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To: Alex who wrote (51252)	4/9/2000 7:22:00 AM
From: Richard Mazzarella	Respond to of 116753

Another hedge fund: biz.yahoo.com . We are seeing more and more experimental evidence that nature abhors a vacuum. <VBG>

To: Alex who wrote (51252)	4/9/2000 2:19:00 PM
From: Ahda	Respond to of 116753

We have a shortage of labor right? It is nigh on impossible in my opinion to live decently in LA on these wages. Yet temporary help fills in 5000 people involved here> What am I not seeing. By LEON DROUIN KEITH, Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) - The head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles on Saturday offered to find mediators to help resolve the battle between striking janitors and their employers. In a statement, Cardinal Roger Mahony offered to recommend people who could serve as impartial mediators for the dispute, which has driven thousands of striking janitors into the streets over the past week. "This is exactly what we need," said the janitors' union leader, Mike Garcia. "Someone at the top levels of Los Angeles' power structure to intervene and ask people to come together." Dick Davis, the bargaining coordinator who represents eight of the 18 janitorial services firms that are being struck, was skeptical of Mahony's offer. "I think his eminence ought to spend some time lecturing the union on the subject of violence," said Davis, alleging that in three instances striking workers have assaulted supervisors or temporary workers. None of those incidents resulted in arrests, although more than 20 protesters have been arrested, mostly on charges related to blocking traffic. Garcia, president of Service Employees International Union Local 1877, said up to 5,000 janitors are on strike in Los Angeles. The janitors, who had been making $6.80 to $7.80 an hour, are seeking $1-an-hour raises for each of the next three years. The contractors have offered the majority of the janitors 40-cent-an-hour raises for the second and third year of the contract, with no increases in the first year. Davis said that the companies have been able to continue doing their jobs with temporary workers, employees who did not honor the strike and those who came back after striking.