Posted on 05/07/2014 4:37:28 PM PDT by mdittmar
With more than a dozen local carwashes now unionized, Los Angeles is leading the way for union carwash workers. The 133 new unionized carwasheros are represented by the United Steelworkers Local 675. The carwash owners where these employees work also have agreed by contract to comply with all labor, health and safety regulations and give their workers a 2% raise. Workers are now able to enforce these working standards by themselves through a grievance procedure.
The California Labor Federation explains why this is such an important step forward:
Unfortunately, carwash employers routinely violate basic labor laws leading to unsafe and unhealthy workplaces for workers and the communities they serve. In March 2008, the Los Angeles Times reported the results of an investigation of the carwash industry, finding that many owners pay less than half of the required minimum wage, and that two-thirds of those inspected by the states labor department since 2003 were out of compliance with one or more labor laws. Although some violations were minor, others were fundamental: underpaying workers, hiring minors, operating without workers compensation insurance, and denying workers meal and rest breaks.
Carwash workers in Los Angeles are overwhelmingly Latino immigrants and their work is very labor intensive. On a typical weekday, a carwash may service up to 500 cars. The workers must work at a fast pace for long periods of time, often drenched in water and exposed to high summer temperatures. In order to wash and clean such a high number of vehicles, carwash employers routinely violate basic labor laws, such as those requiring rest breaks or providing shade and clean drinking water.
See the map below for the new unionized carwashes:
3rd and Olympic? Where do they intersect in LA?
And who is the head of the USWU? Leo Girard?
Uh-oh.
Lots of coin- op car washes out there
a few blocks from Arlington
“The idiots who want amnesty for cheap labor are going to rue the day after they all join unions.”
Yeah, I think that little details escapes some of them; that the reason the labor is cheap now is because they’re illegal. Once they’re “legal,” they can unionize, or at least demand (inflated) minimum wage. And the union bosses are no doubt just waiting to swear in their new union brothers. That will be to the detriment of the current worker-bee union thugs, too.
$175 for base service...and yes, we are ALL SCABS because of the complexity and things we don't understand about soap. /s
Right. Essentially Americans will all be jobless and foreigners will have all the jobs
You know a man of my ability
He should be smokin’ on a big cigar
But till I get myself straight I guess I’ll just have to wait
In my rubber suit a-rubbin’ these cars
Well, all I can do is a shake my head
You might not believe that it’s true
For workin’ at this end of Niagara Falls
Is an undiscovered Howard Hughes
So baby, don’t expect to see me
With no double martini in any high-brow society news
Cause I got them steadily depressin’, low down mind messin’
Workin’ at the car wash blues
Los Angeles Becomes the First City with More Than a Dozen RECENTLY CLOSED Carwashes
There, it’s fixed...
They already have them in gas stations all over. You do have to vacuum the inside yourself though.
Not at 3rd and Olympic. 3rd runs east west, so does Olympic. IIRC that is Olympic and Western.
Go look at a map
OK. Now what? 3rd is now where near Olympic and Western.
Look buddy I worked there for years. 3rd avenue and Olympic. Have a good night
Aha - the Avenues, my bad, sorry - I thought 3rd Street.
Only took me a minute to find it. On the south side of olympic between 3rd and westchester.
Doug it sure was I would go stand near the rinse jets they were just like misters. This was back when you could see and taste the smog
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