{"id":2674,"date":"2008-05-08T09:46:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T16:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2008-05-08T09:46:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T16:46:27","slug":"los-angeles-janitors-begin-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/05\/08\/los-angeles-janitors-begin-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Janitors Begin Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-050808\/2008_05_08_janitors.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-050808\/2008_05_08_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/www.seiu-usww.org\/assets\/assetcontent\/b1dbda25-ba92-4fa9-b8da-a523c3158a9a\/7f06529a-96fa-4a76-ab16-9dbdaa6fcd1b\/e60ba3c5-a670-4de6-b6a1-708678970f30\/1\/3000_Janitors_Irvine.jpg\" alt=\"Janitors\" \/><em>GUEST: Raphael Leib, organizer with SEIU, Myra Tovias, janitorial worker in downtown Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles janitors launched unfair labor practice strikes yesterday at strategic locations across the county. Hundreds of janitors reportedly walked off the job at about 20 buildings on LA&#8217;s Westside starting last night around 10 pm. The strikes are the result of stalled contract negotiations. Janitors are still working without a contract and have voted to authorize a strike. The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor has already voted to honor picket lines while encouraging members from over 300 unions to support the Justice for Janitors efforts. The workers&#8217; demands are simple: they want fair pay and workplace rights. Meanwhile, janitors in Orange County, who clean large commercial buildings such as the Fashion Island and Irvine Spectrum, has already voted overwhelming to strike. Many of the workers in the Service Employees International Union local 1877 report earnings of only $18,000 a year. Such a salary makes it extremely difficult for janitors to live in and around the areas that they work. The Orange County Labor Federation, like its Los Angeles counterpart, has voted to overwhelmingly honor their picket lines. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seiu-usww.org\">www.seiu-usww.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Raphael Leib, organizer with SEIU, Myra Tovias, janitorial worker in downtown Los Angeles Los Angeles janitors launched unfair labor practice strikes yesterday at strategic locations across the county. Hundreds of janitors reportedly walked off the job at about 20 buildings on LA&#8217;s Westside starting last night around 10 pm. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}