You're a union organizer trying to improve the conditions of janitors working at NBC Studios and Universal Citywalk. You hold press conferences and only a few reporters bother showing up. Coverage in the local press is sparse, at best. So what do you do? Why, produce a four-minute video for Youtube. It's part of an ongoing effort by the janitors union - Service Employees International Union Local 1877 - which has gotten support from most of the Hollywood unions. In the video, a Writers Guild organizer is seen addressing the protesters in Spanish. "We have the same employers you do and they don't treat us well either," he said. Here's the video.



Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted
until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.