Immigrant Shift: The Changing California Workforce
Immigrant Shift
The Changing California Workforce
California has the seventh-largest economy in the world, and immigrants have a long history in building that prosperity. Today, one out of every three working people in California is an immigrant – and their share has grown in recent decades. Our economy is shaped by these workers and entrepreneurs – 6 million people who’ve found a job in the Golden State.
In our series “Immigrant Shift,” KQED and The California Report will explore the work they do, the challenges they face and the policies that affect them. How California's immigrant workers actually fare will mean a lot for the state's future.
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Right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhai and others like her — mostly women, it must be said — are worried the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are poised to do an about-face on H-4 EAD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2017, President Trump signed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-executive-order-buy-american-hire-american/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">executive order\u003c/a> to review the H-1B visa process as part of his “Buy American, Hire American” initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cis.org/Immigration-Newsmaker/Immigration-Newsmaker-Conversation-Director-USCIS-Francis-Cissna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rare public conversation\u003c/a> last August at the National Press Club, USCIS Director Francis Cissna argued Congress never explicitly gave H-1B visa spouses the right to work. “That is an important reason why we should propose rescinding it,” Cissna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His argument mirrors the one from a group of IT workers called “Save Jobs USA.” The organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.immigration.com/sites/default/files/SaveJobs-Lawsuit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued Homeland Security\u003c/a> in 2015 over this issue, claiming the DHS is sidestepping protections for U.S. workers built into the H-1B program, specifically a limit on the number of H-1B visas that can be issued each fiscal year. Under the Obama administration, DHS maintained it had broad authority to interpret immigration law. But under the Trump administration, DHS told the appeals court it \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Save_Jobs_USA_v_DHS_Docket_No_1605287_DC_Cir_Sept_30_2016_Court_D/1?1519928167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changed its mind\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11702628 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-800x600.png\" alt='\"The predominance of Indians in both is quite remarkable, but it is also telling that the number of total EADs granted from 2015-17 was much smaller than the H-4 visas granted during the same period,\" says Karthick Ramakrishnan, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-800x600.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-1020x765.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-1200x900.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-1920x1440.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-1180x885.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-960x720.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-240x180.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-375x281.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-520x390.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The predominance of Indians in both is quite remarkable, but it is also telling that the number of total EADs granted from 2015-17 was much smaller than the H-4 visas granted during the same period,” says Karthick Ramakrishnan, professor of political science and public policy. \u003ccite>(Infographic: Courtesy of Karthick Ramakrishnan/AAPI Data)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren of San Jose is one of 132 members of Congress who \u003ca href=\"https://jayapal.house.gov/sites/jayapal.house.gov/files/JayapalLove_DHS_Maintain_H4_Work_Authorization_2018_05_16_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a letter\u003c/a> urging Homeland Security to reconsider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the nation is long overdue for a broad reform of U.S. immigration law that takes into account, among other things, the needs of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a bill to do that. There are other bills that have been introduced. None of them are moving. The Republicans control every branch of government right now and they can’t do anything,” Lofgren said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 1965 law established that no individual country can constitute more than 7 percent of green cards issued in a year. The Immigration Act of 1990 caps the total number of new employment-based green cards at 140,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no other country sends as many highly educated green card applicants to the U.S. as India. Indians who applied in 2009 are just getting their green cards now, and the backlog is growing. Some Indians who qualify are waiting as long as 25 years to move through that queue. “The wait for us is nearly exponential,” Bhai said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhai’s daughter is 7 years old. Her son is 4. She wonders what will happen when they get old enough to apply to college and require more financial support than her husband can manage now. What happens when they turn 21, old enough to require green cards of their own?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving aside her concerns as a mother, what happens if Bhai is forced to sit out during her most productive professional years? “H-4 women face a triple burden if they are able to start working again, particularly in technology: race, gender and long gaps in their resumes,” \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/why-trumps-plan-to-forbid-spouses-of-h-1b-visa-holders-to-work-is-a-bad-idea-89279\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writes\u003c/a> associate professor \u003ca href=\"https://gwst.umbc.edu/amy-bhatt/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amy Bhatt\u003c/a> at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, author of \u003ca href=\"http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/BHAATH.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“High-Tech Housewives: Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Silicon Valley skews heavily male, and many of the women who are present are immigrants. Leena Bhai, who works for AnitaB, an organization that promotes women in technology, argues H4-EAD holders contribute to the San Francisco Bay Area, professionally as well as culturally.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silicon Valley skews heavily male, and many of the women who are present are immigrants. Leena Bhai, who works for AnitaB, an organization that promotes women in technology, argues H-4 EAD holders contribute to the San Francisco Bay Area, professionally as well as culturally. \u003ccite>(Photo: Courtesy of Leena Bhai)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These are approved immigrants waiting for their number to come up. These intending immigrants are supposed to sit on their hands and do nothing, even though they also have Ph.D.s?” Rep. Lofgren said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lofgren added that highly skilled immigrants don’t have to work here. “They’re getting poached by Canada, because they also feel that based on the president’s behavior, his comments, and some new hostility from the Immigration Service itself, that they’re not wanted here. You know, we’re not the only game in town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Countries like Australia, China, Germany and Israel are also reaching out to frustrated Indians who don’t want to wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the Trump administration does not appear to be rushing this particular rule change through. The Department of Homeland Security has pushed its decision-making timeline several times over the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie Dellon, staff attorney with the pro-immigration nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Immigration Council\u003c/a>, said that a notice of proposed rule-making requires a review by the Office of Management and Budget first, as well as a public comment period. “We’re probably looking at 2019 before there’s going to be any action taken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leena Bhai can keep working, at least until the new year. Presuming she wants to stay.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Any day now, federal immigration officials are expected to officially propose that spouses of \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/nativedocuments/Characteristics_of_H-1B_Specialty_Occupation_Workers_FY17.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H-1B\u003c/a> visa holders \u003ca href=\"https://www.reginfo.gov/public/jsp/eAgenda/StaticContent/201810/Statement_1600.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no longer be allowed to work\u003c/a> in the U.S. Roughly \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/BAHA/eads-by-basis-for-eligibility.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">105,000\u003c/a> families are expected to be affected, most of them from India, many of them right here in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take Leena Bhai. Her family of four rents a spacious but modest home in Sunnyvale. Her husband is a product manager with Google. “I came here following my husband. He had an opportunity he wanted to pursue. So I came here as his wife, and now I’m dependent on him,” Bhai explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The word “dependent” rolls uneasily off Bhai’s tongue. Originally from Mumbai, she got her bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Mumbai University. “I have also an MBA from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.isb.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indian School of Business\u003c/a>. It’s an amazing school, and I have an amazing education. I would love to use that, if possible, here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhai is allowed to work for now, thanks to a rule change that went into effect just three years ago, around the time she arrived in the U.S. She’s an H-4 EAD visa holder, the spouse of an H-1B visa holder, which means her husband’s petition for permanent residence, or green card, has already been approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702626\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11702626 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='Leena Bhai with her family on vacation in 2018 at Death Valley. Her husband Siddharth has a job at Google and an H-1B visa, but because of the years-long wait time Indian applicants face for an employment-based green card, the Bhais feel like they may have to give up on their \"American dream.\" ' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-1200x901.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-960x721.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33518_Leena-with-family-2-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leena Bhai with her family on vacation in 2018 at Death Valley. Her husband, Siddharth, has a job at Google and an H-1B visa, but because of the years-long wait time Indian applicants face for an employment-based green card, the Bhais feel like they may have to give up on their “American Dream.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Leena Bhai)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bhai works for \u003ca href=\"https://anitab.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AnitaB.org\u003c/a>, a Palo Alto-based nonprofit that helps recruit, retain and advance women in technology. “I use my H-4 EAD for the betterment of the community. If that’s taken away from me, it’s a little bit of a loss to those women, too. Right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhai and others like her — mostly women, it must be said — are worried the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are poised to do an about-face on H-4 EAD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2017, President Trump signed an \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-executive-order-buy-american-hire-american/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">executive order\u003c/a> to review the H-1B visa process as part of his “Buy American, Hire American” initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cis.org/Immigration-Newsmaker/Immigration-Newsmaker-Conversation-Director-USCIS-Francis-Cissna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rare public conversation\u003c/a> last August at the National Press Club, USCIS Director Francis Cissna argued Congress never explicitly gave H-1B visa spouses the right to work. “That is an important reason why we should propose rescinding it,” Cissna said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His argument mirrors the one from a group of IT workers called “Save Jobs USA.” The organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.immigration.com/sites/default/files/SaveJobs-Lawsuit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued Homeland Security\u003c/a> in 2015 over this issue, claiming the DHS is sidestepping protections for U.S. workers built into the H-1B program, specifically a limit on the number of H-1B visas that can be issued each fiscal year. Under the Obama administration, DHS maintained it had broad authority to interpret immigration law. But under the Trump administration, DHS told the appeals court it \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Save_Jobs_USA_v_DHS_Docket_No_1605287_DC_Cir_Sept_30_2016_Court_D/1?1519928167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changed its mind\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702628\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11702628 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-800x600.png\" alt='\"The predominance of Indians in both is quite remarkable, but it is also telling that the number of total EADs granted from 2015-17 was much smaller than the H-4 visas granted during the same period,\" says Karthick Ramakrishnan, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-800x600.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-1020x765.