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“We have no shortages of challenges ahead,” CSU Chancellor Mildred Garcia said during the symposium. “Persistent opportunity gaps continue to shortchange our students and our state. There is a greater need now, more than ever, to expand access and affordability, to proactively recruit and serve students of all ages and stages. Not only to elevate lives but to power California’s economic and social vitality.
“Across the country, institutions have seen a growth in equity gaps,” Baszile said, adding that much of that is due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the pressure on students to work or take care of their families. The High Desert Water Bank, which is through a partnership with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency , has the capacity to store and withdraw enough water to serve about 210,000 Southern California homes each year.
“Those dry years when we’re asking our Southern Californians to become more efficient in their water use, we’re doing everything that we can and making these investments to adapt,” she said. Current state law allows for five days of bereavement leave in the event of the death of a family member, such as a child, parent, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, or domestic partner.The category includes: failed adoption, failed surrogacies, and failed assisted reproductions, and the law extends to spouses and domestic partners.We’re here to help curious Angelenos connect with others, discover the new, navigate the confusing, and even drive some change along the way.
72% of Koreatown restaurant workers earn low wages , defined as less than two-thirds of the area’s median wage.98% are renters, and only 2% are homeownersHousing costs have been a main concern In interviews for the study, workers told the researchers that their managers frequently withhold tips. One employee said new staffers in their workplace are put “on probation” and do not receive tips during this period. Others described a “half tip” policy designed to punish workers for perceived infractions by withholding 50% of their weekly tips.The researchers behind this study view Koreatown as a unique microcosm of a much larger problem.
Choi says unlike other restaurant employees working multiple jobs to pay rent, she and her husband can afford the $1,500 monthly mortgage on a Harbor City condo they bought 20 years ago. But she said her commute is draining, and living in Koreatown isn’t a financial option. “We want to conserve the mom and pops in the neighborhood while we're getting these bigger businesses coming in,” Waheed said. “How can we make sure that the workers are feeling sustained, that they're protected, and that they can continue to live there?”
Union supporters claim Hannam ran an aggressive anti-union campaign. Ha did not respond to a request for an interview sent through his lawyer at Barnes & Thornburg, who also did not give comment for this story. A manager for the store declined comment, referring questions to the lawyer. Hannam cashier Antonia Gonzalez said regardless of what the outcome of the union election is, she and other workers will keep advocating for worker rights.Both sides have been sparring vigorously over the last year which has protracted the union battle. The union election at Hannam actually took place Aug. 3 in a tent outside the store — nearly three months ago.
Worker support for the union is high, organizers say, but they are running into strong resistance from the employer, which is represented by the same law firm that works with Hannam.Union supporters at Hannam have a notoriously tough adversary in their employer, Kee Whan Ha. Hannam is not the first Koreatown grocery to face a unionization drive. Twenty years ago, the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance tried to organize the Assi market but was unsuccessful.
As Ha posed for group photos with other business leaders, Hannam Chain workers and their supporters lined up behind them and held up fliers with Ha’s face printed on them, demanding he meet with workers. “They couldn’t find her heartbeat, and I had to go through an emergency C-section,” she said. “She had suffered an umbilical cord accident and she died during labor.”Swaminathan said she was able to get bereavement leave through her employer, but knows that’s not always the case for families who’ve experienced a loss.
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