Entries by Daria Ovide

FOX 11: Airline catering workers stage protest near LAX

Hundreds of airline catering workers shut down a major entrance to LAX on Monday, blocking Century Boulevard and forcing some travelers to abandon vehicles and walk during one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. Workers allege unsafe working conditions, broken equipment, locked doors that create fire hazards, and unfair wages. According to union leaders representing […]

Thanksgiving Travel Alert: Hundreds of LAX Airline Catering Workers Call on City of L.A. to Hold Serial Lawbreaker Flying Food Accountable

Workers submit CalOSHA complaints alleging unsafe working conditions at Flying Food Group; company has previously been cited for safety and minimum wage violations As tens of thousands of flights were scheduled out of LAX for the Thanksgiving holiday on Tuesday, the workers who prepare, package & deliver meals onto some of those flights called on […]

Local 11 Endorses a Labor Champion for the Environment: Dr. Rocio Rivas for LAUSD Board District 2

Dr. Rivas chairs the Greening Schools and Climate Resilience Committee of the Los Angeles Unified Board of Education, a group that researches and proposes what the District needs to create sustainable, healthy, resilient, and equitable learning environments. What the Committee is doing: Sustainability, Design, and Construction of High Performance Schools Allow Use of Solar Power […]

Fair Games: a New Deal for Our Future

We demand from LA28 and the billionaire companies that will profit off the games: Union jobs that support families and healthy communities with living wages Funding for 50,000 units of housing for working families A moratorium on short-term rentals to protect our homes Safe and dignified treatment of immigrant communities If the IOC, LA28, city […]