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-1200x900.png 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-1920x1440.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-1180x885.png 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-960x720.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-240x180.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-375x281.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/H4-visas-2008-17-520x390.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The predominance of Indians in both is quite remarkable, but it is also telling that the number of total EADs granted from 2015-17 was much smaller than the H-4 visas granted during the same period,” says Karthick Ramakrishnan, professor of political science and public policy. \u003ccite>(Infographic: Courtesy of Karthick Ramakrishnan/AAPI Data)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren of San Jose is one of 132 members of Congress who \u003ca href=\"https://jayapal.house.gov/sites/jayapal.house.gov/files/JayapalLove_DHS_Maintain_H4_Work_Authorization_2018_05_16_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a letter\u003c/a> urging Homeland Security to reconsider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the nation is long overdue for a broad reform of U.S. immigration law that takes into account, among other things, the needs of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a bill to do that. There are other bills that have been introduced. None of them are moving. The Republicans control every branch of government right now and they can’t do anything,” Lofgren said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 1965 law established that no individual country can constitute more than 7 percent of green cards issued in a year. The Immigration Act of 1990 caps the total number of new employment-based green cards at 140,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no other country sends as many highly educated green card applicants to the U.S. as India. Indians who applied in 2009 are just getting their green cards now, and the backlog is growing. Some Indians who qualify are waiting as long as 25 years to move through that queue. “The wait for us is nearly exponential,” Bhai said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bhai’s daughter is 7 years old. Her son is 4. She wonders what will happen when they get old enough to apply to college and require more financial support than her husband can manage now. What happens when they turn 21, old enough to require green cards of their own?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaving aside her concerns as a mother, what happens if Bhai is forced to sit out during her most productive professional years? “H-4 women face a triple burden if they are able to start working again, particularly in technology: race, gender and long gaps in their resumes,” \u003ca href=\"https://theconversation.com/why-trumps-plan-to-forbid-spouses-of-h-1b-visa-holders-to-work-is-a-bad-idea-89279\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writes\u003c/a> associate professor \u003ca href=\"https://gwst.umbc.edu/amy-bhatt/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amy Bhatt\u003c/a> at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, author of \u003ca href=\"http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/BHAATH.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“High-Tech Housewives: Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702634\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33519_Leena-conference-2-qut-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Silicon Valley skews heavily male, and many of the women who are present are immigrants. 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You know, we’re not the only game in town.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Countries like Australia, China, Germany and Israel are also reaching out to frustrated Indians who don’t want to wait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, the Trump administration does not appear to be rushing this particular rule change through. The Department of Homeland Security has pushed its decision-making timeline several times over the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leslie Dellon, staff attorney with the pro-immigration nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Immigration Council\u003c/a>, said that a notice of proposed rule-making requires a review by the Office of Management and Budget first, as well as a public comment period. “We’re probably looking at 2019 before there’s going to be any action taken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The new nuclear deal with Iran has some Californians salivating, quite literally. That's because the deal will lift longtime bans on the imports of food and carpets after Iran meets certain obligations to change its nuclear program, possibly as soon as next summer. With more than 200,000 people of Persian descent in California, that has piqued the interest of some Iranian entrepreneurs here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They include Idin Deeb, who immigrated to the Los Angeles area from Tehran with his parents at the age of 5. As such, the Persian food distributor knows something about the little longings of his homesick patrons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's candies and gums and prepared foods of certain brands that no one else can get quite right, \" says Deeb, \"I've had people wax poetic for 25 minutes about a gumball before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeb, 27, started his company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.kalamala.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Kalamala, \u003c/a>as a hobby when he was just 15 with the help of his dad, who imports olive oils from around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238664199\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was always raised with that kind of Iranian-American entrepreneurial mindset, even from a young age. There was no allowance or anything like that. You wanna buy this, how are you gonna make the money to do it?\" remembers Deeb. \"And I knew that there were Persians all throughout the U.S. who were looking for certain ingredients and items. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeb fields regular calls from people in the Iranian diaspora desperate, after more than three decades of trade bans, for what he calls \"nostalgic foods,\" which are laden with memories of childhood and homeland. Walking through his Van Nuys warehouse, Deeb demonstrates how two sugar loaves are rubbed together over a couple during their wedding ceremony to bless them with sweetness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You see, there's a sprinkling of sugar,\" says Deeb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deeb found a local Southern California woman who makes these sugar loaves, an example of how he's had to get creative -- because of sanctions, none of his products are actually from Iran. Teas are often from India, and other products come from places as far as China. He says he's hoping that thawing relations will soon allow him to import authentic Persian foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10802966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-10802966\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/IMG_3833-1440x960.jpg\" alt=\"Siamak Shamouilzadeh at his Ariana Rug Gallery in Los Gatos\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Siamak Shamouilzadeh at his Ariana Rug Gallery in Los Gatos \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We're hoping that once the embargo has dropped and relations have normalized a little bit,\" says Deeb, \"that this room will be filled with stuff that's all foreign labeling and been produced in \u003cspan class=\"il\">Iran.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the idea of Persian Cheetos doesn't quicken your pulse, perhaps Persian caviar, \u003ca href=\"http://www.najmiehskitchen.com/pdf/FoodofLife_2012_FishFreshHerbs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">pistachios, saffron or the sweet-sour barberry\u003c/a>? That could be just the start, says Deeb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the embargo, he says, there's been an explosion when it comes to literacy around foreign cuisine. A foodie at heart, he's most eager to see the flavors he loves make their mark here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm really, really excited to see great Western chefs get their hands on traditional Iranian ingredients that have been used for thousands of years,\" says Deeb.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-immigrants-at-work\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/01/ImmShift375.jpg\">\u003c/a>\n\u003ch3>Stories from Immigrant Shift: The Changing California Workforce\u003c/h3>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>While Deeb could have his way relatively soon, sanctions expert Sam Cutler of \u003ca href=\"http://www.ferrariassociatespc.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari and Associates \u003c/a>in Washington, D.C., says the trade opening is still very narrow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's very little actually changing if you're inside the United States,\" says Cutler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cutler warns that most transactions between the U.S. and Iran -- whether business or personal -- will still be banned. That means people can still get in trouble for shipping products with possible military uses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You've seen over the past couple of years a number of prosecutions of individuals for shipping items to Iran that may not be thought to be sensitive,\" says Cutler, \"like MRI coils or air-conditioning equipment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cutler says the U.S. will lift sanctions only around foreign subsidiaries, commercial airplane parts, food and carpets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siamak Shamouilzadeh has been in that business for three decades. He shows off one of his favorite pieces in his Ariana Rug Gallery in Los Gatos, a Kashan from the 1880s. While he says traditional rugs like these have fallen out of favor with Americans, he’s confident of their enduring value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As far as rugs go, Persian rugs are amongst the very best in the world,\" says Shamouilzadeh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With craft culture all the rage these days, Shamouilzadeh is optimistic about a comeback for handmade Persian rugs. He still has connections to rug makers in Iran, and hopes that once the trade ban is lifted, he can travel back and forth to commission rugs for American clients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"[They could] focus on the type of pattern and designs and colors that would be more usable in this country and, in that manner, expand production,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Shamouilzadeh is looking forward to his own business opportunities, he says he's even more hopeful that increased trade will help make lives easier for people back in Iran.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people share that sentiment, says attorney Nazy Fahimi of the Persian community organization \u003ca href=\"http://www.parsequalitycenter.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Pars Equality Center\u003c/a>. But she advises people to consult a lawyer before doing any business in Iran. 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Her language, Triqui, is as different from Spanish as Navajo is from English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/140479930\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hospital, without a Triqui interpreter, “no one explained anything to me,” said Diaz-Ramirez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was scared, but I didn’t have a choice,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As anesthesia blotted out the operating room, Diaz-Ramirez had no idea a surgeon was about to cut open her chest to implant a pacemaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Medical Interpreters Are Key\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz-Ramirez’s case highlights the importance of trained medical interpreters, researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'No one explained anything to me. I was scared but I didn't have a choice.'\u003ccite>Angelina Diaz-Ramirez, Triqui farmworker who had heart surgery without an interpreter\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Interpreters are “absolutely necessary,” said Alicia Fernandez, a medical interpretation expert at UC San Francisco, because quality health care and basic informed consent are nearly impossible without one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interpreters “enormously increase patient understanding and satisfaction,” said Fernandez. She adds that interpreters also “increase physician satisfaction with the care they deliver.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medicine, she said, is not an antiseptic, scientific process. Doctors can’t just scan, medicate and operate. Clear communication is essential for accurate diagnosis and effective treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"2KQd30QKKYZZL3bwvUkl6icTu31wfvST\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why using improvised sign language, or asking a child to interpret -- just \"getting by\" -- is simply not good enough, said Fernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Getting by leads to mistakes,” she said. “And mistakes can be tragic, for both the patient and the physician.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Indigenous Farmworkers Without Interpreters\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erica Gastelum, a pediatrician in Fresno, regrets that she rarely has access to an interpreter for her Mixteco-speaking patients. She says without one, “You're not able to provide equal care to all comers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83923\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/09/Lagnuage-map.