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L.A. Watts Times: Smallwood-Cuevas Introduces Legislation to Give Workers Transfer Rights with Chain Store Closures
Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) joined the California Labor Federation, Assemblymember Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles), unions and community-based organizations at a press conference on March 28 at Starbucks to announce their support of SB 627 – the Displaced Worker Transfer Rights Act. Authored by Senator Smallwood-Cuevas, the bill will hold corporate chain employers accountable for using store closures in a discriminatory or retaliatory manner and give the workers preferential transfer options to other store locations.