I’ve written before in this space on the campaign among the warehouse workers of California’s Inland Empire to join together in unions and achieve the American Dream, so it’s good to see that the Los Angeles Times has taken note of the movement:
The fledgling movement is backed by a coalition of unions with more than 6 million members known as Change to Win. That’s the national labor group that broke with the AFL-CIO in 2005 and includes the Service Employees International Union, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, the United Farm Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, among others…
Nearly 2,900 warehouses of at least 50,000 square feet each dot the Inland Empire. The facilities, which employ nearly 113,000 people, are operated by hundreds of companies, including some of the nation’s largest retailers…
“We’re not expecting to get these workers into the middle class this year, but we think our momentum is growing,” said Nick Allen, campaign coordinator for Warehouse Workers United. “The workers are hungry.”
Read the whole thing, or learn more about the campaign at the Warehouse Workers United Web site.