John Seeley

The University of California is promising that its sweat shirts won‘t be made in sweatshops anymore -- nor will team uniforms, T-shirts, mugs or other merchandise sporting the name or logo of any UC campus or sports team. This is the goal, at least, of a new code of conduct......

A Staples Center concessionaire and its 300 fast-food workers are at odds over a contract, eight months before the opening of the Democratic convention. Ogden Entertainment’s dispute over wages and benefits is the first labor-management strife at the $400 million sports and entertainment complex, where promises to be a “union-friendly”......

Unionized janitors have persuaded many of their employers to clean up their acts for the new millennium and start providing health coverage. Officials of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1877, a.k.a. Justice for Janitors, say almost 5,000 members and about 20,000 dependents will receive full family coverage under new......

More than half a century after the blacklist hit Hollywood, shattering many careers and dispersing much filmland talent to unemployment, exile abroad or even jail, a memorial to its victims has been inaugurated at the University of Southern California. The commemorative sculpture garden, unveiled November 17 outside USC’s Fisher Gallery......

The embattled principal at Fremont High School was forced out this week, ending five months of strife that included teachers petitioning for her ouster and a walkout by 3,000 students upset with campus conditions. The removal of Guadalupe ”Lupe“ Simpson at the South Central school marked the first time the......

L.A. County‘s 75,000 in-home health-care workers provide life-or-death services for the blind and disabled and low-income elderly. They not only cook their meals and clean their rooms but bathe them, give physical therapy, supervise pill taking, and sometimes provide quasi-medical procedures like catheterization. It can involve midnight visits to clinics......

What does Los Angeles Unified School District do when a principal loses control of a campus? The answer: full-time tutoring for the besieged leader. In June, when most of the teachers petitioned to replace John C. Fremont High School principal Guadalupe “Lupe” Simpson, the district sent in Belmont High’s principal,......

If your creaky, barrackslike rental home, surrounded by monotonously similar structures, was pushing its 60th birthday and was haunted by crime problems, wouldn’t you welcome your landlord’s proposal to rebuild with roomier units, better security, a pleasant design and more upscale neighbors? A number of tenants at East L.A.’s Aliso......

Photo by Debra DiPaolo State Senator Tom Hayden’s unsettled plans for where he will greet the 21st century are unsettling the plans — and the nerves — of would-be legislators across the Westside. The peripatetic Hayden, who moved from Santa Monica to Brentwood in 1996 before launching his challenge to......

When eight Assembly Democrats joined a near-unanimous Republican caucus on June 5 to block Assemblywoman Sheila Kuehl’s Dignity for All Students Act (AB 222), a bill to protect gay students from harassment, gay Democrats — and much of the party leadership — reacted with anger. "By voting against this bill,......