By Town Crier Staff Report

“Los Trabajadores” (”The Workers”), a 48-minute film from Austin, Texas, showing the study and resolution there of a day-worker situation similar to that in Mountain View-Los Altos, will be shown and discussed at a public meeting May 17.

Sponsored by the Los Altos-Mountain View chapter of the League of Women Voters, the meeting is scheduled to begin at noon in the meeting room off the central courtyard of Foothills Congregational Church, 461 Orange Ave., Los Altos.

The film shows the life of day workers and how the Austin City Council dealt with their problems.

Los Altos and day workers are currently embroiled in a lawsuit over a no-solicitation ordinance that prohibits motorists from soliciting day workers alongside roads.

Introducing the film and leading the discussion will be John Rinaldi, a longtime Santa Clara County lawyer who has served the Superior Court as judge pro tempore for the past 10 years. He is the immediate past president of the Mountain View Rotary Club. For the past two years, he has served as president of the San Jose Diocese of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a lay Catholic organization devoted to social service.

The public is invited to bring bag lunches, join in the discussion, and share questions and comments.

The League of Women Voters is a nationwide nonpartisan organization that studies and then takes advocacy positions on local, state and federal issues.