NEW: Nearly 4,500 San Jose city employees will go on a three-day strike next week, citing chronic understaffing and low pay, the unions representing the workers announced.
The unions and the city have been negotiating for months and the workers have been working without a contract since it expired in late June.
The union says that many departments are understaffed, and the city had around 1,000 open positions at one point this year. Workers from the city have said that many people who work for San Jose end up leaving for another job at a city with higher pay. The decision to strike came after a vote held by the union last week, and was announced Monday at a rally with city workers, representatives of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 21 and the Municipal Employees' Federation-American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local in front of San Jose City Hall.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter.
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