Boxer, Brown To Attend Labor Day Breakfast
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Southland union leaders will use Labor Day to try to bolster the Democratic Party's statewide ticket and to press their case on behalf of 16 laid-off janitors.
The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor will start its voter mobilization efforts for the November election at its Labor Day breakfast at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, according to Caroline O'Connor, the federation's communications director.
Gubernatorial nominee Jerry Brown and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., will be among seven Democratic Party candidates for statewide office attending the breakfast, where more than 30 elected officials will serve food to about 500 union members, O'Connor said.
Brown, the state's attorney general, will talk about the importance of the November election to working families and the stark differences between him and his Republican opponent, former eBay Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman, O'Connor said.
Following the breakfast, 16 laid-off janitors who worked at two Century City office buildings will join Service Employees International Union President Mary Kay Henry at a news conference at the cathedral.
Henry will deliver the closing remarks at the Archdiocese of Los Angeles' annual Labor Day Mass at the cathedral.
Coadjutor Archbishop Jose H. Gomez will be the principal celebrant, blessing the workers in attendance and discussing workers' rights and living wages, liberalizing immigration laws, economic justice, safe and humane working conditions and civic participation, Todd Tamberg, the archdiocese's director of media relations, said.
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