CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 1, 1997 | JAMES RAINEY and JOSH MEYER, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Los Angeles County child social workers went on strike Tuesday after negotiations with county officials to reduce their workloads and increase their wages broke down. The walkout by most of the union's 3,000 employees was the first in what could be a weeklong wave of strikes by county workers ranging from nurses to librarians to welfare eligibility workers. Those 40,000 workers, represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 660, could begin strikes as early as this morning.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 1, 1997 | JAMES RAINEY and JOSH MEYER, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Los Angeles County child social workers went on strike Tuesday after negotiations with county officials to reduce their workloads and increase their wages broke down. The walkout by most of the union's 3,000 employees was the first in what could be a weeklong wave of strikes by county workers ranging from nurses to librarians to welfare eligibility workers. Those 40,000 workers, represented by the Service Employees International Union Local 660, could begin strikes as early as this morning.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 14, 1997 | JOSE CARDENAS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Sixty-two social workers and 13 supervisors called in sick Thursday to protest an overload of cases which puts foster care children in the Antelope Valley area at risk, a union spokeswoman said. The Lancaster office of the Department of Children and Family Services has 87 social workers and 17 supervisors, said Sarah Bottorff, a two-year social worker and shop steward for Service Employees International Union Local 535. Department supervisors were unavailable for comment.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 25, 1996
A protest by children's social workers against their high caseloads fell short of expectations Tuesday, when only about half the expected number of workers confronted the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors with their complaints.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 10, 1996 | BETH SHUSTER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
In a protest against working conditions, 32 county children's social workers in the San Fernando Valley called in sick Tuesday, leaving supervisors to scramble for replacements to handle emergency abuse calls. The workers, who mainly comprise the emergency response unit at the county Department of Children and Family Services office in North Hollywood, are in the midst of contract negotiations with the county.
NEWS
June 4, 1994 | MICHAEL PARKS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
For six weeks, Israeli women have not been able, except in a few emergencies, to get the official approval required for abortions. Cases of suspected child abuse have gone largely uninvestigated. Judges have been unable to decide child custody in divorces. And the elderly have not been able to get home health care.