Next Order of Business for Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier: Joining the Public Defenders' Picket Line
Attorneys for Neighborhood Defender Service are threatening to go on strike over issues like higher wages and paid health insurance.
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According to court filings, it does appear that State Senator Luis Sepúlveda, the head of the Senate's Committee on the Judiciary, made a formal complaint about a judge who ruled against him. This seems to be....a pretty massive conflict of interest?
Attorneys for Neighborhood Defender Service are threatening to go on strike over issues like higher wages and paid health insurance.
Hundreds of workers and their supporters protested the firings of 47 workers.
The union, which is still without a contract, said a cut of 70 people has made remaining jobs untenable.
Spirits were high at a one-day strike protesting the closure of the Seventh Avenue Starbucks, despite seven arrests and a bleak forecast for the national labor movement.
"I love the work that we do, and I believe in it. But it wouldn't happen without us."