On March 26th, "Our Communities, Our Jobs" the largest worker solidarity march, probably in Los Angeles history*, brought together all of L.A. labor, ranging from big unions like SEIU, Teamsters, UFCW, CWA, and Carpenters, to the smaller organizations like the numerous construction unions, Hollywood unions, firefighters, the IWW, worker organizations, community orgs, and unaffiliated allies.
The march went from the convention center to Pershing Square, and stopped at a hotel to support UNITE-HERE organizing there, stopped at a T-Mobile shop to support CWA organizing T-Mobile, stopped at Ralphs to tell the supermarkets to negotiate with UFCW, and stopped at Chase to highlight the causes of this lousy economy.
Estimates on size vary from just under 10,000 (LAPD estimate) to 30,000.
The photos are by Slobodan Dimitrov, reposted with permission. For more photos, go to:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/album.php?id=674880902&aid=344103
* Historically, Los Angeles has been an "open shop" or an anti-union city, unlike San Francisco, which had huge marches and a general strike in 1934.
