Curtis Boelke, a mental health practitioner at UCLA and a member of AFSCME Local 3299, said he is striking because of safety concerns due to hospital staffing shortages.

Rosalba Montoya, a member of the AFSCME Local 3299 executive board and a medical assistant at UCLA, said that she is striking because she believes the University has broken the law by raising healthcare costs without negotiating with the union.

At 3 p.m., AFSCME Local 3299 picketers at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center began to pack up.
The union’s leadership said the 2:25 p.m. march was the last of the day.

Dozens of picketers holding megaphones, drums and signs walked up Westwood Plaza to campus from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center around 2:25 p.m.
While walking, they chanted, “What do we want?

Eight of the nine measures on Los Angeles ballots are projected to have passed.
[Related: All LA County, City ballot measures except for Measure G projected to pass]

This post was updated Nov. 8 at 12:26 a.m.
Nine local measures on Los Angeles ballots are projected to have passed.
LA County voters passed Measure A, the LA Times projected.

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Los Angeles voters failed to pass Measure G by a margin of 50.6%, according to the LA Times. Measure G would have modified the LA County Charter to enlarge the LA County Board of Supervisors from five to nine members and create a new executive position elected by constituents rather than appointed by the board.

Los Angeles voters passed Measure FF by a margin of 59.7%, according to the LA Times. Measure FF will allow officers from LAPD, LA World Airports, the Port of LA and the Department of Parks and Recreation to change pension plans from the LA City Employees’ Retirement System, the general plan for municipal employees, to the LA Fire and Police Pension Plan.