More Than 1,500 Workers Walk Out, but L.A. Copes

The L.A. Times reports:

More than 1,500 Los Angeles city employees walked off their jobs Tuesday, launching the first significant strike of municipal workers in a generation but failing to disrupt daily life across the city.

The Engineers and Architects Assn., whose more than 7,500 members have been working without a contract since 2004, said 3,000 had joined picket lines outside city offices. But Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said at an afternoon news conference that 1,000 workers were picketing and an additional 600 stayed home.


The EAA represents accountants, chemists, forensic scientists and other technical professionals making from $36,000 to $126,000 annually, with an average of $74,500, according to the city.

Aren't government workers special?