WWRC Hits The Streets for May 1 2017
WWRC leaders hit the streets in Los Angeles, Long Beach and Riverside today, standing in global solidarity as workers, immigrants and community members. May Day Los Angeles […]
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Dozens of Cal Cartage Workers Terminated- We Are Fighting Back
This morning,warehouse workers are at the Los Angeles Harbor Commission demanding that California Cartage retain employment for all workers at their warehouse at the port. Cal Cartage appears to be violating the City Service Worker Retention Policy by not keeping workers on the job after changing staffing agencies this Monday. This retaliatory action will not stand. […]
Sign the Petition: No Retaliation at the Port!
This week, on City of Los Angeles property, hundreds of workers who have faced wage theft, health and safety violations, are now facing mass retaliation for organizing. This Friday, April 30, California Cartage is terminating all employees of staffing agency AMR/SSI- including dozens of workers who have actively and publicly spoken up for their […]
Warehouse Workers Protest Retaliation with Strike After Federal Complaint Issued for Retaliation, Terminated Workers Protest
Port of Los Angeles, CA (April 6, 2016) – Warehouse workers for California Cartage at the Port of Los Angeles are on strike for the third time in seven months as retaliation increased at the major warehouse moving goods for companies like Amazon and Lowe’s. Over 200 workers employed through staffing agency AMR/SSI were told […]
Senator Connie Leyva Introduces Legislation on Indoor Heat
California State Senator Connie Leyva has been a friend of warehouse workers from the beginning, when she was leader of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1428. In 2011, she witnessed firsthand the conditions Walmart-contracted warehouse workers face in the Inland Empire, including the severe heat that has led to Cal/OSHA citing facilities in Chino for not having […]
Congressman Mark Takano Supports Eastvale Walmart Warehouse Workers
In Eastvale, California, Olivet International warehouse workers, who move suitcases for Walmart, have been fighting for a safe workplace for over 2 years. Olivet now is trying to push out these workers and replace them with temp workers by cutting their hours, attacking workers’ families by having work schedules that change day to day and trying […]
Indoor Heat Ruling will Help Warehouse Workers Stay Cool
Four years ago, Domingo Blancas fell ill while working on a hot summer day in his warehouse, operated by National Distribution Centers, Inc. (aka NFI) in Chino, CA. He was hospitalized and had to have emergency surgery. Cal/OSHA, which was already investigating the facility after a complaint from WWRC, cited NFI and the temp agency for […]
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Support Cal Cartage Warehouse Workers
My name is Gregario Ceron. I have a family and I have been working at California Cartage, a warehouse in Los Angeles, for 7 years as a forklift driver. We move goods such as televisions, tools, clothes, toys and beer for Amazon, Lowes, Wal-Mart, Miller, Sears and Kmart. After so many years at the warehouse, […]
California Cartage Workers Walkout of Work to Address the Media
California Cartage workers used their lunch break to address supporters and the media as they announced their lawsuit against a web of employers who are committing a egregious workplace violations. After delegation to their supervisor they walked out together as a sign of unity and to show their co-workers that only united will they be […]
