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Ada Briceño, Susan Minato, Kurt Petersen: United front for Unite Here
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 week agoUnite Here Local 11, the politically powerful union representing Southern California hotel workers,...
Column: Three's not a crowd. Meet the co-presidents of the union behind the hotel workers' strike
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 11 months agoAda Briceño, Susan Minoto and Kurt Petersen are co-presidents of Unite Here Local 11. It's believed...
L.A.'s striking hotel workers are being roughed up by employers' security, union says
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 10 months agoFrom left; Eliza Silva, Lorena Ramirez, and Maria Hernandez, hotel workers at the JW Marriott hotel...
Column: The Democratic civil war behind an Anaheim recall election
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoNatalie Rubalcava faces a June 4 recall election, just 18 months after winning her seat on the...
How California made the minimum wage obsolete
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThis fall, California voters will have the chance to set the nation’s highest minimum wage at $18. Congress hasn’t touched the federal minimum wage in...
Column: This 'hot labor summer' is unifying Los Angeles in a way few could have imagined
LA Times via Yahoo News· 10 months agoWhat's happening now feels different. There's a level of cross-union support across radically...
California voters will decide on measure allowing cities to expand rent control in 2024
LA Times via Yahoo News· 11 months agoCalifornia voters will consider an initiative to repeal a major restriction on rent control on the...
'Take your union and shove it.' When your L.A. hotel stay comes with a strike picket line
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 10 months agoHotel Maya, in the foreground with Queensway Bay and Long Beach behind, was one of three hotels...
Column: The legacy — and disappointment — of Katie Porter's Orange County revolution
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 months agoSometimes, the big fish should stay in the small pond to defend the minnows from the sharks. And out...