Jury Awards Factory Manager Nghia Tran $5.4 Million for Reporting Sexual...
More than a year after suing his boss, Nghia Tran, the manager of a local manufacturing plant, is now a rich man. A jury in federal court recently awarded him more than $5.4 million in a case where...
View ArticleTrader Joe's Will be Swarmed as Ralphs, Vons, Albertsons Workers Take a Last...
Updated: It's ova. A settlement has been reached, city Councilman Eric Garcetti tweeted. First posted at 7 a.m. Friday Looks like you're going to be shopping at Trader Joe's, the dollar store, and...
View ArticleUnion Workers Picket Hotel Bel-Air, Favorite Haunt of Hollywood Celebrities
Several hundred union demonstrators picketed outside the Hotel Bel-Air this evening, calling on managers to rehire workers who were laid off when the hotel closed for renovations."They say go away! We...
View ArticleW Hotel Hollywood to See 24-Hour Workers' Strike Over Breaks: Sexy Music...
The L.A. hipster is in a bad place right now. Does she join Occupy L.A. and get dirty on the lawn of City Hall or continue to base her activism on the fact that she only wears American Apparel...
View ArticleLAX Contractor to Cut Off Health Care For Pregnant Employee, Other Workers,...
Would you cut off medical benefits for an employee who was already depending on them because she's 6-months pregnant? Maybe it's a little too late to call Grinch on this particular employer, but the...
View ArticleWalmart Aiming For Chinatown in a Los Angeles Hostile to This Big-Box Retailer
Updated at the bottom with Walmart telling us work will begin on the store in summer. Opponents of Walmart vow a "major fight" over the planned market. First posted at 5:44 p.m. Friday. Los Angeles, a...
View ArticleCrew Members on Spike TV's 1,000 Ways to Die Fired for Trying to Unionize
Former employees and union groups have set up a picket line outside the Burbank headquarters of Original Productions, the company behind the shows 'Deadliest Catch,' 'Ice Road Truckers,' and 'Storage...
View ArticleWalmart's Chinatown Plans Decried by Pro-Labor Group
We told you this wouldn't be easy. Even though Walmart appears to have slipped into a Chinatown space that doesn't need the kind of extraordinary City Hall approvals that could have kept it out of...
View ArticleUnited Airlines Pilots Turn LAX Parking Lot Into 'Ghetto' Where They Sleep...
While the Tom Bradley Terminal at LAX undergoes a much-Tweeted-about $1.7 billion supermakeover, a sort of slum is forming in the employee parking lots, says a group of pilots from United Airlines. The...
View ArticleWalmart Protest in Chinatown is Turning Into Walstock Free Concert Featuring...
Walmart has been bracing itself for what union organizers are calling the largest ever protest against the big-box chain, scheduled this weekend. The store even hosted a traditional Chinese lion dance...
View ArticleUnion Fires Back At Riordan Over Pension Proposal, Calls Plan "Mean"
Last night, former Mayor Richard Riordan told the L.A. Weekly that he was about submit papers to start gathering signatures for a charter amendment that would completely overhaul how pensions are doled...
View ArticleWalmart Targeted With Black Friday Protests in L.A. Area
Updated at the bottom with a response from Walmart. As you shop for the deepest discounts tomorrow, beware that you get what you pay for. That's the message from labor organizers, who have targeted...
View ArticlePrescription Drug Crisis in L.A?
Hold on to your meds, people, because L.A. could be in for a prescription drug crisis. Pharmacists at Kaiser Permanente medical facilities in Southern California, which serve 3.5 million people, plan...
View ArticleKaiser Pharmacy Strike On Hold
You were concerned about where to get your drugs, and we're not talking about that guy you text at midnight. We're talking about a threatened work stoppage that would have affected Kaiser's 3.5 million...
View ArticleKaiser Pharmacies Will Remain Open For Business
The threat of a pharmacists' strike at Kaiser Permanente, which serves the health-care needs of 3.5 million Southern Californians, caused a run on drugs in L.A. that resulted in 45 minute waits at some...
View ArticleL.A. Employers Are Keeping Your Cash, City Leaders Say
Two L.A. City Council members say local employers are ripping off local workers, essentially skimming money from their pay at alarming rates. Gilbert Cedillo and Paul Koretz proposed a law yesterday...
View ArticleLabor Union Titan Maria Elena Durazo Leaving L.A. County Fed
Arguably the most powerful unelected official in Los Angeles – Maria Elena Durazo – is stepping down as head of the L.A. County Federation of Labor and taking a job as vice president for immigration,...
View ArticleVideo Game Voice Actors Make $800 a Day, but They Want More
The median individual income in Los Angeles is $27,987. That's not even enough to cover the rent of a mid-range two-bedroom apartment. L.A., however, is a town of haves and have-nots. "The average...
View ArticleEverything You Need to Know About the Looming Writers Guild Strike
A bunch of writers threatening to go on strike probably doesn't rate very high on our list of worries, but maybe it should?
View ArticleThe Battle Over a Proposed Hollywood Hotel Just Got Real Ugly
A union is protesting the construction of a new hotel, claiming its developer is an anti-LGBTQ rights. But their primary demands have to do with workers rights to unionize.
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