AFSCME Nurses and
Health Care Professionals
Hit Lomita Albertsons
The South Bay AFSCME Nurses and Health Care Professionals visited their adopted Albertsons store in Lomita this week.
Willie Velasco-Vargas, Larry Rick PA-C, Irma Bermudez RN, Teresa Alcala RN, and MaryAnn Martin RN (pictured above) delivered their letter of support for grocery workers to the store manager. They told him if a strike happens, they will not cross the picket line and they will ask the local community to stand with grocery workers.
For more information on the adopt-a-store program, contact Glen Arnodo at glenarnodo@sbcglobal.net or 213-381-5611 ext. 126.
L.A. Labor Mourns the Loss of
UFW Leader Richard Chavez
Memorial services this weekend
Richard Estrada Chavez was born on November 12, 1929 in Yuma, Arizona to Juana Estrada and Librado Chavez. He passed away on Wednesday, July 27th, 2011, of complications from a leg bypass surgery in a Bakersfield hospital. He was 81 years old.
He was younger brother to Cesar Chavez, and helped to build the United Farm Workers from the ground up. “He was Cesar’s brother and best friend. He was a builder, not only with the buildings he built, but building the foundation for the movement. He will be sorely missed,” said Dolores Huerta, Chavez's longtime parter.
To read Richard Chavez's obituary in the L.A. Times, click here.
Memorial services will be held this weekend in Delano. U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis will be in attendance. For information on the memorial services, click here.
NAACP Delegates March and
Rally with Grocery Workers
More than 700 fill the streets of downtown L.A.
On Wednesday, July 27, more than 700 delegates of the NAACP National Convention, grocery workers, and supporters marched from L.A. Live to the downtown Ralphs grocery store. They told the corporations that own Ralphs, Albertsons and Vons: Do not cut grocery worker pay by 50% just to maintain health care!
NAACP President Benjamin Jealous, SCLC President Reverend Eric Lee, L.A. City Councilmember Herb Wesson spoke along with several grocery workers and labor leaders.
Thanks to SEIU 121 RN nurses for providing first aid and to all of the brothers and sisters in L.A. Labor who marched!
To see a photos from the NAACP march on Facebook, click here.
Hurry up! Get your Tickets for
Union Night at Dodger Stadium!
LA Labor 411 and the Dodgers are teaming up to present UNION NIGHT at Dodger Stadium. Dodgers vs. Astros. Tickets are $20 for seats in Section 6 Infield Reserve. Bring your glove! A free fleece blanket with every ticket sold!
WHEN: Saturday, August 13, 7:00PM
WHERE: Dodger Stadium
To score this incredible dea, contact Allison Mossler at 323.224.4278 or allisonm@ladodgers.com.
Click here to download a flyer.
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