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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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What is a Housing "Crisis"?
By Peter Dreier on June 26, 2008
Do we face a housing crisis when home prices are spiraling upward or when they are tumbling downward? Or both?
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Keep LA. Running: 5k/10k Run/Walk
Keep LA. Running, one of the oldest and most popular distance running events in Southern California, has raised over $1,000,000 for its beneficiary charities over the years. The event is organized by the Service Employees International Union Local 721 and benefits several charities and non-profit organizations including: the SEIU Local 721 L.A. County / Special Districts Employees Disaster Relief Fund; the Harbor UCLA Medical Center Neonatal Ward; the Pediatric Oncology Service, Women's and Children's Hospital of LAC + USC Medical Center, and the American Cancer Society.
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Farm Worker Who Died Connected to "Two-Buck Chuck"
from UFW
We told you about the tragic death of 17-year-old Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez who died while laboring in a Stockton area vineyard in 100 plus degree heat. According to a Wednesday AP story, the San Joaquin County Coroner has officially confirmed that Maria died of heat stroke. Maria had been working 8 hours in the blistering heat without shade or sufficient water.
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