Rally held for laid-off Century City janitors | abc7.com

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Rally held for laid-off Century City janitors | abc7.com

CENTURY CITY, LOS ANGELES : A march and rally in support of 16 laid-off janitors wrapped up Thursday in Century City. Police arrested more than a dozen people.

"Hundreds of protestors marched along busy Avenue of the Stars midday, stopping at the corner of Constellation, near the Century Plaza building owned by J.P. Morgan Chase. The demonstrators are upset that 16 janitors were laid off from their jobs. "They're a multi-million dollar company and they're laying off the lowest-paid people in the building," said protestor Terri Green. "The people that clean up behind them. The people that take care of their events, that clean up behind their events, and we just don't think it's fair." In a show of support, dozens of other janitors at Century Plaza walked off the job."
"The SEIU United Service Workers West, the union representing the janitors, says it wants to sit down with J.P. Morgan Chase officials and work something out. "We understand that we're not going to be able to protect all our jobs but we're asking for is sit down and negotiate a reasonable solution," said United Service Workers West Vice President David Huerta. "We're not going to protect everyone, but we should be able to protect some of the folks who are being laid off."

"Police officers kept watch over the demonstration, only moving in and making arrests after more than a dozen people formed a circle and sat in the middle of an intersection, a planned act of civil disobedience. "There were approximately 12 to 15 people in the intersection who sat down. We effected arrests of those individuals."

COMMENT: THIS IS 100% PURE BS*%*@. I WAS FIRED FROM MY JOB IN EARLY 2008. I WAS NOT PART OF A UNION SO NO ONE CAME OUT TO PROTEST ON MY BEHALF.

SINCE WHEN DO IMMIGRANT JANITORS THINK THEY CAN WALK OFF THE JOB EN MASS TO PROTEST THE FIRING OF 16 MEMBERS OF THEIR UNION. BECAUSE THE SEIU WELDS SUCH POWER IN LA?.

THESE ARE UNSKILLED IMMIGRANT JANITORS HIRED BY A CONTRACTOR, NOT JP MORGAN CHASE!

HOW ABOUT 2-3 MILLION PRIVATE SECTOR CALIFORNIA CITIZENS WHO GOT FIRED/ LAID OFF SINCE EARLY 2008. THE SEIU DID NOT COME OUT ON THEIR BEHALF.

SEIU THINKS THEY CAN SIMPLY ORGANIZE A PROTEST IN LA ON BEHALF OF LAID OFF IMMIGRANT WORKERS AND THE WORLD WILL MOVE ON THEIR BEHALF. BS!!

CHEAP IMMIGRANT LABOR IS PLENTIFUL IN LA DUE TO OUR LAX IMMIGRATION LAWS, AND THERE ARE A 100 IDLE RECENT IMMIGRANTS/ILLEGALS/LOWLY UNSKILLED ANCHORS TO TAKE THE PLACE OF EACH LAID-OFF OR FIRED JANITOR IN LA.

THE SEIU AND AFL-CIO HAVE OPENLY COME OUT ADVOCATING OPEN BORDERS, AMNESTY, AND UNRESTRICTED IMMIGRATION. THEY ENCOURAGE AND FOSTER AN ABUNDANT CHEAP IMMIGRANT OVERSUPPLY OF LABOR IN LA/CA WHICH ALLOWS COMPANIES TO HIRE/FIRE AT WILL, KNOWING THERE IS ABUNDANT CHEAP IMMIGRANT LABOR IN CA, WITH MORE STREAMING ACROSS OUR POROUS BORDERS EVERY DAY!!