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Local and national news, NPR, things to do, food recommendations and guides to Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland EmpireLAist is part of Southern California Public Radio, a member-supported public media network. For the latest national news from NPR and our live radio broadcast, visitKoreatown provides L.A. diners with a plethora of restaurant choices. But for most Koreatown restaurant workers, those restaurants don’t provide enough pay to afford decent housing.
“The wages issue is crucial there if folks still feel like they have to live in overcrowded housing,” she said.The study follows recent reports of wage theft in Koreatown.a nearly $67,000 fine against Oo-Kook, a Korean barbecue restaurant, for allowing a manager to keep more than $28,000 in workers’ tips. Similar investigations have found
Previous research on L.A. restaurants has found other workers also struggling to keep a roof over their head. The L.A. nonprofit research organization Economic RoundtableMany Koreatown restaurant employees work in full-service establishments, but they say they’re facing the same housing struggles.Sunny Choi has worked as a server in a Koreatown Asian fusion noodle restaurant for about five years. She earns the city of L.A.’s minimum wage of $16.78 per hour plus tips.
UCLA’s Saba Waheed said policy makers seeking to help workers should think creatively about responding to concerns from small, immigrant entrepreneurs. In the weeks following Hamas’ attack in Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel’s declaration of war, many Angelenos with ties to the region are suffering with what they are seeing and hearing from the Middle East. These ripples of devastation felt by all can be defined as something calledI’m back from vacation, but my brain is still in Halloween mode. And nothing screams spooky season quite like scary stories. We want to hear your supernatural L.A.
“It’s overdue, and I say that from my own experience,” said Cynthia Swaminathan, an Irvine mother and attorney who lost her daughter Nina, who was stillborn in 2020.Swaminathan carried her pregnancy to full-term until a day past her due date when she went into labor. But once she and her husband got to the hospital, they learned something was wrong.
In addition, “if there is a mistreatment of the employee because they need the leave, or took the leave, the law does protect against that,” said Juliana Franco, staff attorney for the The new law does not permit an employer to require any documentation of the need for leave, Terman said. If the worker informs their employer that they experienced a reproductive loss, that should be sufficient, and the employer must keep the information confidential, according to the law.
It’s what made her and her husband, Aditya Swaminathan, who’s on the board of Forever Footprints, decide they wanted to do something about the current leave laws, an effort that helped result in the new five-day leave program. If Sim and other workers could have it their way, the Hannam Koreatown location could become the first Korean grocery in the country to unionize.Earlier this month, the National Labor Relations Board counted 65 votes in a union election. More employees voted against a union than for it — by a margin of almost 2 to 1. A final tally is pending, as both sides challenge ballots.
“They just hire an anti-union law firm with anti-union dissuaders, so that they can start dividing the workforce, scaring some of the workers, promoting some of the other workers, bribing some of the other workers with $1 wage increase here and there,” Hernández said. Last month, workers at six L.A. County locations of Boba Guys, based in San Francisco, won their bid to unionize in what is also believed to be a first among boba shops in the U.S.For the last several years, CRRWU has been working with Southern California employees of the Korean air purifier manufacturer Coway.
“I think it will encourage other ethnic supermarkets to organize as well,” said Kent Wong, director of the UCLA Labor Center.“And yet their wages and working conditions are far inferior to those that are enjoyed by the unionized major chains, such as the Ralphs and Vons and Albertsons,” Wong said. Earlier this month, the workers and their supporters went to the 2023 World Korean Business Convention in Anaheim to protest the company’s response to their unionization effort and to face Ha, who was the convention’s chair.
According to Sales, they were part of a crew that came to scout the land and make contact with the indigenous people of California. At the time, the Philippines was a colony of Spain. In the 1960s, suburbs were booming across the U.S., including the Sunbelt cities like Los Angeles. And immigrants wanted in on it.
While it’s true that this level of bloodshed is not new on the world stage, it’s also true that in no time in human history has violence and destruction been recorded and circulated so easily and instantaneously. And that This particular crisis has also become an issue fraught with political and ideological division, only exacerbating stress in social settings and escalating online vitriol in an already painful situation.
“When you actually have elevated cortisol, that triggers a fight or flight response,” he said. “If you utilize your body in such a way that mimics fight or flight, which is basically cardiovascular exercise, that is going to lower that cortisol level and you're going to not suffer the damage that comes from prolonged elevated cortisol.”Many people have the tendency to isolate when feeling overwhelmed, Williamson said.
“People may forget where they placed the keys, as they left the house. Did they lock the door? Do they have to travel back to see if they've let the garage down, and you have a few of those lapses over the course of the day,” he said. If you don’t have religious or spiritual practices, lean in to the things that otherwise bring you purpose of meaning, Williamson said. For some, it may be spending time in nature, doing art, or other activities that elicit a sort of “flow state.”While everyone is experiencing some form of stress and collective trauma related to this crisis, those who are members of the affected communities are likely experiencing a higher degree of despair, Williamson said.
“It is OK to step back and turn off the television without being so removed that you become oblivious to things,” he said. “There's a time to actually step back and let people know that maybe you're taking a bit of a break from actually engaging the content.”he news coming out of the Middle East over the past couple of weeks has been terrifying. It can be hard to keep up with the new headlines of the day or the stuff we see on social media. It’s…. a lot… and it's heartbreaking.
According to United Healthcare Workers West, the union representing the workers, the strike was prompted by the hospital’s “bad faith bargaining and other illegal tactics” following the expiration of their previous contract in August.
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