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-83923 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/09/Lagnuage-map-400x225.png\" alt=\"This map shows where Mexican indigenous languages originate. Triqui and Mixteco belong to the oto-mangue family, in southwest of the country (Jeremy Raff/KQED). \" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This map shows where Mexican indigenous languages originate. Triqui and Mixteco belong to the oto-mangue family, in the southwest of the country. (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She remembers a 1-year-old boy with fatal congenital heart disease. Doctors had exhausted every option, and the family was gathered in the intensive care unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is it, this is the moment where we’re going to disconnect the tubes,” said Gastelum. “It seemed like they understood. But in such a crucial moment like that, it would have been so much better to have a culturally sensitive, in-person interpreter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most hospitals, including Gastelum’s, have telephone services that should let doctors call up an interpreter for any language. In practice, though, the system doesn’t always work for more unusual languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you try to use the phone interpreter line to get the indigenous speaker, you’ll be on hold for like two hours,” said Jasmine Walker, also a pediatrician in Fresno. “Then when you get them, they don't actually speak the language that you need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth Holmes is a physician who lived and worked alongside Triqui migrant farmworkers for 10 years and wrote about his experiences in the book \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520275140\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies\u003c/a>.\" As the migrants followed crops up and down the West Coast, they often asked Holmes to accompany them to health clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dozens of clinics throughout California, Washington and Oregon, he said, “I have never seen any Triqui person get a medical interpreter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals may underestimate how many indigenous patients they have -- and how many interpreters they need -- because many providers assume all Mexicans speak Spanish. Some indigenous people may be afraid to call attention to themselves by asking for an interpreter because they are undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don't know that they’re entitled to someone who speaks their language,” said Leoncio Vasquez, who has been training interpreters for 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any health care facility receiving public money has a legal obligation under both state and federal law to provide an interpreter to every patient who needs one. But only a few health care providers have made\u003ca href=\"http://www.indigenousfarmworkers.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> California’s 120,000 indigenous farmworkers\u003c/a> an explicit priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Interpreting a Big Opportunity for Some Farmworkers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brigida Gonzalez, wearing a big \"Qualified Interpreter\" badge, hustles around Natividad Medical Center in Salinas. It's a big building and she’s needed all over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today she’s a professional employee at a big hospital. A year ago, she was picking strawberries nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83917\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/09/Brigida-Patient3-e1443272915487.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-83917 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/09/Brigida-Patient3-400x225.png\" alt=\"Interpreter Brigida Gonzalez\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before interpreter training, Brigida Gonzalez (R) worked in the strawberry fields nearby. \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the fields one day, another picker noticed Gonzalez spoke English -- a rarity in agriculture -- and suggested she look into Natividad’s training program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at Natividad were thrilled to hear from Gonzalez, “because it was so hard to find someone who spoke English, Spanish and an indigenous language like Mixteco and Triqui,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez completed Natividad's six-month training program for indigenous interpreters, the first of its kind, and now works there part time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Just Hospitals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for trilingual interpreters like Gonzalez is growing, and it's not just hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four hours down the coast in Oxnard, all three school districts have hired Mixteco interpreters, and the police have one on contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altogether, there are about 20 Mixteco speakers making a good living with their language skills in Ventura County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These opportunities are one reason why Argelia Zarate, the Oxnard school district’s first full-time Mixteco interpreter, encourages students to practice their Mixteco so they don’t lose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/09/Argelia-1-of-1-e1443466270661.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-83919\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/09/Argelia-1-of-1-e1443466270661.jpg\" alt=\"Argelia Zarate, a Mixteco interpreter at the Oxnard School District, encourages students to practice their native languages.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Argelia Zarate, a Mixteco interpreter at the Oxnard School District, encourages students to practice their native languages. \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn't go to college, yet I have this job,” said Zarate, “because the community is growing so big that they don't need bilinguals-- they need trilinguals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics expects employment of interpreters and translators to grow by\u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/ooh/media-and-communication/interpreters-and-translators.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> 46 percent between 2012 and 2022.\u003c/a> Driving that demand is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2013/acs/acs-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">158 percent increase since 1980 \u003c/a>in the number of people who speak a language other than English at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the median hourly wage for interpreters is $25, compared with $9.09 for farm work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zarate says the better pay, stable hours and a chance to serve her community all make interpreting a big step up from field work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here everybody is nice to you: they talk to you, appreciate what you do,” Zarate said at the elementary school where she works. “In the fields, they treat you like you’re nothing, a slave working for a little bit of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project has trained dozens of interpreters in Ventura County and has pressured public agencies to make use of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83920\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 5010px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/09/Argelia-2-of-2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-83920\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/09/Argelia-2-of-2.jpg\" alt=\"Maria, 6, arrived in Oxnard, CA, from the Mexican state of Oaxaca recently and speaks only Mixteco (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\" width=\"5010\" height=\"3340\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/09/Argelia-2-of-2.jpg 5010w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/09/Argelia-2-of-2-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/09/Argelia-2-of-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/09/Argelia-2-of-2-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/09/Argelia-2-of-2-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2015/09/Argelia-2-of-2-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 5010px) 100vw, 5010px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria, 6, arrived in Oxnard, CA, from the Mexican state of Oaxaca recently and speaks only Mixteco. (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, “Ventura County has invested in having better language access than most parts of California, and honestly most parts of Oaxaca,” said Margaret Sawyer, the group’s development director, referring to the Mexican state that many Mixteco migrants are from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barriers Remain\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone trilingual can make the switch from farm work, though, because there are only a few full-time jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, most hospitals rely on freelance part-time interpreters, who have a hard time making a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will have you for two or three hours, then you’re done for the whole day,” said Israel Vasquez, a trilingual interpreter. “You can’t really live off that.” He eventually quit because he couldn’t get enough hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making a living specifically in health care interpreting right now is not really going to happen,” said Don Schinske, executive director of the California Healthcare Interpreting Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem, Schinske said, is that even though federal law requires hospitals to provide interpreters, there is not a direct federal funding stream to pay for those services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get a lot of this sentiment from hospitals: ‘Look, we’re trying to get people services in their language, but it is a nicety, not a necessity,’ ” said Schinske.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indigenous interpretation programs at Natividad Medical Center are funded by private donations from agricultural businesses in the area, who have contributed $1.7 million since 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB635\" target=\"_blank\">a bill \u003c/a>that would make it easier for hospitals to get federal money for medical interpreters has stalled in the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225965640\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wasted Resource\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmworker Angelina Diaz-Ramirez returned home after her surgery with a new pacemaker ticking in her chest -- and a stack of printed instructions that she couldn’t read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know what to do,\" she said, through an interpreter. \"I had strong pain. Should I call them back?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz-Ramirez didn’t know who her cardiologist was, how to get an appointment or which medications to take. It's just the kind of confusion that a trained medical interpreter can prevent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just felt very sad,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every week, indigenous people with these same questions visit Leoncio Vasquez, the interpreter trainer in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He looks through their paperwork, pieces together a backstory, and helps them figure out what to do next -- something that should have happened at the hospital or clinic, with one of the dozens of interpreters Vasquez has already trained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But those interpreters “can’t find jobs related to interpreting,” said Vasquez. What do they do instead? “Some go back to the fields to do farm work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Vasquez, it's a waste. He says that until more hospitals recognize these immigrants’ valuable language skills, trained interpreters will stay in the fields, picking strawberries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was produced with support from the Institute for Justice and Journalism.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>California has the seventh-largest economy in the world, and immigrants have a long history in building that prosperity. Today one out of every three working people in California is an immigrant — a share that has grown in recent decades. Our state is shaped by these workers and entrepreneurs — 6 million people who’ve found a job in the Golden State. In our series “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-immigrants-at-work\">Immigrant Shift\u003c/a>,” KQED and The California Report explore the impact they have, the challenges they face and the policies that affect them.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the hospital, without a Triqui interpreter, “no one explained anything to me,” said Diaz-Ramirez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was scared, but I didn’t have a choice,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As anesthesia blotted out the operating room, Diaz-Ramirez had no idea a surgeon was about to cut open her chest to implant a pacemaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Medical Interpreters Are Key\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz-Ramirez’s case highlights the importance of trained medical interpreters, researchers say.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'No one explained anything to me. I was scared but I didn't have a choice.'\u003ccite>Angelina Diaz-Ramirez, Triqui farmworker who had heart surgery without an interpreter\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Interpreters are “absolutely necessary,” said Alicia Fernandez, a medical interpretation expert at UC San Francisco, because quality health care and basic informed consent are nearly impossible without one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interpreters “enormously increase patient understanding and satisfaction,” said Fernandez. She adds that interpreters also “increase physician satisfaction with the care they deliver.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medicine, she said, is not an antiseptic, scientific process. Doctors can’t just scan, medicate and operate. Clear communication is essential for accurate diagnosis and effective treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why using improvised sign language, or asking a child to interpret -- just \"getting by\" -- is simply not good enough, said Fernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Getting by leads to mistakes,” she said. “And mistakes can be tragic, for both the patient and the physician.