On Saturday, 1,500 SEIU members spread out across Los Angeles going to eight different bad actor corporations where members participated in "flash mobs"- dancing and singing to raise awareness for shoppers and protest the type of corporate greed which wrecked the economy.
Watch a mash-up of the action here.
Here's a look at where SEIU members and community members went on Saturday...
Big banks like J.P. Morgan Chase/Bank of America gambled with and lost the retirement savings of hard-working Californians, like nurses, firefighters, and child protection workers.
Koch Industries led by two billionaire brothers, are using their personal fortune to fund anti-worker front organizations, the Tea Party, and reproducing Wisconsin Governor Walker's campaign against public sector workers and the middle class here in California through the LA-based Reason Foundation. Koch increases profits-and makes average working families pay for it- by eliminating good jobs.
US Bank makes a profit by overcharging single parents and struggling, out-of-work families unfair fees.
Target relies on truck drivers to haul its products, but pays them low wages, doesn't provide healthcare and is preventing them from being able to form a union to improve their lives and working conditions.
Chipotle likes to brag about treating their chickens and vegetables with integrity, but fails to respect their workers. When U.S. Immigration audited their books, Chipotle fired workers without notice and failed to pay workers their last paycheck, as required by law.
PHOTO: Eliseo Medina joined the protest outside a Chipotle in LA as hundreds of SEIU members demanded good jobs and fair treatment for all workers.
CREDIT: David Sachs, SEIU
McDonalds is coming under fire after paying multi-millions in backpay to a class of its own workers who brought suit to secure full payment for all the wages, for fighting against providing adequate health care coverage and for marketing to children nutrition-poor meals that promote weight gain, obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
Prime Healthcare Services has a troubled track record of putting profits over patients and is currently under federal investigation for Medicare fraud. CEO Prem Reddy has laid off experienced caregivers and hurt communities by cutting critical services.
AvalonBay Communities has been plagued with wage and hour issues, accessibility issues and other anti-worker-practices that cheat both workers and taxpayers.
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Afterwards, members met up downtown with more than 30,000 union members, working families, unemployed people, community leaders and others to march and rally for good jobs now.
SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry addressed the crowd outside of a JP Morgan Chase bank and called on Chase and other corporations to step up to the plate and take responsibility for getting our country back to work.
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