LA Unions Mobilize for Immigration Reform
Neidi Dominguez, Strategic Campaign Coordinator for the CLEAN Car Wash Campaign Forty-six affiliated locals and 14 community organizations participated in the Immigration Committee meeting at the Los County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, on March 14th. The committee has decided to visit...
Sponsor the Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Labor Breakfast and Parade
Happy New Year! Our Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Labor Breakfast and Parade is just around the corner. Tables for the breakfast and full sponsorships are still available! Make your commitment today. For inquiries, sponsorship rates, or to confirm attendance, please contact...
DREAM Students Knock on Doors to Defeat Prop. 32
DREAM students knocked on doors and had face-to-face conversations with registered voters about the urgent need to vote No on Proposition 32 backed by right-wing and anti-immigrant political groups. "If Proposition 32 passes, it will divide unions and DREAM activists and destroy the...
‘Adios Arpaio’ from L.A. to Phoenix
Fifty Los Angeles Dreamers, students and interns traveled to Phoenix, AZ on Friday, September 28 to spend the weekend registering voters as part of the "Adios Arpaio" voter registration drive. They registered over 800 new voters in Maricopa County to help send America's most anti-immigrant...
“This sheep has more rights than a farm worker.”
Groups unite around Gov's vetoes of Trust Act, Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights and farm workers’ heat protection bills Farm workers, domestic workers, day laborers and Dreamers gathered in front of the Ronald Reagan State Building alongside several labor and community organizations,...
50 Los Angeles students and DREAMers head to Phoenix for “Adios Arpaio” voter registration drive
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR SEPTEMBER 28, 2012 Contact: Caroline O’Connor, L.A. County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, 213-400-8401 Volunteers depart Los Angeles Friday, Sept. 28, 8:30AM 50 Los Angeles students and DREAMers head to Phoenix for “Adios Arpaio” voter registration drive On Friday...
LA County Federation of Labor To Support DREAM Students and Young Workers Applying for Deferred Action
For Immediate Release: August 15, 2012 Contact:Sylvia Carranza, 213-381-5611 x128, scarranza@launionaflcio.org or Chloe Osmer, 323-203-5197, cosmer@aflcio.org LA County Federation of Labor To Support DREAM Students and Young Workers Applying for Deferred Action Statement by Maria...
May Day in L.A.– Workers Are Not Garbage!
American Reclamation has public contracts to sort commercial trash for recyclable materials. They treat the immigrants doing that dirty work worse than garbage. Poverty wages. Hazardous working conditions. No benefits. Firings. American Reclamation has turned our recycling symbol into a...
L.A. Labor Joins March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
(L to R) SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Eliseo Medina, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, Reverend Al Sharpton, AFL-CIO Vice President Arlene Holt Baker, Civil & Labor Rights Activist Dolores Huerta, Reverend Jesse Jackson, and L.A. Labor's Maria Elena Durazo leading march on Day 4. Last week,...
International Women’s Day, Housekeepers Demand Hyatt Stop Hurting Women
Photo credit: West Hollywood Patch, March 9, 2012 On International Women's Day, March 8, hotel housekeepers and members of UNITE HERE Local 11 were joined by the National Organization for Women, Stonewall Democrats, and Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE-LA) outside of the...