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Indigenous Farmworkers Without Interpreters\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erica Gastelum, a pediatrician in Fresno, regrets that she rarely has access to an interpreter for her Mixteco-speaking patients. She says without one, “You're not able to provide equal care to all comers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83923\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/09/Lagnuage-map.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-83923 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/09/Lagnuage-map-400x225.png\" alt=\"This map shows where Mexican indigenous languages originate. Triqui and Mixteco belong to the oto-mangue family, in southwest of the country (Jeremy Raff/KQED). \" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This map shows where Mexican indigenous languages originate. Triqui and Mixteco belong to the oto-mangue family, in the southwest of the country. (Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She remembers a 1-year-old boy with fatal congenital heart disease. Doctors had exhausted every option, and the family was gathered in the intensive care unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is it, this is the moment where we’re going to disconnect the tubes,” said Gastelum. “It seemed like they understood. But in such a crucial moment like that, it would have been so much better to have a culturally sensitive, in-person interpreter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most hospitals, including Gastelum’s, have telephone services that should let doctors call up an interpreter for any language. In practice, though, the system doesn’t always work for more unusual languages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you try to use the phone interpreter line to get the indigenous speaker, you’ll be on hold for like two hours,” said Jasmine Walker, also a pediatrician in Fresno. “Then when you get them, they don't actually speak the language that you need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seth Holmes is a physician who lived and worked alongside Triqui migrant farmworkers for 10 years and wrote about his experiences in the book \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520275140\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies\u003c/a>.\" As the migrants followed crops up and down the West Coast, they often asked Holmes to accompany them to health clinics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dozens of clinics throughout California, Washington and Oregon, he said, “I have never seen any Triqui person get a medical interpreter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals may underestimate how many indigenous patients they have -- and how many interpreters they need -- because many providers assume all Mexicans speak Spanish. Some indigenous people may be afraid to call attention to themselves by asking for an interpreter because they are undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don't know that they’re entitled to someone who speaks their language,” said Leoncio Vasquez, who has been training interpreters for 15 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any health care facility receiving public money has a legal obligation under both state and federal law to provide an interpreter to every patient who needs one. But only a few health care providers have made\u003ca href=\"http://www.indigenousfarmworkers.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> California’s 120,000 indigenous farmworkers\u003c/a> an explicit priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Interpreting a Big Opportunity for Some Farmworkers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brigida Gonzalez, wearing a big \"Qualified Interpreter\" badge, hustles around Natividad Medical Center in Salinas. It's a big building and she’s needed all over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today she’s a professional employee at a big hospital. A year ago, she was picking strawberries nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83917\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/09/Brigida-Patient3-e1443272915487.png\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-83917 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/09/Brigida-Patient3-400x225.png\" alt=\"Interpreter Brigida Gonzalez\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before interpreter training, Brigida Gonzalez (R) worked in the strawberry fields nearby. \u003ccite>(Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the fields one day, another picker noticed Gonzalez spoke English -- a rarity in agriculture -- and suggested she look into Natividad’s training program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at Natividad were thrilled to hear from Gonzalez, “because it was so hard to find someone who spoke English, Spanish and an indigenous language like Mixteco and Triqui,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez completed Natividad's six-month training program for indigenous interpreters, the first of its kind, and now works there part time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Just Hospitals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The need for trilingual interpreters like Gonzalez is growing, and it's not just hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four hours down the coast in Oxnard, all three school districts have hired Mixteco interpreters, and the police have one on contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altogether, there are about 20 Mixteco speakers making a good living with their language skills in Ventura County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These opportunities are one reason why Argelia Zarate, the Oxnard school district’s first full-time Mixteco interpreter, encourages students to practice their Mixteco so they don’t lose it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" 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grow by\u003ca href=\"http://www.bls.gov/ooh/media-and-communication/interpreters-and-translators.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> 46 percent between 2012 and 2022.\u003c/a> Driving that demand is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2013/acs/acs-22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">158 percent increase since 1980 \u003c/a>in the number of people who speak a language other than English at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, the median hourly wage for interpreters is $25, compared with $9.09 for farm work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zarate says the better pay, stable hours and a chance to serve her community all make interpreting a big step up from field work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Here everybody is nice to you: they talk to you, appreciate what you do,” Zarate said at the elementary school where she works. “In the fields, they treat you like you’re nothing, a slave working for a little bit of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mixteco/Indigena Community Organizing Project has 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(Jeremy Raff/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, “Ventura County has invested in having better language access than most parts of California, and honestly most parts of Oaxaca,” said Margaret Sawyer, the group’s development director, referring to the Mexican state that many Mixteco migrants are from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barriers Remain\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone trilingual can make the switch from farm work, though, because there are only a few full-time jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, most hospitals rely on freelance part-time interpreters, who have a hard time making a living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will have you for two or three hours, then you’re done for the whole day,” said Israel Vasquez, a trilingual interpreter. “You can’t really live off that.” He eventually quit because he couldn’t get enough hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Making a living specifically in health care interpreting right now is not really going to happen,” said Don Schinske, executive director of the California Healthcare Interpreting Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem, Schinske said, is that even though federal law requires hospitals to provide interpreters, there is not a direct federal funding stream to pay for those services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get a lot of this sentiment from hospitals: ‘Look, we’re trying to get people services in their language, but it is a nicety, not a necessity,’ ” said Schinske.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indigenous interpretation programs at Natividad Medical Center are funded by private donations from agricultural businesses in the area, who have contributed $1.7 million since 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB635\" target=\"_blank\">a bill \u003c/a>that would make it easier for hospitals to get federal money for medical interpreters has stalled in the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225965640&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225965640'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wasted Resource\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmworker Angelina Diaz-Ramirez returned home after her surgery with a new pacemaker ticking in her chest -- and a stack of printed instructions that she couldn’t read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t know what to do,\" she said, through an interpreter. \"I had strong pain. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Deepak Aatresh was a teenager in\u003ca href=\"https://www.techinasia.com/uber-carpool-opens-pandoras-box/\"> Bangalore, India\u003c/a>, he watched his father — a research engineer — help build an electric car. That was long before Elon Musk and Tesla came along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was 1983. Aatresh remembers accompanying his dad on test drives, with news reporters trailing along asking how it worked. The battery-operated car dazzled Aatresh, but it also opened his eyes to how limited India was at the time. His father’s electric car never got past the testing stage because, Aatresh said, no one would fund the ambitious project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225369408″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is something crucial about this: There was no confidence in the system in India that someone there could build something that’s useful,” said Aatresh, who is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aditazz.com/home\">founder of Aditazz,\u003c/a> an architectural software startup in Brisbane. “My father constantly lamented that India makes these things, and eventually they just import them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing such disappointment weigh on his father struck a nerve with Aatresh because he wanted to follow in his footsteps as an electrical engineer. So, four years later, Aatresh left India for the United States to launch his career on his own terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Arizona State University. In 1989, Intel recruited him to Santa Clara and into the world of cutting-edge technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was afflicted with Silicon Valley fever within about 24 hours,” said Aatresh. “Everyone rallied around technology with such enthusiasm and an attitude of wanting to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was during a time when waves of graduates from India’s top engineering schools were flocking to Silicon Valley, feeling that the social and political climate in their country stifled innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10695037\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10695037\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Silicon Valley this weekend.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-400x274.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-1440x987.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-1920x1316.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-1180x809.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-960x658.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Silicon Valley this weekend. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to 2015: Aatresh is watching a technology sea change in India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has launched initiatives called “Digital India” to increase electronics manufacturing, expand Internet access and use apps to improve government services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Silicon Valley-India connection — and venture capital investments — are critical if Modi’s initiative is to succeed, especially since several of the CEOs of major tech companies are from India and 16 percent of Silicon Valley startups are run by Indian-Americans, said Venkatesan Ashok, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cgisf.org/\">consul general of India in San Francisco.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Silicon Valley has a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship,” said Ashok. “And I hope it is a culture that we in India can also imbibe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s why \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-california-india-tech-modi-20150913-story.html\">Modi will come to Silicon Valley this weekend \u003c/a>— the first time in 33 years a prime minister of India has visited California. Silicon Valley’s Indian immigrants have played a key role in the U.S. tech economy for decades. Now Modi believes they’re key to building up manufacturing in places like Bangalore, an Indian tech hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is high time that the Indian prime minister did visit and meet this exceedingly successful community, which increasingly is wanting to reconnect back with the motherland,” said Ashok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aatresh is an example of what Ashok is talking about. His 5-year-old company, Aditazz, has been doing projects in various parts of the world, including China and Singapore. Just two months ago, Aatresh opened an office in India and he’s working on winning his first contract there — to design a state-of-the-art, energy-efficient hospital in the southern part of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10695034\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10695034\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Aditazz startup founder Deepak Aatresh (standing) opened an office in India two months ago.