About half of the big strikes in the U.S. this year have taken place in California, with the most consequential centered in Los Angeles — now including the strike announced by SAG-AFTRA.
SAG-AFTRA’s national board on Thursday approved a strike action after negotiations with the major studios failed to reach an agreement on a new film and TV contract.
In this season of union resurgence, there are of course many ways in which Southern California is in step with the rest of the country. Low unemployment has emboldened workers of all sorts, while recent inflation makes them anxious to win a big wage advance. More important has been the lingering sense that during the pandemic, workers — “essential” or not — got the short end of the stick when it came to weathering closures, layoffs and dangers to their health.
Some economic issues seem unique to California, however. The exorbitant cost of housing is first and foremost, withspending more than 30% of their income on shelter. “We can’t afford to live in the place that we work,” says Ayden Vargas, who works at the Fairmont Miramar hotel in Santa Monica and commutes all the way from San Bernardino,.
that would open vacant rooms to homeless people and create a fund to assist hospitality workers in need of affordable housing. Owners complain that the union is overstepping its role in collective bargaining, but it was just this kind of ambition that generated mass support for the great industrial unions of the mid-20th century — in steel, auto, electrical products and more — when they won victories not just for equal pay for equal work, but also for pensions, health insurance and vacations.
But economic distress isn’t the whole story either. L.A. was the first great American city where the ethnicity and ideology of top union leadership came to truly reflect the heterogeneous character of its working class and remake the local movement. This took root in the 1990s when Miguel Contreras transformed the Los Angeles Federation of Labor from an institution dominated by white building trades to one representative of the rapidly growing Latino proletariat of the region.
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