Several hundred supporters of International Justice for Janitors Day gathered outside South Coast Plaza today for a good old-fashioned Orange County juxtaposition.
Clad in purple t-shirts, and armed with homemade shakers and noisemakers, the group met for a rally followed by a march down Sunflower, past the OC Repertory Theatre, across the bridge over Bristol St., and back to the Plaza parking lot.
The group, comprised of South Coast Plaza janitorial staff and supporters, were rallying in
A couple of days ago, members of the Service Employees International Union (SEUI) Local 1877 who clean offices at Fashion Island and the Irvine Spectrum Center voted overwhelmingly to strike against the two facilities' owner, the mighty Irvine Company. The Orange County Labor Federation is on board with the strike, as is Zeke Hernandez, director of the main Orange County chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens. On Sunday, Hernandez wrote a letter to Irvine Company overlord Donald
Apparently there were 500 of them, a swarm of janitors in purple and yellow t-shirts making their way around the sprawling headache known lovingly as South Coast Plaza. They were scheduled to gather at noon on the corner of Sunflower and Bristol and then march to some undisclosed location and hold a rally. This would be the second march this week, a big gathering of unionized janitors calling for fair wages before next week's negotiations with the notorious B-R-E-N (Don, of Irvine Co.) and to sh
*Update: Illegal deposition excerpts after the jump...Sister Katherine Gray, head of the one of the most socially active and downright grassroots religious orders in the world, really wants the media, her workers and everyone she knows to believe that she and the managers at the multi-million dollar hospital ministry she runs aren't trying to stop their workers from unionizing. The only problem is that those same managers have a bad habit of hiring anti-union firms as consultants and getting cau
The new California Republican Party video at the top says union bosses are coming after your wallet, trying to protect state programs in their interest from budget cuts--even if it means raising your taxes. Among the union thugs the GOP singles out is the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).The new SEIU of California video below that one questions Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzengger's claim to
support "shared sacrifice." The ad points out that the Governor calls
cutting healthca
​Before this evening's Santa Ana City Council meeting, union workers will stage a rally in front of City Hall to draw attention to layoffs they claim will lead to 9-1-1 emergency calls being answered by an electronic menu rather than a live dispatcher.