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-400x274.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-1440x986.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-1920x1315.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-1180x808.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-960x658.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aditazz startup founder Deepak Aatresh (standing) opened an office in India two months ago. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He believes Indian expatriates are uniquely positioned to do business in their native country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to navigate through the opportunities because we know the people, we know the lay of the land, we know the language, if we need to speak it,” said Aatresh. “In the end, it’s home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because he grew up there, Aatresh knows doing business in India won’t be easy — with its difficult infrastructure, transportation, tax codes and court system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel it’s a bureaucratic mess,” said Aatresh. “If we ever get into any trouble, we’re going to have a lot of challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Stanford Law School who has studied Indian-American entrepreneurs who have returned to their native country, agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“India is a very difficult place to work because of corruption, bureaucracy, pollution, noise, you name it,” said Wadhwa. “But somehow Indian entrepreneurs have been able to rise above it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashok, the consul general, said innovative thinking is still not encouraged in many parts of India, as it is in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Successful entrepreneurs have learned from failure,” said Ashok. “In many ways that’s the opposite of what we see in India, because there we have a rather traditional mindset where we’re told, ‘Don’t think outside the box, don’t get out of the system, don’t do something disruptive.’ Here disruptive technology is the keyword.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While startup failures may be accepted in Silicon Valley, that’s still not an option for entrepreneurs in India, Ashok said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”ZZApQAIhfL24dapeiEYuZiKK77d5Rhm4″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You fail in India, you’re seen as a failure and people say, ‘This guy is useless,’ ” said Ashok. “In Silicon Valley, on the other hand, they encourage you to pick yourself up and do better, learn from your mistakes, and rise on to your success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi is hoping to tap into that mindset this weekend — and court potential investors — when he’s due to visit Facebook in Menlo Park, Mountain View-based Google and Tesla in Fremont. He will also have dinners and lunches with Indian-American startup founders and \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-always-depended-government-money-up-front-about-it-2015-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">community leaders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/indias-modi-wants-to-woo-silicon-valley-but-censorship-and-privacy-fears-grow-at-home/2015/09/23/2ab28f86-6174-11e5-8475-781cc9851652_story.html\">Modi’s trip to Silicon Valley will not be without controversy. \u003c/a>A variety of groups want to use the prime minister’s visit to highlight concerns about his politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 professors signed an open letter protesting India’s recent crackdown on groups like Greenpeace. Others want Modi held accountable for his alleged complicity in anti-Muslim riots more than a decade ago. Protests are expected online and in person as he makes the rounds of the major tech campuses and speaks before 19,000 people at the SAP Center in San Jose on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aatresh will be at the SAP Center event and he may even get to meet Modi. He’s glad to hear the prime minister will tour Tesla, see all the battery-operated cars and meet CEO Elon Musk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s bittersweet. Could Aatresh’s father have given Musk a run for his money, had he been given the chance to develop his battery-operated car in India decades ago?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he’d gotten the kind of tax breaks that Elon Musk got and the kind of support\u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-always-depended-government-money-up-front-about-it-2015-6\"> from [the Department of Energy],\u003c/a> it would have been a great product by now,” said Aatresh. “I’m certain of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>California has the seventh-largest economy in the world, and immigrants have a long history in building that prosperity. Today one out of every three working people in California is an immigrant — a share that has grown in recent decades. Our state is shaped by these workers and entrepreneurs — 6 million people who’ve found a job in the Golden State. In our series “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-immigrants-at-work\">Immigrant Shift\u003c/a>,” KQED and The California Report explore the impact they have, the challenges they face and the policies that affect them.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Deepak Aatresh was a teenager in\u003ca href=\"https://www.techinasia.com/uber-carpool-opens-pandoras-box/\"> Bangalore, India\u003c/a>, he watched his father — a research engineer — help build an electric car. That was long before Elon Musk and Tesla came along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was 1983. Aatresh remembers accompanying his dad on test drives, with news reporters trailing along asking how it worked. The battery-operated car dazzled Aatresh, but it also opened his eyes to how limited India was at the time. His father’s electric car never got past the testing stage because, Aatresh said, no one would fund the ambitious project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225369408″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/225369408″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is something crucial about this: There was no confidence in the system in India that someone there could build something that’s useful,” said Aatresh, who is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aditazz.com/home\">founder of Aditazz,\u003c/a> an architectural software startup in Brisbane. “My father constantly lamented that India makes these things, and eventually they just import them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing such disappointment weigh on his father struck a nerve with Aatresh because he wanted to follow in his footsteps as an electrical engineer. So, four years later, Aatresh left India for the United States to launch his career on his own terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He got a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Arizona State University. In 1989, Intel recruited him to Santa Clara and into the world of cutting-edge technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was afflicted with Silicon Valley fever within about 24 hours,” said Aatresh. “Everyone rallied around technology with such enthusiasm and an attitude of wanting to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was during a time when waves of graduates from India’s top engineering schools were flocking to Silicon Valley, feeling that the social and political climate in their country stifled innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10695037\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10695037\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Silicon Valley this weekend.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-400x274.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-1440x987.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-1920x1316.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-1180x809.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Modi-960x658.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Silicon Valley this weekend. \u003ccite>(Alex Wong/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fast forward to 2015: Aatresh is watching a technology sea change in India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has launched initiatives called “Digital India” to increase electronics manufacturing, expand Internet access and use apps to improve government services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Silicon Valley-India connection — and venture capital investments — are critical if Modi’s initiative is to succeed, especially since several of the CEOs of major tech companies are from India and 16 percent of Silicon Valley startups are run by Indian-Americans, said Venkatesan Ashok, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cgisf.org/\">consul general of India in San Francisco.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Silicon Valley has a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship,” said Ashok. “And I hope it is a culture that we in India can also imbibe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that’s why \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-california-india-tech-modi-20150913-story.html\">Modi will come to Silicon Valley this weekend \u003c/a>— the first time in 33 years a prime minister of India has visited California. Silicon Valley’s Indian immigrants have played a key role in the U.S. tech economy for decades. Now Modi believes they’re key to building up manufacturing in places like Bangalore, an Indian tech hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is high time that the Indian prime minister did visit and meet this exceedingly successful community, which increasingly is wanting to reconnect back with the motherland,” said Ashok.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aatresh is an example of what Ashok is talking about. His 5-year-old company, Aditazz, has been doing projects in various parts of the world, including China and Singapore. Just two months ago, Aatresh opened an office in India and he’s working on winning his first contract there — to design a state-of-the-art, energy-efficient hospital in the southern part of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10695034\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10695034\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-800x548.jpg\" alt=\"Aditazz startup founder Deepak Aatresh (standing) opened an office in India two months ago.\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-400x274.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-1440x986.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-1920x1315.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-1180x808.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Aditazz-960x658.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aditazz startup founder Deepak Aatresh (standing) opened an office in India two months ago. \u003ccite>(Beth Willon/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He believes Indian expatriates are uniquely positioned to do business in their native country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to navigate through the opportunities because we know the people, we know the lay of the land, we know the language, if we need to speak it,” said Aatresh. “In the end, it’s home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because he grew up there, Aatresh knows doing business in India won’t be easy — with its difficult infrastructure, transportation, tax codes and court system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel it’s a bureaucratic mess,” said Aatresh. “If we ever get into any trouble, we’re going to have a lot of challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Stanford Law School who has studied Indian-American entrepreneurs who have returned to their native country, agrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“India is a very difficult place to work because of corruption, bureaucracy, pollution, noise, you name it,” said Wadhwa. “But somehow Indian entrepreneurs have been able to rise above it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashok, the consul general, said innovative thinking is still not encouraged in many parts of India, as it is in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Successful entrepreneurs have learned from failure,” said Ashok. “In many ways that’s the opposite of what we see in India, because there we have a rather traditional mindset where we’re told, ‘Don’t think outside the box, don’t get out of the system, don’t do something disruptive.’ Here disruptive technology is the keyword.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While startup failures may be accepted in Silicon Valley, that’s still not an option for entrepreneurs in India, Ashok said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You fail in India, you’re seen as a failure and people say, ‘This guy is useless,’ ” said Ashok. “In Silicon Valley, on the other hand, they encourage you to pick yourself up and do better, learn from your mistakes, and rise on to your success.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi is hoping to tap into that mindset this weekend — and court potential investors — when he’s due to visit Facebook in Menlo Park, Mountain View-based Google and Tesla in Fremont. He will also have dinners and lunches with Indian-American startup founders and \u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-always-depended-government-money-up-front-about-it-2015-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">community leaders\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/indias-modi-wants-to-woo-silicon-valley-but-censorship-and-privacy-fears-grow-at-home/2015/09/23/2ab28f86-6174-11e5-8475-781cc9851652_story.html\">Modi’s trip to Silicon Valley will not be without controversy. \u003c/a>A variety of groups want to use the prime minister’s visit to highlight concerns about his politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 professors signed an open letter protesting India’s recent crackdown on groups like Greenpeace. Others want Modi held accountable for his alleged complicity in anti-Muslim riots more than a decade ago. Protests are expected online and in person as he makes the rounds of the major tech campuses and speaks before 19,000 people at the SAP Center in San Jose on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aatresh will be at the SAP Center event and he may even get to meet Modi. He’s glad to hear the prime minister will tour Tesla, see all the battery-operated cars and meet CEO Elon Musk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s bittersweet. Could Aatresh’s father have given Musk a run for his money, had he been given the chance to develop his battery-operated car in India decades ago?