In California, thousands of Los Angeles city workers walked off the job for 24 hours Tuesday in the first such strike in four decades, to protest “repeated labor law violations” by their employers. This is city worker Alfonzo Williams.

Alfonzo Williams: “We all do a wonderful job. We’re all needed. We’re all either — we’re essential workers out here, and we worked through the pandemic. We were out here. We never wavered. And so, just bargain in good faith. And that’s all we’re asking. And when you don’t bargain in good faith, this is what happens.”

The one-day work stoppage comes as Hollywood writers and actors remain on strike, and as Los Angeles hotel workers have staged periodic walkouts after their contract expired at the end of June. The hotel workers’ union, UNITE HERE, filed a labor complaint this week, citing a number of violent retaliatory incidents at picket lines perpetrated by hotel security guards.