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Los Angeles Daily News - Angelenos urge City of LA to use budget for housing and unarmed crisis response (5/23/2024)
The Korea Daily - 타운 저소득층 아파트 확대 공청회 (5/1/2024)
The Korea Times - LA시 맨션세 계속 유지해야 / LA must continue to maintain the mansion tax (4/8/2024)
CalMatters - L.A. company hired children to cut poultry with sharp knives, regulator says (12/14/2023)
ABC 7 - Low wages, housing insecurity among issues faced by Koreatown restaurant workers (11/17/2023)
KBS America - 학교에서 마리화나 캔디 나눠줘!...사탕 먹은 학생 병원행 / KBS AMERICA (11/1/2023)
Wage Theft Stories - 20th Century Labor Laws in a 21st Century Economy (Fall 2023)
LA Times - Koreatown grocery store workers protest CEO’s anti-union tactics at conference (10/27/2023)
Daily Bruin - New report reveals struggles of Koreatown restaurant workers (10/26/23)
La Opinion - Trabajadores de restaurantes de Koreatown experimentan pobreza e inseguridad en la vivienda (10/24/2023)
LAist - Koreatown Is An LA Dining Destination. But Most Of Its Restaurant Workers Can’t Afford Adequate Housing (10/24/2023)
The Korea Daily - [UCLA 노동센터 통계보고서] 한인타운 식당 704곳, 종업원은 9700명 / [UCLA Labor Center Statistical Report] 704 Koreatown restaurants, 9,700 employees (10/24/2023)
Chosun Daily - 식당 메카' 한인타운.. 종업원은 '주거난 고통' / ‘Restaurant Mecca’ Koreatown... Employees ‘suffer from lack of housing’ (10/24/2023)
Eater - A Popular LA Korean Barbecue Restaurant Is Fined $66K for Wage Theft (10/19/2023)
The Korea Daily - A Korean union support group was exposed for unfair practices. (10/11/2023)
The Korea Daily - Oo-Kook Korean BBQ in LA fined $66,000 for managers’ illegal tip takings (10/19/2023)
LAist - Koreatown Is An LA Dining Destination. But Most Of Its Restaurant Workers Can’t Afford Adequate Housing (10/24/2023)
LAist - Inside The Tough Battle To Unionize A Korean Grocery For The First Time (10/24/2023)
CalMatters - As more Californians allege on-the-job violations, labor groups say bosses retaliate (9/5/2023)
LA Times - Koreatown workers are fighting for unions. Why do essential workers still lack basic protections? (8/17/2023)
LA Times - A Korean BBQ restaurant now has a union. Supermarkets may be next (7/19/2022)
NBC - What a Korean restaurant worker union win says about future of labor movements (7/8/2022)
Jacobin - LA Korean Restaurant Workers Just Won a Pathbreaking Union Contract (6/6/2022)
LAist - Workers At Genwa Korean BBQ In LA Just Scored A Union Contract, In An Industry First (6/1/2022)
Labor Notes - Pandemic Discrimination Against Asian Americans Has Long Roots (4/12/2021)
The Korea Times - 아시안 차별 방지” 한 목소리 냈다 - 한인회 등 11개 단체 공동성명…가주·LA 범정부 대책 촉구 (05/12/2020)
The Korea Daily - 아시안 인종차별 멈춰라” 11개 한인 단체 촉구 성명 (05/12/2020)
LA Times - Let’s get through the coronavirus era together. Here are some tools (05/04/2020)
Las Vegas SUN - Never forget what quarantine has shown us (04/24/2020)
LAist - Not 'Second-Class Human Beings': Immigrants Sidelined By Coronavirus Get Cash, Community Support (04/20/2020)
California Department of Industrial Relations - California Labor Commissioner's Office Cites Restaurant Owner Over $2 Million for Wage Theft (03/10/2020)
KIWA Press Release - Upscale Korean BBQ Restaurant Genwa Stole Millions from Workers (03/10/2020)
Eater LA - Popular LA Korean Barbecue Restaurant Genwa Fined $2.1 Million for Labor Violations (03/10/2020)
