{"article":{"id":219356,"heading":"EPCC SUPPORTS CALIFORNIA STATE WORKERS PROTESTS","author":"Echo Park Communtiy Coalition","created":"2008-08-09 16:37:22","modified":"2013-11-11 00:54:02","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:54:02","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>EPCC SUPPORTS CALIFORNIA STATE WORKERS PROTESTS <br><br> Los Angeles-   &ldquo;NO TO PAY CUTS!  &ldquo;We work, we sweat, we won&rsquo;t pay your debts!&rdquo;  <br><br> The Echo Park Community Coalition (EPCC ) and the Justice for Filipino veterans (JFAV)  through its Coordinator Arturo P. Garcia, vehemently condemns California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for signing an executive order forcing up to 200,000 permanent state workers to start receiving the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour <br><br> The EPCC further  scores the  governor&rsquo;s executive order that also includes a hiring freeze, no overtime pay and the releasing of contract consultants. (San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 1) . Additionally, the order will lay off 10,300 contract and part-time workers. <br><br> The EPCC also commended State Controller John Chiang, a government official who is in charge of distributing and signing state workers&rsquo; paychecks who refused to comply with the governor&rsquo;s order. <br><br> The EPCC and JFAV joined the militant rally-picket led by the SEIU 1000 and their allies to protest that governor&rsquo;s orders  last Thursday, August 7, 2008 at the Ronald Reagan Federal Building at Spring St. Downtown Los Angeles.. More than 300 state workers and their allies held a two-hour mass action. <br><br> The EPCC solidly stands behind the Service Employees International Union Local 1000 that  have filed a lawsuit challenging the firings. The SEIU and another union have also filed an unfair labor practice complaint alleging that the order is also meant to illegally influence ongoing contract talks. (Associated Press, Aug. 1). Members of the California Attorneys, Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers in State Employment are also filing lawsuits against the state. <br><br> The EPCC believes that pay cuts come at a particularly rough time for workers. As the economic crisis worsens, more workers are losing their homes to foreclosures and food and gas prices continue to rise. Billions of dollars are being wasted on imperialist wars. <br><br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"epcc_la@!hotmail.com","link":"","address":"","phone":"213-241-0906","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"\u201cNO TO PAY CUTS!  \u201cWe work, we sweat, we won\u2019t pay your debts!\u201d \r\n\r\nThe Echo Park Community Coalition (EPCC ) and the Justice for Filipino veterans (JFAV)  through its Coordinator Arturo P. Garcia, vehemently condemns California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for signing an executive order forcing up to 200,000 permanent state workers to start receiving the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour\r\n\r\nThe EPCC further  scores the  governor\u2019s executive order that also includes a hiring freeze, no overtime pay and the releasing of contract consultants. (San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 1) . Additionally, the order will lay off 10,300 contract and part-time workers.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2008\/08\/16a_00056.jpg","filesize":"2.3 mebibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2008\/08\/219356.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2008\/08\/16a_00056.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2008\/08\/16a_00056.jpgthumb.jpg","medium":"\/uploads\/2008\/08\/16a_00056.jpgmid.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}