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AFL-CIO

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2010

    Brothers Benny And Nissan Pirian Get One Year In Jail For Underpaying, Overworking Car Wash Employees

    cleancarwashla.org​Brothers Benny and Nissan Pirian, owners of four Los Angeles area car washes, were each sentenced to one year behind bars and ordered to cough up $1.25 million in unpaid wages to 54 workers, according to La Opinion. The duo also received four years probation. All this came ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    Mayor Antonion Villaraigosa, Sen. Barbara Boxer, Richard Trumka At Downtown Labor Rally; Will Tie Up Traffic

    Great labor union mustache on Richard Trumka​The economy sucks. Let's have a rally. Labor unions and Democratic politicians will gather at noon on the south lawn of City Hall. Organizers say they'll draw 2,000 with the help of 50 buses, so unless you want to help the economy by listening to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    Loz Feliz Car Wash Billboard War

    Supporters of a campaign to unionize car-wash workers got a rude surprise this morning. ASteven MikulanVermont Hand Wash Entrance​ billboard they'd paid to put up over Vermont Hand Wash in Los Feliz had been ordered taken down by CBS Outdoor, the billboard's owners. According to Chloe Osmer of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    Los Feliz Car Wash Targeted by Labor

    This Wednesday might not be the best day to have your car washed at Los Feliz's Vermont Hand Wash (formerly known as Hollymont Car Wash.) Tuesdays and Wednesdays tend to be hectic enough at the Vermont Avenue location because they're discounted customer-appreciation days, but tomorrow the business w ... More >>

  • News

    February 21, 2008

    Tasty Comments on Bacon-Wrapped Dogs

    And more from the Weekly's audience

  • News

    February 9, 2006

    Trouble in the Big Purple Trucks

    How SEIU's mobile phone bank and L.A. politicians may have landed on the wrong side of campaign law.

  • News

    January 19, 2006

    Making Those Red States Blue

    Unions look to battleground states — and the South

  • News

    January 19, 2006

    Great Cesar's Ghost

    The UFW has to give it up, and reinvent a culture of organizing

  • Film+TV

    November 17, 2005

    The Plainsman

    George McGovern’s close-up

  • News

    November 10, 2005

    Terminatable

    Beaten by unions and beset by Angelides, Arnold looks shaky for 2006

  • Calendar

    October 20, 2005

    Element of Suspense

    Unions are shaken — and that may affect the vote

  • News

    September 29, 2005

    The Cavalry to the Rescue

    America’s new labor federation means to travel light while rebuilding unions

  • News

    August 18, 2005

    Terms of the Divorce

    California unions try to maintain cohesion even as their movement comes unstuck

  • News

    July 28, 2005

    Breaking Free

    Now or never for American labor

  • News

    July 28, 2005

    End of Solidarity

    The breakup of the union movement takes on a life of its own

  • News

    June 23, 2005

    Laboring to Stay Together

    The odds on the AFL-CIO’s dissolution

  • News

    June 9, 2005

    In Miguel’s Shoes

    Ludlow leaves the council to run L.A. labor

  • News

    March 10, 2005

    Losing Labor’s Power

    What happens to the L.A. labor movement (and local politics) if it splits in two?

  • News

    October 28, 2004

    The Tsunami

    Can the Democratic ground game elect John Kerry — and create an enduring progressive movement?

  • News

    July 8, 2004

    Tense Times at the Inn

    L.A. hotel workers get no vacation from labor strife

  • News

    March 4, 2004

    Surrender at the Supermarket

    The national failure of the grocery workers’ union

  • News

    January 29, 2004

    Left Out

    Missed opportunities in taking back the White House

  • News

    August 14, 2003

    Friend of the Workingman

    They don’t like him and think he’s a loser, but labor’s leaders are down with Gray

  • News

    May 1, 2003

    The Health Plans

    They don’t like him and think he’s a loser, but labor’s leaders are down with Gray

  • News

    March 13, 2003

    Headlong Into a Tar Pit

    Peace movement rumbles on while Bush plans for a long stay in Iraq

  • News

    November 14, 2002

    Powerlines

    Without vision, the party — well, a Senate majority — perishes

  • News

    September 13, 2001

    Calling Adam Schiff

    If the rookie congressman screws around on crucial trade vote, dump him

  • News

    March 15, 2001

    Inn Trouble

    Unions shape new immigrant strategy

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    Vel Avaliente Chicano

    Bert Corona, 1918–2001

  • News

    January 4, 2001

    Junked Workers

    NAFTA’S final test unfolds in Texas

  • News

    December 28, 2000

    Forget Those Supremes!

    Here comes the Democratic majority (both nationally and in L.A.)

  • News

    December 28, 2000

    Flying High

    More money for airport workers

  • News

    July 6, 2000

    Beating Home a Message

    A violent setback for worker rights in Mexico

  • News

    June 22, 2000

    Amnesty!

    Labor leads the battle to grant legal status to millions of America’s — and L.A.’s — undocumented immigrants

  • News

    June 8, 2000

    Clinton's Wedge

    China cracks the Democrats

  • News

    June 8, 2000

    Flying Right

    Anti-union strafing to end at LAX

  • News

    March 30, 2000

    After Seattle

    Free-trade protests coming soon to a city near you

  • News

    March 2, 2000

    Stand Up, Al

    Labor dreams of Gore busting free of Clinton

  • News

    December 9, 1999

    The Battle in Seattle

    World-class protest at trade summit may be turning point in fight against right-wing economics

  • News

    December 2, 1999

    Hollywood a Rustbelt?

    Unions fear job loss — and argue among themselves about how to stop it

  • News

    December 2, 1999

    Reinventing the World

    Seattle summit brings 134 governments and tens of thousands of protesters together — to disagree on the rules of the global economy

  • News

    October 21, 1999

    Al, It’s Not About You

    Labor endorses Gore — for John Sweeney’s sake

  • News

    October 14, 1999

    The New Unionism Finds a Home

    Once the nation’s most anti-union big city, L.A. has now become America’s most dynamic labor town

  • News

    June 3, 1999

    The Inside Scoop on Summer Gigs

    Job programs for the young and inexperienced

  • News

    March 25, 1999

    Where's the Left?

    American liberalism at century's end

  • News

    March 11, 1999

    The Grand Finale?

    The City Council lines up behind the new charter — but that doesn’t mean it has to like it

  • News

    March 4, 1999

    Caretakers Take Charge

    75,000 workers (in 75,000 work sites!) form a union

  • News

    October 8, 1998

    Hall of Fame

    75,000 workers (in 75,000 work sites!) form a union

  • News

    September 24, 1998

    Strawberry Jam

    Grower ploys dash UFW dreams in strawberry fields

  • News

    June 11, 1998

    Famous Victories

    How labor won on Tuesday; how Gray Davis can win this fall

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