The Screen Actors Guild may be hitting the picket lines this summer... but today, it was someone else doing the picketing outside SAG's Miracle Mile headquarters.
About 20 people are picketing this afternoon outside 5757 Wilshire, home to SAG/AFTRA, to protest the treatment of janitors in L.A. county's high-rise office buildings (including that one). Picketers are taking turns on the bullhorn, shouting "Justice for Janitors" in English and Spanish.
The picket is part of SEIU's Justice for Janitors California Contract Campaign 2008, which it says is "the union's largest statewide mobilization effort ever." From the union's handout:
Los Angeles County's high-rise office buildings, owned by commercial real estate giants such as Douglas-Emmett, GE/Arden, Irvine Company, Kilroy Realty and others, depend on hard-working janitors to stay clean and open for business. However, janitors earn wages so low that many cannot afford adequate housing for their families. Some are forced to make impossible decisions between paying the rent or taking their child to the doctor.
At least two of the picketers Thursday were wearing Screen Actors Guild t-shirts.
Contract negotiations continue; on March 28, more than 1,500 janitors and their supporters demonstrated along Wilshire Blvd.
You probably remember the 2000 janitors' strike in Los Angeles, generally considered one of the most successful in recent history.
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