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Eleven Filipino guest workers now have visas to work in the U.S. The workers, as one says, are "survivors" of human trafficking.
Earlier, they won a 15-million dollar judgment again L'Amande French Bakery. Their attorney says the Torrance and Beverly Hills bakeries are now closed.
With their families now by their side the workers spoke out about their ordeal. They say they were forced to work 17 hour days, at three dollars an hour. They say their boss humiliated them. After being lured from the Philippines they say they were told they owed their boss eleven thousand dollars.
According to a report recently released by the Pasadena Public Health Department, nearly a dozen people may have died due to a superbug infection at Huntington Hospital contracted by improperly sterilized medical instruments.
All told, 16 people were infected with bacteria.
The news comes after the National Labor Relations Board ruled in favor of registered nurses seeking to form a union at the local hospital. There was already an election, which the nurses lost. But now they can hold another vote.
FILIPINO workers, who prevailed in a yearlong legal battle against the owners of a French bakery in Southern California, now have temporary authorization to live and work in the US.
After winning a $15.2 million case against the owners of the now shuttered L’Amande Bakery (which had locations in Torrance and Beverly Hills), the 11 plaintiffs have been awarded T visas, which allow victims of human trafficking to temporarily live and work in the United States.
After a year-long legal battle resulting in a $15.2 million default judgment last month, the 11 victims of human trafficking who sued the owners of L’Amande French Bakery were also recently granted T visas, also known as T Nonimmigrant Status. T visas provide victims of human trafficking temporary legal status and work authorization and allow them to bring their families to the U.S.
Nineteen Democratic members of California’s congressional delegation are encouraging their attorney general to continue her investigation into ExxonMobil Corp.’s climate science.
In a letter to Attorney General and Senate candidate Kamala Harris (D), the Democrats said they were “supportive of your investigation” into allegations that Exxon misled the public about what it knew about climate change.
The largest public pension fund in Washington, D.C. has successfully purged its $6.4 billion fund of all direct holdings in fossil fuels, city council members and climate activists announced Monday.
The District of Columbia Retirement Board (DCRB) spent the last few years quietly selling off $6.5 million in oil, natural gas and coal investments, amounting to a mere tenth of 1 percent of the organization's total holdings, but made the public announcement at a press conference on Monday.
When Jeysson Minota bailed out of jail, he didn’t know within a week that he would end up on a respirator with a collapsed lung in the Intensive Care Unit at the Valley Medical Center. In jail, he didn’t know that the pain in his chest shortening his breath was actually a growing mass that was stretching his sternum, tearing wires inside of him from a previous operation.
He just knew, as someone who had made it through open heart surgery five years prior, that he needed medical treatment desperately, and he wasn’t going to get it in the Santa Clara County jail.
"I'm informed that, you think that within 30 minutes the seven of you could make the internet unusable for the entire nation, is that correct?"
That question came from Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) on May 19, 1998, while speaking with members of a Cambridge, Massachusetts hacker group known as The L0pht.
"That's correct. Actually one of us with just, a few packets," said Peiter Zatko, who is better known by his hacker pseudonym of Mudge.
WASHINGTON — When North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) signed HB 2 into law in March, with the swish of a pen, he overturned all of the state’s local ordinances that protected lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from being discriminated against.
But there was another consequence to the sweeping anti-LGBT law: It wiped out local anti-discrimination protections for veterans, too.
In recognition of Congressional Foster Youth Shadow Day, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Calif.) hosted a screening of the award-winning television show “The Fosters,” followed by a panel discussion for an audience of over 200 foster youth, national policy experts, congressional staff and Congress members.
Congressman Ted Lieu welcomed young constituents during Foster Youth Shadow Day. (photo courtesy of Congressman Ted Lieu’s Office)
Lieu also hosted a former foster youth who closely shadowed him and experienced the life of a member of Congress for a day.