{"article":{"id":121618,"heading":"Glatt Market Immigrant Workers Struggle for Justice After Tolerating Sweatshop Conditions","author":"Josh","created":"2005-01-23 21:35:33","modified":"2005-01-25 02:17:29","last_modified":"Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:17:29","article":"

The owners of Glatt Market, a community grocery store in the heart of

the Pico-Robertson area of Los Angeles, think it's okay to bring

sweatshop conditions into West Los Angeles and then throw their

workers out onto the street!

The store tragically burned down last week, but the workers of this

market were often paid less than minimum wage, taken advantage of and

subject to racism as Latino immigrants, not paid overtime, not given

the legal breaks and lunches they are entitled to, and, now that the

store has tragically burned down are being thrown out onto the street

without as much as severance pay. Whereas the workers were too

fearful of their employer to organize publicly against this situation

before the store burned down, now they are demanding justice. So is

the surrounding Jewish community, which is becoming acutely outraged

as it learns of the sweatshop conditions that prevailed in this

workplace and the crass treatment of the storeowner to his newly

unemployed workers.

The Jewish community of the Pico-Robertson area and Progressive

Alliance, as well as other activists, have united with these workers,

who are scrambling to make ends meet, find other jobs and pay their

bills. WE WILL BE HOLDING PROTESTS EVERY THURSDAY AT 6:00PM, MEETING IN FRONT OF STARBUCKS AT PICO AND ROBERTSON AND MARCHING TO MILK 'N HONEY RESTAURANT (OWNED BY THE OWNERS OF GLATT MARKET) AT 8813 PICO BLVD. BRING NOISEMAKERS (POTS AND PANS, ETC) AND BRING PICKET SIGNS EMPHASIZING THE FACT THAT WORKERS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS!<\/p>\n","contact":"joshsaxe@yahoo.com","link":"","address":"","phone":"(310)717-2164","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Grocery workers working in the Pico-Robertson at Glatt Market were often paid less than minimum wage and not paid overtime or given adequate breaks. Recently, their store burnt down, and not they are demanding justice from their employer along with community members and anti-capitalist activists.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2005\/01\/121618.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}