Union Members Across Los Angeles React to Trump’s Supreme Court Overturning 40-Year Precedent

Following the Supreme Court Ruling for the Plaintiffs in Janus v. AFSCME, Workers Will Unite at City Hall to Show Solidarity

WHAT: Union Rally in Los Angeles (includes synchronized card display)

WHERE: LA City Hall, 200 N Spring St, South Steps

WHO: Workers and community members represented by CLUE, LA County Federation of Labor, AFSCME District Council 36, SEIU 1000, SEIU 721, Inglewood Teachers Association, ACCE, ELACC, Teamsters 2010, SEIU-USWW, UFCW 770, LA Black Worker Center, SEIU-UHW, UC-AFT, and UTLA

VISUALS: Labor-themed card stunt toward the end of the rally involving workers from a variety of union-represented jobs. Union workers will be available for media interviews. Union members in trade uniforms.

Today, the women and men who keep our Los Angeles communities running will hold a pro-union rally at LA City Hall. Union workers ranging from healthcare providers to teachers to police and firefighters to sanitation workers will wear their uniforms – including scrubs, hard hats, and overalls – at the rally, which will conclude with a labor-themed synchronized card display. They will be joined by faith leaders, residents, and elected officials in a show of unparalleled solidarity to announce that the Los Angeles labor movement will continue to lead the country in building worker power, despite the Supreme Court siding with the plaintiffs inJanus v. AFSCME.

For 40 years, public sector workers who were represented by a union but chose not to be members could pay a “fair share” fee to cover the cost of representation and collective bargaining. This ruling means that unions can no longer even collect that fair share for workers they are legally obligated to represent.

California has the strongest worker protections in the nation, thanks to unions, and the workers of Los Angeles will ensure this latest attack on workers fails.

The Janus v. AFSCME suit was funded by conservative activists and billionaires, including the Koch brothers and American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), who have been attempting for decades to roll back worker protections, and who also fund a pro-mass incarceration, anti-immigrant agenda.

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