Los Angeles Becomes the First City with More Than a Dozen Unionized Carwashes

AFL-CIO ^ | 5/07/2014 | Kenneth Quinnell

[Milton Miteybad]

The 133 new unionized carwasheros are represented by the United Steelworkers Local 675.

These "carwasheros" are represented by the Steelworkers. OK...what happened to the United Carwashero Workers of America? Why aren't they representing their tradesmen? They gotta have the Steelworkers do it? Because everybody knows the direct connection between guys who operate car washes and the basic steel industry. It's kinda like the connection between any TV program entitled "Housewives of..." and reality.

[nascarnation]

As unions have lost members, they have consolidated. A lot of the United Auto Workers union comprises nurses, teachers, and government clerks.

[narses]

3rd and Olympic? Where do they intersect in LA?

[exit82]

And who is the head of the USWU? Leo Girard?

Uh-oh.

[GeronL]

Lots of coin- op car washes out there

[al baby]

a few blocks from Arlington

[PLMerite]

“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.

[NCDave]

So how much does it cost to get a car washed at a union car wash? And am I a scab if I wash it myself?

$175 for base service...and yes, we are ALL SCABS because of the complexity and things we don't understand about soap. /s

[al baby]

Looks about the same

[GeronL]

Right. Essentially Americans will all be jobless and foreigners will have all the jobs

[Portcall24]

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

[tcrlaf]

Los Angeles Becomes the First City with More Than a Dozen RECENTLY CLOSED Carwashes

There, it’s fixed...

[Hugin]

They already have them in gas stations all over. You do have to vacuum the inside yourself though.

[narses]

Not at 3rd and Olympic. 3rd runs east west, so does Olympic. IIRC that is Olympic and Western.

[al baby]

Go look at a map

[narses]

OK. Now what? 3rd is now where near Olympic and Western.

[al baby]

Look buddy I worked there for years. 3rd avenue and Olympic. Have a good night

[narses]

Aha - the Avenues, my bad, sorry - I thought 3rd Street.

[jim-x]

Only took me a minute to find it. On the south side of olympic between 3rd and westchester.

[al baby]

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