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NEWS & LETTERS, OCTOBER 2003Assi Market updateLos Angeles--In August 2002, Assi Korean Supermarket fired over 50 workers on the pretense of illegal Social Security numbers, but actually because of their organizing for a union. There has been no settlement after one year of picketing, demonstrations and lawsuits. Since the firing, the workers, mostly Latinos, have been picketing the market on a daily basis. They have been supported by grassroots organizations, especially Korean Immigrant Workers Advocate and the Immigrant Workers Union. A Korean immigrant worker was fired by Assi Market for protesting against constant verbal harassment and ridicule of workers and demanding more work in less time for poverty minimum wage: “We won’t let Assi Market profit off our sweat and tears. There is no way they will succeed in stopping our will and power to change these inequalities. We won’t stand for all this, and we will fight to the end.” --Basho |
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