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40,000 Airport Security Officers
Join AFGE and AFL-CIO
The Single Largest Union Election in Decades
 
 
After almost a decade without a voice at our nation's airports, 40,000 Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) voted for union representation with the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), AFL-CIO.
"That's right! Now it's time to roll up our sleeves and work even harder make the changes for all TSA Officers. We need this. We deserve this. It's been a long time coming. We will no longer tolerate being treated as the stepchild in Homeland Security!" celebrated Raul Samudio, a TSO at LAX. "I've been here since the beginning in 2002. Now we've got the power and the voice to make it better for all of our brothers and sisters!"
In Los Angeles County, nearly 3,000 TSOs at LAX, Burbank, and Long Beach airports join L.A. Labor.
L.A. Unions Adopt Stores
to Prepare for Grocery Strike
L.A. unions packed the L.A. County Fed's boardroom on Wednesday, June 22 to prepare for a grocery strike. Teresa Paglinawan, a 21 year Albertsons Deli Manager, Rozanne Gonzales, a 30 year Vons Checker, and Adriennce Lavie, a 35 year Ralphs Checker explained how the corporations are trying to force employees to pay up to 33% of their wages to have health care.
Workers from a broad spectrum of industries across Los Angeles County adopted Vons, Albertsons, and Ralphs stores to support grocery workers and their families with whatever it takes.
On Tuesday, June 28, L.A. Labor will rally with grocery workers at all three supermarket headquarters in the L.A. area. Join us!
Rally with Grocery Workers for Health Care Not Welfare
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
10:00AM: Vons Headquarters, 618 Michillinda Ave., Arcadia, CA
12:00PM: Albertsons Headquarters, 1421 S. Manhattan Ave., Fullerton, CA 92831
4:00PM: Ralphs Headquarters, 1100 W Artesia Blvd. Compton, CA 90220
Download the flyer here.
500 Nurses at St. John's
Win Union with CNA-NNU
Last month, after years of efforts to win union representation to improve patient care, 500 registered nurses at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica voted by 64% to join the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA-NNU).
"This was the most wonderful, one of the hardest things I've ever done. It was harder than giving birth, and so worth it," said Saint John's RN Lori Hammond, who addressed the L.A. County Fed's Delegates meeting on June 20 to thank the Fed for its support during the campaign. "The nurses have so much to look forward to. Our future is going to be so bright, for us and for the nurses that follow us for years to come."
Hammond was joined at June's Delegates meeting by two RN colleagues, Jack Cline and Donna Schonlaw. They are three of the original organizing committee members referred to as "The Fabulous Five."
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