From Thanksgiving to Christmas, while others in Los Angeles celebrated the holidays by eating too much, a group of workers in the San Fernando Valley didn't eat at all. Housed in a motor home and three vans, they went hungry to protest their sudden dismissal by the Price Pfister plant that looms over their makeshift planton. Workers are angry over some 300 layoffs at the plant which have been going on since January of last year. The job losses are a product of the company's decision to shift ever more production to a plant just south of the U.S. border.
More layoffs are a virtual certainty.
But on October 10 they called in about 30 of us, and told us there just wasn't any more work. And no severance. Some of us had spent our lives in that plant. If Servin doesn't find another job soon, he fears he'll lose the house he bought four years ago. At 42 years old, with three children, that's a scary prospect.