A rally and march will be held in Los Feliz on Monday to coincide with Labor Day, organizers say, to draw attention to long patient wait times, missed diagnoses, neglect and chronic understaffing in patient care.
Organizers said more than 4,000 health care workers will join a rally at Los Feliz Elementary School at 9:00 a.m. before marching with other union members about 800 meters to Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center. I expect that there will be “civil disobedience”.11 am, Renee Saldanha, press
The secretary of SEIU-United Health Care Workers West told the City News Service.
Unions organize rallies and marches.
The Kaiser Permanente union federation is negotiating new contracts with medical institutions to replace those that expire on September 30.
Kaiser Permanente released a lengthy statement on Friday about the negotiations, including: “Despite labor shortages across health care due to the pandemic, we are committed to hiring more than 29,000 new employees in 2022. We are hiring and are progressing at a significantly faster pace in 2023.”
“We believe this is because talented people recognize the value of our current wages and benefits and want to work for Kaiser Permanente,” the statement said.
“Approximately 96% of candidates for positions representing the Coalition accepted our employment offers, well above the industry average.”
Labor Day is also commemorated in Los Angeles County with the 44th Annual Los Angeles/Long Beach Port Workers’ Union Labor Day Parade & Picnic Rally in Wilmington. The theme was “Unions built the American Dream.”
“The American labor movement has helped build and sustain the middle class that sets the standards for wages and benefits in this country,” Coalition Chairman Larry Barragan told the City News Service.
About 5,000 to 6,000 people are expected to attend “the largest Labor Day solidarity parade on the West Coast,” Barragan said.
“One of the driving forces behind the strong participation is that unions are moving forward aggressively this year in negotiations and ongoing strike actions such as the SAG-AFTRA, the Writers’ Union and the Hotel Workers’ Union,” Barragan said. said.
The parade begins at 10:00 a.m. at the intersection of Broad Avenue and E Street, then continues west on E Street to Avalon Boulevard, then north on Avalon Boulevard to M Street, where the “Picnic Rally” takes place. It will end at Banning Park. Starts at noon.
In his Labor Day proclamation, President Joe Biden said, “I have often said that the middle class built this country and the unions built the middle class. On Labor Day, we We celebrate that essential truth and the dedication and dignity of the American worker who drives the nation’s prosperity.
“They built the railroads, highways, and waterways that connected us from coast to coast, created the look and feel of American cities, and were first responders, protecting our communities and families.
“Organized workers go from working eight hours a day and securing overtime pay to mandating standard safety practices in the workplace and obtaining better health care, pensions and other benefits for all workers. It has fundamentally changed the way we live and work in this country, all the way through.”
Labor Day, an annual national holiday honoring the contributions workers make to the strength, prosperity and well-being of their nation, was first celebrated in the United States on September 5, 1882 in New York City.
In 1887, Oregon became the first state to officially recognize Labor Day. By 1894, Labor Day was celebrated in 31 of the then 44 states, after Congress passed legislation designating the first Monday in September a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and its territories. .