Thousands in Los Angeles Unite in Largest Ever Rally to Stop “Walmartization” of L.A. Jobs
Protestors tell Walmart: “L.A.’s future won’t be bought off!”
In the largest-ever protest against Walmart, thousands of Southland residents marched through L.A.’s Chinatown to call for an end to the “Walmartization” of L.A.
Chinatown residents, community organizations, faith and labor leaders, MUSICIANS TOM MORELLO AND BEN HARPER, CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER DOLORES HUERTA, US CONGRESSWOMAN JUDY CHU, L.A. LABOR LEADER MARIA ELENA DURAZO and union workers stood with Walmart associates and warehouse workers to call on the retailer to change the way it treats workers and communities.
Food 4 Less/FoodsCo is still insisting on paying less into our benefit fund 
May 31 was a big day for the United Food and Commercial Workers in Southern California: Local unionists ratified a new contract with the area's big food chains, and Local 770 passed the 100-store organizing mark at CVS, adding 2,000 members.
City Clerk June Lagmay just announced that the proponents of a referendum to undo the Los Angeles City Council ban on medical marijuana outlets submitted enough signatures to force the issue. Or, as Lagmay's office puts it, "has achieved sufficiency."
The Los Angeles City Council first welcomed medical marijuana dispensaries, then tried to regulate them, then tried to ban them. The ban has now been suspended because opponents collected enough signatures to force a ballot referendum to overturn it, leaving the council with this quandary: Should it put the referendum on the ballot and hope to persuade voters to hold fast to a ban (and then figure out a way to enforce it); or should it lift the ban now, obviate the need for the public vote and then get back to the difficult work of drafting an effective and enforceable ordinance that both improves access for the medical patients who were the intended beneficiaries of the original law and protects neighborhoods from over-proliferation of poorly regulated dispensaries?