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AFL-CIO Endorses Obama
With 10.5 million members from every walk of life, the AFL-CIO has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president.
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Prudential Overall Supply Laundry Workers Win Global Settlement Agreement
Prudential Overall Supply laundry workers at seven facilities across Southern California ratified their contract after a long battle with the industrial launderer. The contract raises wages for hundreds of Prudential workers to the ‘living wage,’ an impressive victory after the company had refused or failed to pay workers the wages required by Living Wage Ordinances in Oakland, Los Angeles and San Diego.
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AFSCME Goes on Strike, Rally on Friday
8,500 service workers at the University of California’s ten campus/five medical center system will begin strike picketing in the early morning on Monday, July 14 to mark the beginning of statewide walkout. The workers, who do everything from cleaning and disinfecting hospitals and dorm rooms, to providing cafeteria service to patients and students, to ensuring hospitals and campuses are secure, have been negotiating in good faith with UC executives for almost a year. They have remained deadlocked over poverty wages for months.
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AFTRA Members Ratify Primetime Television Contract
The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) announced July 8th that AFTRA members ratified a new three-year primetime television agreement reached with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) by a 62.4% margin.
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Nurses to Protest Short-Staffing at Northridge, Oxnard Hospitals
Tues., July 1 at St. John’s Regional in Oxnard
Wed., July 2 at Northridge Hospital
Hundreds of Registered Nurses will put down stethoscopes and pick up picket signs next week to underline contract proposals to ease chronic understaffing at major medical facilities serving the San Fernando Valley and Ventura County.
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Win the Fight for Good Jobs
Mark Ridley-Thomas for LA County Board of Supervisors on Nov 4th
Working families throughout Los Angeles have come together to support Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas in the November 4th race to replace current Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite–Burke. >Full Story
Thank You for Doing Your Part!
Over the past several months, voters in our community have told us over and over that they want change. They want to change the way decisions are made - decisions about reopening our hospital and quality healthcare, decisions about making our communities safer, decisions about creating job opportunities for everyone. We saw that need for change at the polls last night when Mark Ridley-Thomas came through as the top vote getter. This is even more remarkable when polling by the Bernard Parks campaign claimed a 20 point lead. Coming from this far behind wasn't easy, but it was all possible because you all came out, phone banked and walked precincts. We know you could have been doing other things on the weekend and after work, but you sacrificed your time with your family to bring about change in our communities. We saw a taste of that last night and we will see it again in November when we elect Mark Ridley-Thomas to the L.A. County Board of Supervisors.
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