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he’d gotten the kind of tax breaks that Elon Musk got and the kind of support\u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-always-depended-government-money-up-front-about-it-2015-6\"> from [the Department of Energy],\u003c/a> it would have been a great product by now,” said Aatresh. “I’m certain of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "Cómo Un Grupo de Preparadores de Dim Sum Ganó $4 Millones por Salarios Atrasados",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/23/how-a-group-of-dim-sum-makers-won-4-million-in-back-pay\">Leer en Inglés\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El restaurante Yank Sing, en un brillante rascacielos en el centro de San Francisco, con un dramático chorro de agua que va del piso al techo y almidonados manteles blancos, destacaba entre los demás restaurantes chinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ésta es una de las razones por las que este otoño causó consternación entre los comensales y el público el anuncio que los trabajadores por hora de Yank Sing habían sido víctimas por muchos años del robo salarial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/216015518\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El robo salarial es cuando los empleadores obligan a sus empleados a trabajar sin cobrar o no les pagan las horas extra. Los defensores de trabajadores dicen que el robo de salarios es un problema enorme y que no se reporta con frecuencia. Esto es parte de lo que hizo tan excepcional el caso de Yank Sing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En conjunto, los gerentes y los empleados anunciaron en noviembre que unos 100 [[ó 280 actuales y antiguos? TK]] trabajadores de Yank Sing habían ganado una compensación de $4 millones, la mayor compensación de su clase. Desde la perspectiva de los defensores de trabajadores, el caso terminó bien. Pero llegar a esta solución no fue nada fácil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ZMZLDjMGjL9OSzbM07tcLXOC6t6SEAUP\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Detrás del telón, un núcleo fundamental de trabajadores inmigrantes de sueldo reducido y poco inglés, libró una campaña tenaz que duró casi año y medio. Corrían peligro que su activismo llevara a que los despidieran, y de a pocos organizaron a sus colegas, quienes a su vez tenían muchas razones por las que no participar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Li Xiu Zhen era una de los líderes de la campaña de trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Li es un inmigrante de 61 años, del sur de la China, cuna del dim sum. Sus días laborales los pasa friendo bolitas de ajonjolí, envolviendo los won ton y pelando camarones. Ha estado preparando dim sum en el Yank Sing durante seis años, y gana un poco más que el salario mínimo. Durante la mayor parte de estos años, típicamente trabajaba de 11 a 12 horas al día. Y hasta hace poco, su sueldo indicaba que había trabajado sólo ocho horas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ésta es una de las infracciones laborales que la Comisión Laboral de California encontró en su investigación de Yank Sing. Abogado David Balter explica que la Comisión encontró que los gerentes se quedaban con las propinas y que se estaba obligando a las personas a trabajar horas extra sin cobrar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10612959\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10612959\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/YankSingWorker-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Li Xiu Zhen, cocinera de frituras en el Yank Sing, es una de los líderes organizadores de una campaña en defensa de los derechos laborales en el restaurante.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/YankSingWorker.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/YankSingWorker-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Li Xiu Zhen, cocinera de frituras en el Yank Sing, es una de los líderes organizadores de una campaña en defensa de los derechos laborales en el restaurante. \u003ccite>(Vinnee Tong/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hay que pagar a las personas”, dijo Balter. “Eso es bastante obvio. Hay que pagar a las personas por las horas que trabajan”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los defensores de la fuerza laboral comentan que cunde el robo salarial y que ocurre en muchas industrias. Haeyoung Yoon, con el National Employment Law Project, indica que tres de cada cuatro trabajadores de sueldo reducido en los EE.UU. no recibieron el pago correcto para las horas extra en el 2008. Dice que el problema es epidémico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nosotros decimos que es una de las tendencias definitivas del mercado laboral del siglo XXI”, explica Yoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Los defensores dicen que los trabajadores que se encuentran en esta situación con frecuencia se mantienen con la cabeza gacha.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>No todos creen que el robo salarial es un gran problema. Janna Haynes es la vocera de la California Restaurant Association, la cual representa a propietarios de restaurantes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No me parece que se dé ampliamente el robo de salarios”, dijo Haynes. “Me parece que hay algunos incidentes aislados. No me gusta. A la California Restaurant Association no le gusta, y no toleramos ese comportamiento de los empleadores”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No obstante, en San Francisco, la mitad de los trabajadores de restaurantes en Chinatown dijo que se le paga menos del salario mínimo en el 2010, según una encuesta realizada por la Chinese Progressive Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los defensores dicen que los trabajadores que se encuentran en esta situación con frecuencia se mantienen con la cabeza gacha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al principio, a Li le preocupaba que le despidieran si se quejaba. Pero sintió la frustración de sus colegas. Ella no habla nada de inglés, pero decidió que era hora de levantar la voz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En un empleo anterior, Li había ganado salario atrasado del restaurante. Pensó que también se podría lograr en Yank Sing. Sus colegas estaban nerviosos y Li se convirtió en una de los organizadores para darles la confianza necesaria para unirse a la campaña.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10612965\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10612965\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/YankSingMeat-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Cocineros de preparación trabajan en la cocina del Yank Sing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/YankSingMeat.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/YankSingMeat-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cocineros de preparación trabajan en la cocina del Yank Sing. \u003ccite>(Vinnee Tong/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Después del trabajo, íbamos a sus casas, para hablar abiertamente, cara a cara”, cuenta Li. “A veces nos quedábamos hasta las 11 o la medianoche”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iban generando impulso con las reuniones de noche.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y, notablemente, la gerencia de Yank Sing estaba dispuesta a escuchar cuando se presentaron los trabajadores con su queja. El restaurante es un negocio familiar cuyos propietarios son Henry y Judy Chan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo creo que a nuestros propietarios les chocó sinceramente cuando supieron y fueron concientes de lo que ocurría”, dijo el director de operaciones del restaurante, Jonathan Glick. Glick se unió al equipo gerencial una vez que los propietarios aprendieron del problema. Explica que los propietarios han reemplazado a tres cuartas partes del equipo gerencial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Después de una serie de negociaciones durante año y medio, los Chan concordaron en pagar cuatro años de sueldo atrasado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los trabajadores ahora tienen refrigerios rutinarios, y utilizan hojas para llevar la cuenta de las horas que trabajan. Y tienen seguro médico, todo pagado. Li dice que ahora sí puede salir del trabajo con tiempo para disfrutar de cosas sencillas, como hacer la compra para cocinar la comida de la tarde para su familia. Dice que la diferencia es tremenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Claro que las cosas están mucho más relajadas, mucho más alegres, ahora”, comentó Li.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yoon, del National Employment Law Project, dice que la victoria en el restaurante Yank Sing es parte de un movimiento que ha estado creciendo a nivel nacional durante los últimos dos años.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los trabajadores de la comida al paso, de comercios minoristas, de restaurantes, trabajadores domésticos se están presentando para exigir mejor salario, mejores condiciones laborales”, explica Yoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10612968\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10612968\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Protest-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Trabajadores y defensores laborales marchan por salarios más altos y mejores condiciones laborales en la estación de BART de la 16 con Mission, el 21 de enero del 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Protest.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Protest-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trabajadores y defensores laborales marchan por salarios más altos y mejores condiciones laborales en la estación de BART de la 16 con Mission, el 21 de enero del 2015. \u003ccite>(Vinnee Tong/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shaw San Liu trabaja en la Chinese Progressive Association, con sede en San Francisco. Durante la campaña, su organización y la Asian Law Caucus ayudaron a los trabajadores de Yank Sing con explicarles sus derechos, con organizarse como grupo y para presentar sus peticiones a la gerencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liu dice que le da orgullo ver los beneficios que han ganado estos trabajadores inmigrantes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Todas estas cosas, casi no se oyen, casi no ocurren en esta industria”, dice Liu. “Nos parece que hemos sentado un precedente para otros restaurantes”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahora Li, la que prepara el dim sum, espera que Yank Sing se convierta en ejemplo para otros que quieran emprender la batalla contra el robo de salarios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Esperemos que todos organicen a más personas, que estén mejor informados para poder recibir el pago que nosotros recibimos y tener mejores vidas”, comenta Li.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ella dice que la campaña la transformó. Ella aprendió que podía sentarse en la mesa de negociaciones con los gerentes, cuando antes le daba nervios sólo hablar con ellos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y se mantiene activa abogando por los derechos de los trabajadores, con ayudar a organizar a trabajadores en otros restaurantes para que levanten la voz contra el abuso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California tiene la séptima economía más grande del mundo, y a lo largo de la historia del estado, los inmigrantes han contribuido mucho al desarrollo de esta prosperidad. Hoy, una de cada tres personas trabajadoras en California es inmigrante – proporción que ha crecido en las últimas décadas. Nuestro estado está conformado por estos trabajadores y emprendedores – 6 millones de personas que han encontrado empleo en el Estado Dorado. En nuestra serie “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-immigrants-at-work\">Transformación migrante,\u003c/a>” KQED y The California Report exploran el impacto que surten los inmigrantes, los retos que enfrentan y las políticas que les afectan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/23/how-a-group-of-dim-sum-makers-won-4-million-in-back-pay\">Leer en Inglés\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El restaurante Yank Sing, en un brillante rascacielos en el centro de San Francisco, con un dramático chorro de agua que va del piso al techo y almidonados manteles blancos, destacaba entre los demás restaurantes chinos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ésta es una de las razones por las que este otoño causó consternación entre los comensales y el público el anuncio que los trabajadores por hora de Yank Sing habían sido víctimas por muchos años del robo salarial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/216015518&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/216015518'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El robo salarial es cuando los empleadores obligan a sus empleados a trabajar sin cobrar o no les pagan las horas extra. Los defensores de trabajadores dicen que el robo de salarios es un problema enorme y que no se reporta con frecuencia. Esto es parte de lo que hizo tan excepcional el caso de Yank Sing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En conjunto, los gerentes y los empleados anunciaron en noviembre que unos 100 [[ó 280 actuales y antiguos? TK]] trabajadores de Yank Sing habían ganado una compensación de $4 millones, la mayor compensación de su clase. Desde la perspectiva de los defensores de trabajadores, el caso terminó bien. Pero llegar a esta solución no fue nada fácil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Detrás del telón, un núcleo fundamental de trabajadores inmigrantes de sueldo reducido y poco inglés, libró una campaña tenaz que duró casi año y medio. Corrían peligro que su activismo llevara a que los despidieran, y de a pocos organizaron a sus colegas, quienes a su vez tenían muchas razones por las que no participar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Li Xiu Zhen era una de los líderes de la campaña de trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Li es un inmigrante de 61 años, del sur de la China, cuna del dim sum. Sus días laborales los pasa friendo bolitas de ajonjolí, envolviendo los won ton y pelando camarones. Ha estado preparando dim sum en el Yank Sing durante seis años, y gana un poco más que el salario mínimo. Durante la mayor parte de estos años, típicamente trabajaba de 11 a 12 horas al día. Y hasta hace poco, su sueldo indicaba que había trabajado sólo ocho horas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ésta es una de las infracciones laborales que la Comisión Laboral de California encontró en su investigación de Yank Sing. Abogado David Balter explica que la Comisión encontró que los gerentes se quedaban con las propinas y que se estaba obligando a las personas a trabajar horas extra sin cobrar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10612959\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10612959\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/YankSingWorker-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Li Xiu Zhen, cocinera de frituras en el Yank Sing, es una de los líderes organizadores de una campaña en defensa de los derechos laborales en el restaurante.