Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is proposing a city budget of $12.8 billion for the 2024-25 fiscal year – a decrease of $293 million (about 2%) from the current fiscal year as the city grapples with rising labor costs and other expenses, plus lower-than-expected revenues. Despite an overall decrease in planned spending, officials insist the …
By DAVID KOENIG | AP Business Writer DALLAS — The United Auto Workers’ overwhelming election victory at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee is giving the union hope that it can make broader inroads in the South, the least unionized part of the country. The UAW won a stunning 73% of the vote at VW after …
On Friday afternoon, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders joined striking hotel workers in downtown Los Angeles to demand the Hotel Figueroa, and hotels across Southern California, provide better pay and working conditions. “The message from today is we are sick and tired of the greed from corporate America,” said Sanders. “Workers deserve a decent life and …
Student workers and their supporters at Occidental College rally as they launch a union campaign to join SEIU Local 721 at the Eagle Rock school on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. Oxy students say they face low wages, job insecurity and a wage cap. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Students Cole Banks, 19, …
A proposed project that would demolish the iconic Sportsmen’s Lodge hotel in Studio City and replace it with a mixed-use development next to the upscale retail center known as The Shops is one step closer to final approval. The Los Angeles City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management Committee voted 4-0, with Councilmember Imelda Padilla …
After almost 100 years of operation the Radford Studio Center is due for a facelift and on Wednesday, Mayor Karen Bass and union leaders gathered to celebrate a labor agreement for a $1 billion makeover. The remodel will transform one of Los Angeles’ oldest studio lots — which gave Studio City its name — into …
A tentative agreement between the city of Los Angeles and thousands of its employees would result in pay raises totaling about 24% over the next several years if the deal is ratified, according to a coalition of unions that has been negotiating a new contract on behalf of its members. The seven proposed pay raises, …
The Beverly Hilton, Costa Mesa Hilton, Anahiem Hilton and Waldorf Astoria in Beverly Hills are the latest hotels to reach tentative labor agreements with Unite Here Local 11 as a five-month strike involving 15,000 Southland hotel workers drags on. The agreements reached over the weekend place the Hilton alongside the Biltmore Los Angeles, Westin Bonaventure …
In April, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors thought they had required all employers contracted by the county for non-medical hospital personnel to provide employer-paid, healthcare benefits. But as it turned out, due to a loophole, healthcare benefits were not added and in some cases, old contracts were extended without these benefits. Since the …
By TOM KRISHER | AP Auto Writer DETROIT — United Auto Workers union members have voted to approve a new contract with General Motors, making the company the first Detroit automaker to get a ratified deal that could end a contentious labor dispute and a series of crippling strikes. A vote-tracking spreadsheet on the union’s …