Local News in Brief : Fox Fires 42 in Cafeteria
The overwhelming majority of Twentieth Century Fox’s commissary workers will be fired today, according to the employees’ union, Local 11 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union. Only four of the 46 workers will be kept on, according to Karine Mansoorian, a Local 11 organizer.
Mansoorian and another Local 11 organizer were escorted off the Fox lot in West Los Angeles Thursday by Los Angeles police officers as they were attempting to drum up support for a protest of the firings. Fox spokesman Tomm Carroll said the company called the police after the two organizers had come on the lot “without permission.”
Mansoorian, who argued that she had a right to be on the lot as a union representative, said she had gathered signatures of more than 200 commissary diners protesting Fox’s action.
She said the workers were notified a few days ago that they would lose their jobs when Fox terminates its contract with ARA Services, the commissary’s food services subcontractor.
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