Beware of outside agitators!
As reported previously, Long Beach hotel workers have recently protested against low pay and elusive health benefits.  Their complaints are not unfounded: pay in the Long Beach hospitality sector is well below the national average.  The workers are supported by the Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and Healthy Communities–which has argued [...]

…and the sobering implication: if you want to make decent money, don’t work in Long Beach.
Earlier this month, Long Beach hotel workers and community activists held a march to protest low wages and a lack of benefits in the hospitality industry.  The march–organized by the newly-formed Coalition for Good Jobs and Healthy Communities–began at the [...]

Eighty-five years ago, author Upton Sinclair led a free speech fight in San Pedro. Today, it’s remembered as the birth of the Southern California ACLU

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
It was out of the darkness that Upton Sinclair trudged up San Pedro’s Liberty Hill, a tiring climb past an assembly of cheering dockworkers and a squad of [...]

We’re still a few weeks shy of May Day, but labor doesn’t wait: tomorrow will mark the end of Hollywood to the Docks, a 28-mile march from Hollywood to San Pedro in support of the hunt for good jobs within the county. According to the organizers’ own numbers, about 5,000 people are expected to attend [...]

Contract negotiations make Long Beach Yacht Club employees feel like workers again

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
The Long Beach Yacht Club, which first met in 1929 at the city’s Pacific Coast Club, is so old Long Beach that it seems to run on something called noblesse oblige: the French phrase emphasizing the moral obligation of the high [...]

Hard rock mining meets the tender touch
You often hear calls for labor and management to work more closely together– but I’ve never heard anyone suggest they work this closely. The BBC reports:
Australian coal miners are being given lessons in foreplay and the menopause in an attempt to boost productivity.