Friday: Labor March Could Bring Afternoon Disruptions
Ed Fuentes
A march organized by the United Teachers of Los Angeles passes AT&T's Olive street facility in January.
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — Those whose afternoon path runs through Bunker Hill should be aware that the Communications Workers of America are planning a march on Friday afternoon that will be capped by a protest outside the AT&T offices at 433 S. Olive. The union, which represents 125,000 AT&T employees nationally, is in the midst of national contract talks with the communications company.
The march follows a morning Town Hall at Union Station with new U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. The event, organized by the Veterans Committee of the L.A. County Federation of Labor, will run from 10am to noon.
According to LAPD, the CWA march will start from Union Station and travel south on Los Angeles to Temple, then west to Olive before turning south and ending with a protest outside AT&T. The department expects roughly 500 participants, with traffic impacts and possible street closures.
A flyer for the march lists a 3:30pm finish time.
Brian on April 23, 2009, at 12:03PM – #1
Downtown LA - home to more protests and marches than any other metropolitan city.
Rich Alossi on April 23, 2009, at 12:06PM – #2
^ Except Paris.
Eric Richardson (@blogdowntown) on April 23, 2009, at 12:12PM – #3
Yeah, in France they just go on strike a lot. They don't even necessarily stop working altogether, they just strike.
Brian on April 23, 2009, at 12:47PM – #4
Ha ha, there ya go - Paris :)
LA has to lead the US though.
Rich Alossi on April 23, 2009, at 12:53PM – #5
^ Agreed. I think it's really picked up in the past few years though with the immigrant marches and the Prop 8 marches and the educators' rallies.
steve on April 24, 2009, at 01:28PM – #6
It's going on right now, not the worst rally I have ever seen. But do we really need to have fire sirens blaring through the bullhorns? Say your speech, cheer, no one in the building will care, and repeat as necessary.
Frank Barrett on April 25, 2009, at 08:46AM – #7
It a sad day when those who have worked for many years with the belief and faith that doing a good job and working hard would have a just reward of promises made that a retirement would have a value.
This is to those that have benefited from all the work J.Q Taxpayers have done. What happened to the promises?
It hurts to believe that there are so many that have done so much have no value.