You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Submit your comments on this article
-Great Cultural Revolution
LA shutdown looms as more than 11,000 city workers plan to join hotel staff, Hollywood actors, writers who have walked off the job over 'bad faith bargaining' with city hall
2023-08-08
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • More than 11,000 city workers in LA are due to go on strike on Tuesday

  • Their union, SEIU Local 721, accuses City Hall of refusing to bargain in good faith over salaries

  • In striking they would be joining Hollywood actors and writers and hotel workers
Posted by:Skidmark

#10  Purple, even! Twas a memorable moment, though... like a wormhole opening into... well, I'd say "a universe of lousy limericks," but the timeline's wrong.
Posted by: Betty Smith3435   2023-08-08 23:59  

#9  /\ Prose exquise! Please do not be a stranger, but something tells me you are not.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-08-08 22:13  

#8  One fine fall afternoon a while back, after a funeral, as exhausted and depressed as ever I hope to be (in this life, anyway), I found meself strolling past the Old Hancock, a profoundly resonant location for the person buried which, however, meant bitterly little to me.

As I all but crawled across the street, a cheerful young couple foolishly asked me what the fuss was about. What indeed but an SEIU function inside filling the sidewalk and spilling onto Berkeley? And somehow, just like that, I rose up from within meself to deliver, without an instant's thought, the most concise, judiciously vicious explainer imaginable. Where the hell did that come from? They thanked me, showing every sign of complacent agreement -- in Boston? -- and I plodded on, leaving measurably shallower prints in the concrete. Angels, probably. So, um... thanks, SEIU!
Posted by: Betty Smith3435   2023-08-08 21:53  

#7  ^ Yep. I remember. But now there are no businesses in the SF financial district to protest!
Posted by: Secret Master    2023-08-08 20:38  

#6  Ahh yes, the purple shirted goons of SEIU. God, they were a plague of screeching, drumming locusts when I worked the SF biz district.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2023-08-08 16:34  

#5  So that means no garbage pickup?
Well, it was spotty at best anyway.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-08-08 14:48  

#4  ...Gooder and harder, LA.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2023-08-08 14:09  

#3  SEIU specializes in "bad faith bargaining".
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-08-08 13:54  

#2  I guess they still need services as the taxpaying population leaves and is replaced by a larger non-taxpaying population.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-08-08 07:40  

#1  LA & SF are both prime examples of Liberal/Socialist mgt. & Obama's SEIU supporters.

Btw: About 15,000 businesses have closed in LA since 2020.
Posted by: NN2N1   2023-08-08 04:43  

00:00