Members of Local 11 joined their brothers and sisters from UTLA to demonstrate our support for their contract fight. More than 30,000 people rallied at Grand Park in DTLA, calling on LAUSD to accept a fair contract for teachers, or they will go out on strike on April 14. Also—with so many people around us—we took the opportunity to collect signatures for the Overpaid CEOs initiative. When we fight together, we win!
World Series champs, the Los Angeles Dodgers are scheduled to visit the White House to celebrate their victory with an administration that has been terrorizing immigrant communities across Los Angeles and the country. Being a team with several immigrants and that represents a city of immigrants, we’re asking them not to go!
Several Dodger Stadium workers went outside the Dodger’s Spring Training facility in Camelback Ranch to call on the team to NOT GO TO THE WHITE HOUSE!
“Kurt Petersen, the co-president of UNITE HERE Local 11, the union representing the restaurant’s workers, told LAist they’ve come to an agreement with Hope the Mission so that all the staff who lost their jobs when The Pantry closed will be able to return to their previous positions.”
Union members, clergy, and community leaders joined the workers of the Residence Inn by Marriott Long Beach as they took the brave step of going public and are asking for a fair process to organize to join the union and bring dignity and respect to their workplace.
Click here to see an album of the delegation. ¡Sí se puede!
After nearly 2 years of arbitration, Crews at LAX has been ordered to pay over $1 million to its employees in backpay. According to the contract ordered by the Arbitrator Crews workers wages will rise significantly along with their benefit contributions. Thanks to the perseverance and determination of these workers in their fight for justice and fair wages, they will now benefit from their two year long struggle.
“Workers have seen what ICE agents have done in L.A. over the last year,” Victoria Stahl, a communication organizer with UNITE HERE Local 11, told KTLA. “This demand is to ensure workers are safe, especially with the World Cup coming soon and visitors arriving from around the world. Universal is a major attraction, and workers want protections for themselves and the thousands of guests who visit.”
Click here to tell the managers and their billionaire owners what you think of their cheapness and anti-union campaign.
The so-called Overpaid CEO Tax initiative was announced at a rally outside Elon Musk’s Tesla Diner featuring union workers holding signs that read “Taxing greed to pay for what we need,” and a cartoon cutout of a boss carrying money bags and puffing a fat cigar.
“It’s high time the rich paid more taxes,” said Kurt Petersen, co-president of Unite Here Local 11, which represents airport and hotel employees.
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 the LAX airline catering workers, the demonstration is part of the push to “hold Flying Food Group accountable.”
