Rite Aid warehouse employees will seek support from Senator Feinstein
Labor Desk
July 22, 2009
A delegation of workers and community supporters will visit the West LA offices of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and wealthy investor Jonathan Sokoloff this Thursday morning at 11:00 am to seek justice on behalf of 600 warehouse workers who are employed by the Rite Aid drugstore chain. Management has repeatedly broken the law, violated employee rights, and refused to settle a union contract at the company´s high-desert distribution center in Lancaster, California.
Workers will visit the offices of investor Jonathan Sokoloff who sits on Rite Aid´s Board of Directors and is a managing partner at Leonard Green & Partners, a private equity firm managing $9 billion in assets with significant Rite Aid holdings.
The offices for Mr. Solokoff and Senator Feinstein are both located at 11111 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Los Angeles; Mr. Solokoff´s office is in suite 2000, Senator Feinstein´s office is in suite 915.
Workers will also visit the offices of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein where they have a confirmed appointment at 11:00 am. Senator Feinstein co-sponsored a series of labor law reforms known as the Employee Free Choice Act that would have prevented many of the problems now facing the workers in Lancaster. Yet Feinstein dropped her sponsorship of those reforms this year after an aggressive lobbying effort by big business.
Warehouse workers have been attacked by the company since they decided to form a union three years ago to address a host of problems that have since included illegal firings and layoffs, scorching summer heat and forced overtime that is preventing parents from caring for their children after shift are supposed to end.
Workers will visit the offices of investor Jonathan Sokoloff who sits on Rite Aid´s Board of Directors and is a managing partner at Leonard Green & Partners, a private equity firm managing $9 billion in assets with significant Rite Aid holdings.
The offices for Mr. Solokoff and Senator Feinstein are both located at 11111 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Los Angeles; Mr. Solokoff´s office is in suite 2000, Senator Feinstein´s office is in suite 915.
Workers will also visit the offices of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein where they have a confirmed appointment at 11:00 am. Senator Feinstein co-sponsored a series of labor law reforms known as the Employee Free Choice Act that would have prevented many of the problems now facing the workers in Lancaster. Yet Feinstein dropped her sponsorship of those reforms this year after an aggressive lobbying effort by big business.
Warehouse workers have been attacked by the company since they decided to form a union three years ago to address a host of problems that have since included illegal firings and layoffs, scorching summer heat and forced overtime that is preventing parents from caring for their children after shift are supposed to end.
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