By Greggory Moore

Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and a Healthy Community is staging a rally today in front of the Hilton Long Beach to protest the April 20 firing of five employees who were participating in a state investigation into whether HEI Hotels & Resorts has been in violation of various tax and labor codes concerning the women's employment at the Hilton Long Beach.

According to the Coalition and to Leigh Shelton of UNITE HERE Local 11, despite doing the same work as other housekeepers at the hotel, the "Hilton 5" were paid via an intermediary agency that provided them with lower wages, no benefits, erratic schedules, and inequitable job demands.

By Eugene Fields

About 50 housekeepers and union supporters staged a demonstration Thursday morning at the Irvine Embassy Suites hotel in support of a state Assembly bill that – if passed – would require hotels to use fitted sheets and provide mops to housekeepers.

Unite Here Local 11, which has about 2,100 members that work at Disney-owned  Paradise Pier Hotel, Grand California Hotel & Spa and Disneyland Hotel, sponsored the demonstration.

LOS ANGELES – As University of California Regents prepare to vote for another tuition hike next week, students and workers gathered July 8, to protest drastic higher education cuts, while corporations like Disney win generous tax breaks.

Students and workers targeted their protest at media CEO Monica Lozano, who is the publisher of La Opinion newspaper and a University of California Regent. As a UC Regent, Lozano has approved seven recent tuition hikes, while simultaneously serving on the Disney corporate board, which last year won millions in potential tax breaks.