Column: This 'hot labor summer' is unifying Los Angeles in a way few could have imagined
. Union members are so ubiquitous ‘round town that the colors of their T-shirts — Unite Here red, SEIU purple, SAG-AFTRA black — are as much a part of the city’s palette as Dodger blue and USC cardinal and gold. .different. There’s a level of cross-union support across radically different workplaces, along with a knowledge of one another’s respective struggles, that I’ve never seen, or frankly ever thought possible.
Members of Unite Here Local 11 and members of the Writers Guild of America picket together outside the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica on July 13, 2023.United Teachers Los Angeles Vice President Julie Van Winkle and a co-worker received cheers when they joined the SEIU picket line Tuesday morning. “L.A. is at a critical point,” Van Winkle said. “We need a big drastic change, and we can only do that on the streets demanding it together.
Maria Coreas has worked as a city custodian for 21 years. Living in the city “has gotten worse, because our salaries don’t really go up, but the cost of everything does. The bosses have made promises, and they haven’t complied with them. Well, we need to make them comply.” “In my 32 years [of organizing], I have not seen this,” she said. “We have started something for the rest of the nation to follow.”
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