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/YankSingWorker.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/YankSingWorker-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Li Xiu Zhen, cocinera de frituras en el Yank Sing, es una de los líderes organizadores de una campaña en defensa de los derechos laborales en el restaurante. \u003ccite>(Vinnee Tong/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Hay que pagar a las personas”, dijo Balter. “Eso es bastante obvio. Hay que pagar a las personas por las horas que trabajan”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los defensores de la fuerza laboral comentan que cunde el robo salarial y que ocurre en muchas industrias. Haeyoung Yoon, con el National Employment Law Project, indica que tres de cada cuatro trabajadores de sueldo reducido en los EE.UU. no recibieron el pago correcto para las horas extra en el 2008. Dice que el problema es epidémico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nosotros decimos que es una de las tendencias definitivas del mercado laboral del siglo XXI”, explica Yoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Los defensores dicen que los trabajadores que se encuentran en esta situación con frecuencia se mantienen con la cabeza gacha.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>No todos creen que el robo salarial es un gran problema. Janna Haynes es la vocera de la California Restaurant Association, la cual representa a propietarios de restaurantes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No me parece que se dé ampliamente el robo de salarios”, dijo Haynes. “Me parece que hay algunos incidentes aislados. No me gusta. A la California Restaurant Association no le gusta, y no toleramos ese comportamiento de los empleadores”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No obstante, en San Francisco, la mitad de los trabajadores de restaurantes en Chinatown dijo que se le paga menos del salario mínimo en el 2010, según una encuesta realizada por la Chinese Progressive Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los defensores dicen que los trabajadores que se encuentran en esta situación con frecuencia se mantienen con la cabeza gacha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al principio, a Li le preocupaba que le despidieran si se quejaba. Pero sintió la frustración de sus colegas. Ella no habla nada de inglés, pero decidió que era hora de levantar la voz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En un empleo anterior, Li había ganado salario atrasado del restaurante. Pensó que también se podría lograr en Yank Sing. Sus colegas estaban nerviosos y Li se convirtió en una de los organizadores para darles la confianza necesaria para unirse a la campaña.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10612965\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10612965\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/YankSingMeat-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Cocineros de preparación trabajan en la cocina del Yank Sing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/YankSingMeat.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/YankSingMeat-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cocineros de preparación trabajan en la cocina del Yank Sing. \u003ccite>(Vinnee Tong/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Después del trabajo, íbamos a sus casas, para hablar abiertamente, cara a cara”, cuenta Li. “A veces nos quedábamos hasta las 11 o la medianoche”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iban generando impulso con las reuniones de noche.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y, notablemente, la gerencia de Yank Sing estaba dispuesta a escuchar cuando se presentaron los trabajadores con su queja. El restaurante es un negocio familiar cuyos propietarios son Henry y Judy Chan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo creo que a nuestros propietarios les chocó sinceramente cuando supieron y fueron concientes de lo que ocurría”, dijo el director de operaciones del restaurante, Jonathan Glick. Glick se unió al equipo gerencial una vez que los propietarios aprendieron del problema. Explica que los propietarios han reemplazado a tres cuartas partes del equipo gerencial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Después de una serie de negociaciones durante año y medio, los Chan concordaron en pagar cuatro años de sueldo atrasado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los trabajadores ahora tienen refrigerios rutinarios, y utilizan hojas para llevar la cuenta de las horas que trabajan. Y tienen seguro médico, todo pagado. Li dice que ahora sí puede salir del trabajo con tiempo para disfrutar de cosas sencillas, como hacer la compra para cocinar la comida de la tarde para su familia. Dice que la diferencia es tremenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Claro que las cosas están mucho más relajadas, mucho más alegres, ahora”, comentó Li.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yoon, del National Employment Law Project, dice que la victoria en el restaurante Yank Sing es parte de un movimiento que ha estado creciendo a nivel nacional durante los últimos dos años.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los trabajadores de la comida al paso, de comercios minoristas, de restaurantes, trabajadores domésticos se están presentando para exigir mejor salario, mejores condiciones laborales”, explica Yoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10612968\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10612968\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Protest-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Trabajadores y defensores laborales marchan por salarios más altos y mejores condiciones laborales en la estación de BART de la 16 con Mission, el 21 de enero del 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Protest.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/Protest-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trabajadores y defensores laborales marchan por salarios más altos y mejores condiciones laborales en la estación de BART de la 16 con Mission, el 21 de enero del 2015. \u003ccite>(Vinnee Tong/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shaw San Liu trabaja en la Chinese Progressive Association, con sede en San Francisco. Durante la campaña, su organización y la Asian Law Caucus ayudaron a los trabajadores de Yank Sing con explicarles sus derechos, con organizarse como grupo y para presentar sus peticiones a la gerencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liu dice que le da orgullo ver los beneficios que han ganado estos trabajadores inmigrantes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Todas estas cosas, casi no se oyen, casi no ocurren en esta industria”, dice Liu. “Nos parece que hemos sentado un precedente para otros restaurantes”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahora Li, la que prepara el dim sum, espera que Yank Sing se convierta en ejemplo para otros que quieran emprender la batalla contra el robo de salarios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Esperemos que todos organicen a más personas, que estén mejor informados para poder recibir el pago que nosotros recibimos y tener mejores vidas”, comenta Li.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ella dice que la campaña la transformó. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/23/como-un-grupo-de-preparadores-de-dim-sum-gano-4-millones-por-salarios-atrasados\">Read this piece in Spanish\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yank Sing’s location in a shiny downtown San Francisco high-rise, its dramatic ceiling-to-floor water fountain and its crisp white tablecloths set it apart from other Chinese restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one reason the announcement last fall seemed so jarring to patrons and the public: hourly workers at \u003ca href=\"http://www.yanksing.com/home.php\" target=\"_blank\">Yank Sing\u003c/a> were longtime victims of wage theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/216015518\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wage theft occurs when employers force employees to work off the clock or don’t pay them for overtime. Labor advocates say wage theft is a huge problem and it goes underreported. That’s part of what made the \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-restaurant-wage-theft-20141119-story.html#page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Yank Sing case\u003c/a> so exceptional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Managers and employees announced together in November that roughly 280 current and former Yank Sing workers had won a $4 million settlement. It was one of the biggest of its kind. The way labor advocates see it, the case ended well. But it wasn’t easy to get there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ezEIVfpakEUm0GPwb8fjg2blXqXm3SiG\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind the scenes, a core group of low-wage immigrant workers who speak little English waged a dogged campaign for almost a year and a half. They feared that their activism might get them fired, but gradually they organized fellow workers who had plenty of reasons to back down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Li Xiu Zhen was one of the leaders of the worker campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Li is a 61-year-old immigrant from southern China, the birthplace of dim sum. Her workdays are spent frying sesame balls, wrapping wontons and peeling shrimp. She’s been making dim sum at Yank Sing for six years, and she earns a little more than minimum wage. For most of those years, she typically put in 11- or 12-hour days. But until recently, her paycheck would show that she’d worked only eight hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is one of the labor violations that the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/\">California Labor Commissioner's office\u003c/a> found in its investigation of Yank Sing. Attorney David Balter said the agency found that tips were being taken by managers and people were being forced to work off the clock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10608902\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14860_IMG_0348.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10608902 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14860_IMG_0348.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Yank Sing fry cook Li Xiu Zhen is one of the lead organizers of a workers rights campaign at the restaurant.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14860_IMG_0348.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14860_IMG_0348.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14860_IMG_0348.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14860_IMG_0348.JPG-qut-1400x1050.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14860_IMG_0348.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14860_IMG_0348.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14860_IMG_0348.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yank Sing fry cook Li Xiu Zhen was one of the lead organizers of a workers rights campaign at the restaurant. \u003ccite>(Vinnee Tong/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People need to be paid,” Balter said. “That’s pretty obvious. People need to be paid for hours they’re working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor advocates say wage theft is rampant and cuts across many industries. Haeyoung Yoon, with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nelp.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Employment Law Project\u003c/a>, said three out of four low-wage workers in the U.S. weren’t properly paid for overtime in 2008. She called the problem epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We say this is one of the defining trends of the 21st century labor market,” Yoon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone agrees that wage theft is a huge problem. Janna Haynes is a spokeswoman for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calrest.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Restaurant Association\u003c/a>, which represents restaurant owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Advocates say workers in this situation often just keep their heads down.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I do not think that wage theft is widespread,” Haynes said. “I think there are some isolated incidents of it. I don’t like it. The California Restaurant Association doesn’t like it, and we don’t have any tolerance for that behavior from employers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet in San Francisco, half of restaurant workers in Chinatown said they were being paid less than the minimum wage in 2010, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpasf.org/content/check-please-1-out-2-workers-making-below-minimum-wage\" target=\"_blank\">survey by the Chinese Progressive Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say workers in this situation often just keep their heads down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Li had worried she might be fired if she complained. But she knew her co-workers were increasingly frustrated over how they were treated at Yank Sing. She doesn’t speak any English, but she decided it was time to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an earlier restaurant job, she had won back pay. She thought it could also be done at Yank Sing. Her co-workers were nervous. So Li became one of the organizers who gave them the confidence to join the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10608900\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14857_IMG_0439.