LOS ANGELES JANITORS FIGHT FOR THEIR JOBS

David Bacon’s TruthOut Photoessay offers insights on the protest of more than 1400 Los Angeles janitors, members of United Service Workers West SEIU, of the firing of immigrant workers by Able Building Maintenence. The company fired workers whose immigration status the company questions, even though the workers have been cleaning the buildings where they work for years. In protest, workers marched through downtown Los Angeles at lunch hour, stopping in front of buildings where Able has the cleaning contract, and finally sat down in an intersection, stopping traffic.

 
 
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KJ