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At LAANE, we are committed to building a new economy that restores the American dream of fair wages and benefits in return for hard work. We believe that jobs in growing industries which cannot be exported, including those in the fast-growing service sector, must serve as the foundation for rebuilding a strong and vibrant middle class.
LAANE has created an exciting new model for improving the lives of working men and women and building healthy communities. Integrating policy, research, community organizing and communications, we have helped win living wages and better job opportunities for tens of thousands of workers and more sustainable communities for residents throughout the Los Angeles region. More |
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LATEST NEWS
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Airport To Raise Service-Worker Standards
 The Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners approved a policy on Monday aimed at improving contract oversight and training standards for the private companies that hire service workers at LAX. The policy allows airport officials to examine a contractor's training technique, prior experience at major airports More
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Rallying For Benefits, Wages At LAX
 After 20 years of working as a skycap at Los Angeles International Airport, Henry Watts still smiles as he greets people passing through Terminal Two.
Despite the dedication to his job, Watts said he would like to earn a little more money, along with improved health-care benefits that include dental and vision coverage. More
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L.A. Living Wage Law Upheld
 Airport area-hotels have lost their bid to overturn L.A.’s living wage law as the state Supreme Court on Thursday announced it has denied a review of the hotels’ appeal of the ordinance. The Supreme Court decision not to hear the case appears to end the hotels’ year-long effort to overturn the ordinance, which requires 12 hotels along Century Boulevard to pay their workers $9.39 an hour with benefits or $10.64 an hour without benefits. More
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School Board Was Right To Take Stand On L.A. Hotels
 The Los Angeles Unified School District board recently passed a resolution that expresses support for Los Angeles hotel workers and discourages LAUSD staff from booking events in hotels boycotted by local community and labor groups. Los Angeles-area hotels currently being boycotted include the Four Points Sheraton LAX, the Hilton LAX and the Wilshire Plaza. More
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 Port Of Los Angeles Plan Weighs On Shippers
The Los Angeles Harbor Commission on Thursday unanimously approved a clean air plan requiring shipping companies to buy and maintain a modernized fleet of big rigs and employ thousands of independent truckers who currently operate under contract. More
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Group: LAX Hotel Workers Have Lost Millions
 A group seeking to impose a "living wage" on hotels near Los Angeles International Airport is estimating workers there have lost more than $4.6 million over the past 17 months as legal challenges over the issue continue and one hotel has agreed to unionize. The New Century Coalition, which has been behind the effort to get higher wages for workers at the seven LAX-area hotels, was set to formally release its findings today. More
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Los Angeles Labor Ordinance Voided
 A Superior Court judge has struck down a 2005 law passed by the Los Angeles City Council that barred large supermarkets from taking over a store and immediately firing all its workers, an industry group said Tuesday. The ruling was a victory for the California Grocers Assn., one of several business groups that have filed challenges against initiatives backed by the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, a pro-labor nonprofit that pushed the supermarket ordinance. More
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School Board Backs Hotel Boycott 
The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education has approved a resolution that calls for district staff to refrain from holding conferences, professional development seminars and related events at hotels involved in labor disputes with unions. More
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EDITORIAL: Proposal Would Streamline Process, Speed Projects
 As the general superintendent at a major contracting firm that does commercial construction business with the city, I believe Project Labor Agreements are good. Put simply, PLAs require contractors to hire union workers in exchange for guaranteed labor peace, and they are typically negotiated on a project-by-project basis. Alternatively, a policy currently under consideration by L.A. ’s Community Redevelopment Agency would More
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Plan Aims To Gauge LAX's Effect On Area's Air Quality
The Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners unanimously agreed Monday to spend $2.2 million to look at the effect of airport pollution on communities around LAX. The ambitious study, said to be the largest of its kind, will monitor Westchester, El Segundo, Inglewood and Lennox to identify the sources of pollution there and determine how much of it can be attributed to airport activities.
"This is the most comprehensive air quality study that's ever been taken on by an airport in the United States," said Roger Johnson, deputy executive director for environmental services at Los Angeles World Airports, the agency that runs the airport. More |
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Unsafe Trucks Stream Out of L.A.'s Ports
 Miguel had more reason than usual to be anxious as he drove his aging big rig out of the Port of Los Angeles' bustling China Shipping Terminal. By his own admission, his 24-year-old truck was dangerously overloaded. The suspension was shot, the tires nearly bald. Over his CB radio, other drivers barked warnings that the California Highway Patrol had set up several checkpoints nearby."I'm worried," said Miguel, a 47-year-old independent operator who requested anonymity to avoid trouble with the law. More
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A historical novel about the massacre of 18 men, women, and children of coal mining families at a mine owned by the Rockefellers in Colorado in 1914. The book is written in free verse, adding a poetic quality to the prose.
on Century Boulevard on October 25 to raise public awareness of the high risk of injuries for room attendants in L.A.’s booming hospitality industry. 
