Arrived safely home late Friday night. Still amazing how long it takes to move across this big country of ours. I guess SEIU (Service Employees International Union) would deem what we did a success. About 3,000 members represented by their Local 721 showed up outside City Hall on Thursday morning for a 2-mile march through downtown L.A. They got lots of great media coverage and blitzed social media with photos and drone videos. At the very least it was a show of force that tells the county the local union is serious about wanting a fair contract and is prepared to strike if needed. If they are pushed to that in May, it'll mean a real loss of public services for Los Angelenos. Everything from hospitals to clean streets to the court dockets would be impacted.
Anyway.
I got a lovely jog in along the Pacific Ocean shore in Santa Monica on Wednesday evening, in addition to that aforementioned L.A. Clippers game on Tuesday. Here are a few photos I took and here's a good look at some of the professional shots the union got of the rally and march.
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| At the Clippers game making what we used to call "the Ryan face." He used to take seflies on red carpets like this when celebrities were in the background. |
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| They hired a sky plane. The message? "LA County: Respect Us, Pay Us, Protect Us!" |
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| At the closing dinner with my PEF colleagues and SEIU Local 721 President David Green. Left to right: Andrew, who organizes the western half of New York for PEF, Green, and Ron O'Bryan, a PEF council leader with Carey's old agency, Office of Information Technology Services. |
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