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Tonia McMillian has been a childcare provider for over 20 years. After struggling with the problem-ridden industry for years, she now works with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to help her fellow childcare providers get the legal protections they need...
Koream Journal, News Report, James S. Kim, Posted: Mar 16, 2014
Chung K. Shin was technically never an employee at the port trucking company where he regularly hauled goods out of the Long Beach and Los Angeles ports for two years...
New America Media, Commentary, Li Lovett
In my teens I’d never delivered the paper, flipped a burger, or worked at Walmart...
From a newsletter sent by the LB Coalition for Good Jobs and a Healthy Community
Last week, a four year boycott of the Hyatt Regency Long Beach officially ended when workers voted to have Unite Here Local 11 represent them as a bargaining unit within both Hyatt Regency Long Beach and Hyatt the Pike Long Beach. ..
http://vimeo.com/47271871#at=0
New America Media, Video, Cliff Parker, Jacob Simas // Op-ed: Robert Rooks, NAACP
Fifteen years ago, my graduate school instructor posed a series of questions that still guide me to this day:
If you found yourself in a time warp and living in the Jim Crow era south, would you say and do nothing, as many people did?..
http://vimeo.com/45924260
New America Media, Video, Jacob Simas, Posted: Jul 19, 2012
The Los Angeles area is notorious for the plethora of cars that clog its roads and highways...
BAKERSFIELD– The United Farm Workers celebrated its 50th Anniversary at the Rabobank Convention Center on May 18 to May 20...
“Getting Back To Work: A Summit on Job Creation in Long Beach” was organized to facilitate a conversation on responsible job creation in Long Beach...
Brenda Loya in AFL-CIO Media Affairs sends us this from North Carolina, where she is on a fact-finding trip to witness the brutal conditions endured by tobacco workers...
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