{"id":248,"date":"2006-03-15T09:23:50","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T17:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=248"},"modified":"2006-03-15T09:23:53","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T17:23:53","slug":"la-taxi-workers-continue-their-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/03\/15\/la-taxi-workers-continue-their-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Taxi Workers Continue Their Struggle"},"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\/2006_03_15_latwa.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_03_15_uprising.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><em>GUESTS: Zahid Butt, Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance, Hamid Khan, Esecutive Director of the South Asian Network. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance forced LAX officials to sit down and listen to their complaints regarding abuses and harassments at the hands of the ATS. (Authorized Transportation Service) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Airport days\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are the most critical workdays for Los Angeles taxi workers, and they feel that the ATS has made LAX a hostile work environment. Citing ATS practices such as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153short-trips,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d excessive fines, and expulsion of drivers from the airport for trumped-up reasons, the Los Angeles taxi Workers Alliance has called for humane treatment for its workers.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a motion on the contract between the City of Los Angeles and ATS on Friday March 17th at 9 am, at City Hall, 200 N. Spring Street, Room 340. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiannetwork.org\">www.southasiannetwork.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUESTS: Zahid Butt, Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance, Hamid Khan, Esecutive Director of the South Asian Network. Recently, the Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance forced LAX officials to sit down and listen to their complaints regarding abuses and harassments at the hands of the ATS. (Authorized Transportation Service) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Airport days\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are the most critical workdays [&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-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","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=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}