He didn't have the money to send off his mortgage payment last week, after being laid off from his job as a full-time package driver for United Parcel Service of America Inc. in Lancaster. So are thousands of other workers since the International Brotherhood of Teamsters went on strike against UPS at midnight Sunday. In Palmdale, the mercury reached 112 degrees during the fifth day of a heat wave that began Aug. 1. The day's high broke a record of 109 degrees set in 1966. Now in its third day, the strike at United Parcel Services of America Inc. is affecting more than just the delivery company and its employees.
Local businesses say the strike is beginning to touch just about everyone.
The crash killed the pilot and two passengers. Southern California Edison Co. customers also broke a record of their own for electrical use - a record set just a day earlier. If Assembly Constitutional Amendment 27 passes, California would join 19 other states already adopting two-year budgets. Sites were discussed by VA officials and veterans Friday afternoon in a conference room at the state Employment Development Department office on Avenue I in Lancaster. Health care service is set to begin Oct. 1.