velasco, a member of the Alliance Executive Committee.