Labor rally set to take place in downtown Los Angeles
Union members and their allies will march Saturday morning in downtown Los Angeles in support of bargaining rights and better-paying jobs. They also plan a rally in Pershing Square.
Demonstrators are to gather outside the Los Angeles Convention Center and begin their march through downtown Los Angeles around 11 a.m. Organizers said thousands of union workers are expected to participate in the "Our Communities, Our Good Jobs" rally. Demonstrators plan to target several employers; among them is the Ralph's supermarket at 9th and Flower streets, because the chain and several others want "Wal-Mart wages" for their workers, according to organizers.
The march is set to end with the Pershing Square rally, where the Grammy Award-winning band Ozomatli is scheduled to perform. The event is sponsored by the Our Communities/Our Jobs Coalition, in association with the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor.
-- Ruben Vives
EDITOR'S PICKS:
march for better pay?!!! excuse me you got the best healthcare benefits and retirement thing going....your bankrupting the state and moving out taxpayers who work in the private sector who are sick of paying for your ways
Posted by: CA is a MESS | March 26, 2011 at 11:48 AM
Oh please ....NAFTA is what ruined it.
We all pay taxes
Posted by: Teri mondor | March 26, 2011 at 12:20 PM
Gee NAFTA has nothing to do with it.
Besides these large corporations can afford to pay a decent living standard.
Posted by: Teri mondor | March 26, 2011 at 12:24 PM
I don't work for free. Every time your children come to the library or you for that matter, I have to provide you with a service. Every time the fire dept. comes to put out a fire and it may be your home, they are providing you a service. When you call the police from preventing someone from killing you, you are provide a service. When you go to the hospital and the nurse in triage is saving your life, you are provided a service. Do you understand? I pay taxes too. The taxes that bailed out Wall St. and the banks. Turn your anger towards them. They created this mess your talking about.
Posted by: monique lusanne | March 26, 2011 at 12:24 PM
@CA is a MESS
Oh yeah, the employee's at Ralph's are bankrupting the state... read the article dude.
Posted by: Jonathan Garcia | March 26, 2011 at 12:27 PM
You can always quit your job and find one with better pay.
If you cannot quit or find one with better pay. Stay where you are keep quiet and please don't show your incompetency.
Just make sure you are efficient and productive before you even carry that sign that says nothing about you.
Posted by: Chillipepper | March 26, 2011 at 12:28 PM
OMG NAFTA is responsible for the union's high pay and pension? I knew it, Mexico and Canada ruined the country. Let's ask them to move somewhere else so we can never have free trade with them ever again.
Terri Mondor, you do realize that imports and trade actually create jobs for America, especially in a racially and socioeconomically diverse place like CA?
The country's managment of the borders is so indecisive that American companies might as well outsource all of their jobs to Mexico. Thusly Mexican citizens can earn a living without hopping the border while American companies save money by bypassing the union and high taxes. Problem solved.
Posted by: XM | March 26, 2011 at 01:03 PM
I have much admiration for demonstrators who stick up for the underdog...the worker. Yes, times are hard and it is hitting everyone from at the top of the ladder on down. However, if you cut the pay of workers you will be paying for what you get...which would be low esteem, low productivity, low sales, low profits margins. This is affecting all levels of society, but the ones that haven't had the pleasure of experiencing the "down on your luck" syndrome are feeling a "crumb" from this cookie and are whining now due to their pockets are not as "plump" as time once had them. We all need to tighten our belts but to slam it on wages after companies started packing up and moving out of the country, is wrong. There are other ways to ensure wages are not hit first...we just need to think of all possible avenues.....thank you...
Posted by: Maria M Cuaron | March 26, 2011 at 04:09 PM
Solidarity among the middle class is needed the rich are playing us like suckers while they rob us blind!
Wake up the top 1 % hold more wealth in this land than half of the entire population of the united states all this while companies like GE pay 0 in taxes that is right 0 !
they actually got a 3 billion dollar refund after we tax payers bailed out there financial wing ! Wake up I want my money back from wall st the unions are being scape goated as well as the immigrants!
Posted by: shadowpark | March 26, 2011 at 04:13 PM
"Besides these large corporations can afford to pay a decent living standard."
You get paid for what you are worth, NOT what you think you can get.
Posted by: Melvin Painter | March 26, 2011 at 04:42 PM
The unions bus in rabble from all over the state. Why is this treated as news?
Posted by: GEAH | March 27, 2011 at 12:06 AM