{"id":1455,"date":"2007-04-26T09:24:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T16:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2007-04-26T09:26:11","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T16:26:11","slug":"k-towns-assi-market-settles-labor-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/04\/26\/k-towns-assi-market-settles-labor-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"K-Town&#8217;s Assi Market Settles Labor Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2007_04_26_mariscal.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&#038;p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2007_04_26_uprising.MP3&#038;m=1\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwa.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=40% src=\"http:\/\/www.nocturnalguerillatactics.com\/prints\/assi\/assiposter-th.gif\" alt=\"Assi Market\" \/><\/a><em>GUEST: Max Mariscal, former Assi Market worker, and organizer with KIWA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Koreatown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Assi Supermarket agreed to settle a class action lawsuit with former employees for just under a million and a half dollars.  Former workers of Assi Supermarket, one of Koreatown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest community-owned businesses, cited management\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s racial discrimination and unpaid overtime work as the reasons for the lawsuit.  This is the latest news in a campaign for immigrant workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rights that has been ongoing since 2001 when employees first began talks of unionization. A workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 vote to unionize in March 2002 resulted in a disputed tie thus delaying unionization. But workers were still able to organize. With the help of the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA), former employees coordinated a four-year consumer boycott of Assi Supermarket on top of filing suit against the corporation.  With the settlement of the suit, KIWA intends to lift the ban on the market.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwa.org\">www.kiwa.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Max Mariscal, former Assi Market worker, and organizer with KIWA On Tuesday, Koreatown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Assi Supermarket agreed to settle a class action lawsuit with former employees for just under a million and a half dollars. Former workers of Assi Supermarket, one of Koreatown\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest community-owned businesses, cited management\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s racial discrimination and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}