Six union members were arrested Tuesday when hundreds of Los Angeles County workers pushing for a new contract packed into the county Board of Supervisors' meeting in a pre-planned act of civil disobedience.

"Tuesday will mark Day 64 that SEIU 721 members have been working without a contract," according to a statement from Service Employees International Union Local 721, which accuses the county of slow-rolling contract talks.

Public works employees, public and mental health professionals, social workers and other county employees represented by the union presented thousands of handwritten letters at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration in downtown Los Angeles. The union members then swarmed into the Board of Supervisors meeting around 10 a.m., disrupting the session by chanting and c

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