LA Times - The workers who make Korean barbecue possible deserve better (07/29/2019)
Telemundo - Las redadas de Trump empiezan por Florida y California (07/12/2019)
Pacific Standard - The Social Security Administration Has a New Plan to Flag Undocumented Workers to Employers (1/4/2019)
LA Times - Visits by federal immigration authorities are spooking California businesses and workers (02/26/2018)
KPCC 89.3FM - How employers who hire undocumented workers are dealing with uptick in ICE audits and raids.(2/14/2018)
Marketplace - Federal immigration agents say there will be more workplace raids like 7-Eleven (01/25/2018)
Univision - Apoyan a negocios que reciben auditorias de ICE con el objetivo de encontrar indocumentados (1/17/2018)
KCET - Community Activists in Koreatown Fight to Keep ICE Out of Their Neighborhoods- (1/16/2018)
La Opinion - Red de Respuesta Rápida de L.A. evita auditoria de ICE en tienda 7-Eleven- (1/16/2018)
Mundo Hispánico - Plataforma pro inmigración frustra redada en 7 Eleven de Los Ángeles (1/16/2018)
KPCC - Restricted in jails, ICE pursues unauthorized immigrants in workplaces like 7-Eleven (1/16/2018)
The Korea Times - 한인회·민족학교 등 “추방위기 청소년 구제 (11/15/2017)
YTN News - LA한인단체들, 드림법안 통과 위해 ‘지지 서명 운동’ 시작" (11/14/2017)
Radio Seoul - 드림법안 촉구” 한인 단체들 총력전 (11/14/2017)
Radio Korea News- LA 한인단체들 '드림법안' 통과 지지서명 돌입 (11/14/2017)
Korea Daily- 드림법안 반드시 통과돼야 합니다 (11/14/2017)
Univision - Una guía para prepararse por si agentes de ICE llegan al trabajo (07/24/2017)
NBC News- Minimum Wages Tick Up in Many Cities With New Fiscal Year (07/03/2017)
USA Today - Programs Bring Electric Cars to Low-income People (06/20/17)
KPCC - Your Guide to Measure JJJ: How It Might Change LA (10/21/16)
LA Times - L.A. County supervisors approve first stage of major Koreatown development (08/09/16)
LIFT Blog - From Pulling Weeds to Amending the Soil (08/16)
KCRW - Wage theft: Millions stolen, little recovered within the restaurant industry (7/31/2016)
KPCC - LA's Koreatown's about to get even more crowded (04/11/16)
Curbed LA - Koreatown Pushing Back Against Dense and Pricey Developments (04/11/16)
laist - Koreatown Residents Concerned about Hordes of New Development (04/11/16)
Sacramento Bee - New retirement plan will provide financial security to millennials (03/25/16)
La Opinión - Legislatura de California aprueba severas pena por robo de salario (09/11/15)
KPCC - Wage theft enforcement bill approved by California legislature (09/10/15)
Public News Service - Calif. Labor Advocates Rally for Bill to Combat Wage Theft (09/01/15)
LA Times - On giant puppets, injustice, and kimchi (08/01/15)
KPCC - Plans for LA anti-wage theft office are ambitious (07/08/15)
KPCC - State wage theft law would help enforce LA's minimum wage hike (06/03/15)
Hyphen Magazine - The Workers United! Multi-ethnic Solidarity in L.A.'s Koreatown (01/28/15)
LA Weekly - Alexandra Suh - The Labor Advocate Who Took on Urasawa (05/14/14)
Political Research Associates - Dark Money, Dirty War (06/14)
La Opinión - Inmigrante triunfa contra restaurante más caro de LA (07/20/13)
New York Times - At an Upscale Beverly Hills Restaurant, Claims of Underpaying Workers (07/20/13)
La Opinión - Empleados demandan al restaurant más caro de LA (03/16/13)
LA Times - Urasawa, home of $1,111 sushi bill, faces labor-violation fines (03/14/13)