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Union leader fasting outside USC urges council to press university on contract talks
Summary
At public comment, Maria Elena Durazo, president of Local 11, was reported in the ninth day of a water-only fast and speakers asked the council to visit USC’s president to press for resolution of a four-year contract dispute affecting campus food-service workers.
During the council’s public comment period, Christine Chavez Delgado introduced Maria Elena Durazo — identified in the record as president of Local 11, the hotel employees’ union — who was reported to be on the ninth day of a water-only fast to protest prolonged contract talks at the University of Southern California.
Durazo’s statement, read and followed by her remarks,…
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