Mediator in Southern California grocery labor talks laid off by DOGE

Isael Hermosillo, a mediator negotiating labor contracts for California’s grocers, got bad news in the early hours of March 26, before he even had a chance to drop off his children at school near his Alhambra home.
He got a text from his supervisor asking that he cancel work and jump onto a Zoom call by 9 a.m. That’s when Hermosillo learned that his job and much of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service agency were terminated.
“That was my last day,” said the 13-y