![]() ![]() "It's your strength in standing together that's going to ensure the next generation of workers have the ability to live. ![]() "It's going to be a hot labor summer," Lorena Gonzalez, executive secretary of the California Labor Federation, told the crowd. The participating unions represented more than 200,000 workers with collective bargaining agreements also due to expire in 2023, organizers said. On Friday, a few hundred members of unions in the tourism and hospitality industries, teachers, logistics workers and public employees rallied in downtown Los Angeles in a show of unity. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) began a work stoppage on May 2 after failing to reach an agreement for higher wages with media companies including Walt Disney Co (DIS.N), Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) and Warner Bros Discovery Inc (WBD.O). ![]() ![]() LOS ANGELES, May 26 (Reuters) - Unions representing teachers, truck drivers and other workers who will be headed soon to the bargaining table turned out in downtown Los Angeles on Friday to support Hollywood's striking film and television writers. Meyer is credited with bringing specimens of apricots and the wild pears stateside as well as introducing a hardy species of soybean that is still essential to American agriculture today. ![]()
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