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With Trump vowing deportations, workers in Los Angeles race the clock for a reprieve
1 month ago

With Trump vowing deportations, workers in Los Angeles race the clock for a reprieve

LA Times  

Staff and volunteers at the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance help immigrant workers apply to a federal program that grants temporary work permits for people who are undocumented. Bliss Requa-Trautz, executive director of Arriba, a Las Vegas-based advocacy group, said she warns workers of the risks that come with applying to the deferred action program: Although applications are meant to be …

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Alexandra Suh: Advocate for Koreatown’s immigrant workers
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Alexandra Suh: Advocate for Koreatown’s immigrant workers

LA Times  

For Alexandra Suh, hot labor summer wasn’t a fleeting trend. Suh, the daughter of Korean immigrants, is executive director of the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance, a resource center and advocacy group for low-wage immigrant workers in the bustling, diverse neighborhood just west of downtown L.A. See the whole list Koreatown’s remarkably dense food industry runs on the labor of thousands …

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Low-income workers can get huge tax refunds. This event helps them get the money
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Low-income workers can get huge tax refunds. This event helps them get the money

LA Times  

Volunteer tax preparer Lidia Sebastian helps a client with her taxes at the Koreatown Youth + Community Center. “Maybe I’ll treat myself.” Workers who made less than $63,398 last year may qualify for the federal earned income tax credit, which is one of the government’s largest antipoverty programs. “For some of them, this is essentially the biggest check that they …

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Column: He helped LAUSD’s most ‘invisible’ workers go on strike, but Max Arias isn’t done
1 year, 9 months ago

Column: He helped LAUSD’s most ‘invisible’ workers go on strike, but Max Arias isn’t done

LA Times  

Max Arias, executive director of SEIU Local 99, talks at the union’s offices in Koreatown. “I’m inspired by them,” said Arias, the executive director of Service Employees International Union Local 99. “Max has made us believe in ourselves — and has made others believe in us, too.” The day before the strike began, I met Arias at Local 99’s headquarters …

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Man charged with extorting karaoke bars, hostesses in Koreatown
1 year, 9 months ago

Man charged with extorting karaoke bars, hostesses in Koreatown

LA Times  

An agent with the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control passes a doumi girl while looking for infractions and code violations at Club Skai in Koreatown in Los Angeles. Michael Choi, a special agent for Homeland Security Investigations, identified Cho in an affidavit as a member of the Grape Street Crips, a predominantly Black gang based in Watts’ Jordan Downs housing …

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A Korean BBQ restaurant now has a union. Supermarkets may be next
2 years, 5 months ago

A Korean BBQ restaurant now has a union. Supermarkets may be next

LA Times  

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 …

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Column: He went from Yale to Wall Street to homelessness. Now he’s rising back up
3 years, 8 months ago

Column: He went from Yale to Wall Street to homelessness. Now he’s rising back up

LA Times  

Shawn Pleasants, a graduate of Yale who fell into homelessness, visits the Koreatown encampment where he once lived. “We haven’t treated substance abuse and access to mental health care the same way we would cardiac arrest,” said Sarah Dusseault, a board member with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Agency. The bill argues that such programs operate in 10 countries and …

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