Tag: Labor
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Employee Rights Center Surveys Paleteros On Health and Safety
Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Brian Myers Push cart food vendors crisscross the residential neighborhoods around Fairmount Avenue in City Heights. They’re known as paleteros, a Spanish term for mobile food workers, and residents can hear them coming down the block by their unmistakeable ringing bells. Paleteros serve ice cream,…
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University of Iron Comes to City Heights, With Living Wages In Tow
Ironworkers Local 229, Councilwoman Marti Emerald and other elected officials celebrate the opening of the University of Iron Oct. 27. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Brian Myers When it comes to grand openings, a ribbon cutting isn’t satisfactory for ironworkers. With sparks flying Local 229 of The International Association…
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Fast-Food Workers in City Heights Strike For $15 An Hour
Protesters are arrested after refusing to leave a City Heights intersection, Sept. 4, 2013. | Photo Credit: Erik Anderson By Erik Anderson Fast-food workers in San Diego took to the streets of City Heights Thursday as part of a one-day strike in up to 150 cities nationwide to press their demands for pay of $15…
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City Heights Residents Are Wary of Albertsons Replacement
Since Albertsons closed its doors in City Heights in February 2014, the parking lot at the once-busy City Heights Urban Village sits nearly empty. | Photo Credit: Megan Burks By Megan Burks Residents reeled when Albertsons announced earlier this year it was closing its grocery store in City Heights, which many call a food desert.…
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Labor Leader Lorena Gonzalez Announces Bid for 80th Assembly District
By Megan Burks San Diego labor leader Lorena Gonzalez announced late Wednesday she’ll run to represent San Diegans in California’s 80th Assembly District. The district covers most of the South Bay and stretches up into City Heights. Ben Hueso is expected to vacate the position early next year in a run for the state Senate…