Steven Chung, a former head waiter at Genwa Korean BBQ, poses for a portrait on the same street as the restaurant in Los Angeles in July 2019. And now, as my colleague Jeong Park reports, Genwa’s workers have created what may be the first union ever at a Korean barbecue restaurant. The only thing standing between tyranny of a workplace …
Rebecca Nathan helped organize her former colleagues after she left Genwa. “They have this co-ethnic employee-employer relationship that often undermines the workers’ ability to express their grievances and report abuses,” said Chanchanit Martorell, executive director of the Thai Community Development Center. “We now look forward to the opportunity to work together with the California Restaurant and Retail Workers Union to …
With no salaries for the past three months, an unprecedented crisis is brimming in lives of the teaching and non-teaching staff of 12 Delhi University colleges which are fully funded by the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government. These 12 institutions are Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, Maharishi Valmiki B.Ed College, Maharaja Agrasen College, Shaheed Rajguru College …
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