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10608900 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14857_IMG_0439.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Prep chefs work in the kitchen at Yank Sing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14857_IMG_0439.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14857_IMG_0439.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14857_IMG_0439.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14857_IMG_0439.JPG-qut-1400x1050.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14857_IMG_0439.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14857_IMG_0439.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14857_IMG_0439.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prep chefs work in the kitchen at Yank Sing. \u003ccite>(Vinnee Tong/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After work, we would go to their homes, and talk openly one on one,” Li said. “Sometimes we’d be there until 11 or 12 at night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those late-night meetings built momentum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remarkably, Yank Sing’s management was willing to listen when the workers came forward with their complaint. The restaurant is a family business owned by Henry and Judy Chan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think our ownership was genuinely shocked when they found out and were made aware of these issues,” said the restaurant’s director of operations, Jonathan Glick. He joined the management team after the owners learned of the problem. He said the Chans have replaced three-fourths of the old management team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After negotiations over a year and a half, the Chans \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpasf.org/press/settlement-yanksing\" target=\"_blank\">agreed to pay four years worth of back wages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers now get proper breaks, and use timesheets to track their hours. And they have fully paid health insurance. Li says she can now leave work in time to enjoy simple things, like buying groceries to cook her family’s evening meal. She says it’s made a huge difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course, things are much more relaxed, much happier now,” said Li.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yoon at the National Employment Law Project says the Yank Sing victory is part of a movement that’s been growing nationally over the past couple of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fast-food workers, retail workers, restaurant workers, domestic workers (are) really coming forward to demand better wages, better working conditions,” Yoon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10559244\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS14863_IMG_0143.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10559244 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS14863_IMG_0143.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Workers and labor advocates rally for higher pay and better working conditions at the 16th and Mission BART station, Jan. 21, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS14863_IMG_0143.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS14863_IMG_0143.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS14863_IMG_0143.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS14863_IMG_0143.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS14863_IMG_0143.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS14863_IMG_0143.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers and labor advocates rally for higher pay and better working conditions at the 16th and Mission BART Station on Jan. 21, 2015. \u003ccite>(Vinnee Tong/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shaw San Liu is with the San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpasf.org/about\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese Progressive Association\u003c/a>. Throughout the campaign, her organization and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.asianlawcaucus.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a> helped the Yank Sing workers understand their rights, organize as a group and take their requests to management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liu said she’s proud to see what benefits these immigrant workers have won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these things, they’re pretty unheard of, to happen in this industry,\" Liu said. \"We think it sets a precedent for other restaurants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Li, the dim sum cook, hopes Yank Sing will be an example to others to take up the fight against wage theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully everyone will organize more people, and be better informed so they can get our kind of pay and have better lives,” Li said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the campaign changed her. She learned she could sit at a negotiating table with managers who she was once nervous just to talk to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she’s keeping up her fight for workers rights, by helping organize workers at other restaurants to speak up against abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Note: This article has been changed to reflect the fact that the state agency that enforces labor laws is the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, which is part of the Department of Industrial Relations. We regret the error.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>California has the seventh-largest economy in the world, and immigrants have a long history in building that prosperity. Today one out of every three working people in California is an immigrant — a share that has grown in recent decades. Our state is shaped by these workers and entrepreneurs — 6 million people who’ve found a job in the Golden State. In our series “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-immigrants-at-work\">Immigrant Shift\u003c/a>,” KQED and The California Report explore the impact they have, the challenges they face and the policies that affect them.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Managers and employees announced together in November that roughly 280 current and former Yank Sing workers had won a $4 million settlement. It was one of the biggest of its kind. The way labor advocates see it, the case ended well. But it wasn’t easy to get there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Behind the scenes, a core group of low-wage immigrant workers who speak little English waged a dogged campaign for almost a year and a half. They feared that their activism might get them fired, but gradually they organized fellow workers who had plenty of reasons to back down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Li Xiu Zhen was one of the leaders of the worker campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Li is a 61-year-old immigrant from southern China, the birthplace of dim sum. Her workdays are spent frying sesame balls, wrapping wontons and peeling shrimp. She’s been making dim sum at Yank Sing for six years, and she earns a little more than minimum wage. For most of those years, she typically put in 11- or 12-hour days. But until recently, her paycheck would show that she’d worked only eight hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is one of the labor violations that the \u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/\">California Labor Commissioner's office\u003c/a> found in its investigation of Yank Sing. Attorney David Balter said the agency found that tips were being taken by managers and people were being forced to work off the clock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10608902\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14860_IMG_0348.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10608902 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14860_IMG_0348.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Yank Sing fry cook Li Xiu Zhen is one of the lead organizers of a workers rights campaign at the restaurant.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14860_IMG_0348.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14860_IMG_0348.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14860_IMG_0348.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14860_IMG_0348.JPG-qut-1400x1050.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14860_IMG_0348.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14860_IMG_0348.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14860_IMG_0348.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yank Sing fry cook Li Xiu Zhen was one of the lead organizers of a workers rights campaign at the restaurant. \u003ccite>(Vinnee Tong/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People need to be paid,” Balter said. “That’s pretty obvious. People need to be paid for hours they’re working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor advocates say wage theft is rampant and cuts across many industries. Haeyoung Yoon, with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nelp.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Employment Law Project\u003c/a>, said three out of four low-wage workers in the U.S. weren’t properly paid for overtime in 2008. She called the problem epidemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We say this is one of the defining trends of the 21st century labor market,” Yoon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone agrees that wage theft is a huge problem. Janna Haynes is a spokeswoman for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.calrest.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Restaurant Association\u003c/a>, which represents restaurant owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Advocates say workers in this situation often just keep their heads down.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I do not think that wage theft is widespread,” Haynes said. “I think there are some isolated incidents of it. I don’t like it. The California Restaurant Association doesn’t like it, and we don’t have any tolerance for that behavior from employers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet in San Francisco, half of restaurant workers in Chinatown said they were being paid less than the minimum wage in 2010, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpasf.org/content/check-please-1-out-2-workers-making-below-minimum-wage\" target=\"_blank\">survey by the Chinese Progressive Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say workers in this situation often just keep their heads down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Li had worried she might be fired if she complained. But she knew her co-workers were increasingly frustrated over how they were treated at Yank Sing. She doesn’t speak any English, but she decided it was time to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an earlier restaurant job, she had won back pay. She thought it could also be done at Yank Sing. Her co-workers were nervous. So Li became one of the organizers who gave them the confidence to join the campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10608900\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14857_IMG_0439.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10608900 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14857_IMG_0439.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Prep chefs work in the kitchen at Yank Sing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14857_IMG_0439.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14857_IMG_0439.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14857_IMG_0439.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14857_IMG_0439.JPG-qut-1400x1050.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14857_IMG_0439.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14857_IMG_0439.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RS14857_IMG_0439.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prep chefs work in the kitchen at Yank Sing. \u003ccite>(Vinnee Tong/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“After work, we would go to their homes, and talk openly one on one,” Li said. “Sometimes we’d be there until 11 or 12 at night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those late-night meetings built momentum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And remarkably, Yank Sing’s management was willing to listen when the workers came forward with their complaint. The restaurant is a family business owned by Henry and Judy Chan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think our ownership was genuinely shocked when they found out and were made aware of these issues,” said the restaurant’s director of operations, Jonathan Glick. He joined the management team after the owners learned of the problem. He said the Chans have replaced three-fourths of the old management team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After negotiations over a year and a half, the Chans \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpasf.org/press/settlement-yanksing\" target=\"_blank\">agreed to pay four years worth of back wages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers now get proper breaks, and use timesheets to track their hours. And they have fully paid health insurance. Li says she can now leave work in time to enjoy simple things, like buying groceries to cook her family’s evening meal. She says it’s made a huge difference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Of course, things are much more relaxed, much happier now,” said Li.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yoon at the National Employment Law Project says the Yank Sing victory is part of a movement that’s been growing nationally over the past couple of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fast-food workers, retail workers, restaurant workers, domestic workers (are) really coming forward to demand better wages, better working conditions,” Yoon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10559244\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS14863_IMG_0143.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10559244 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS14863_IMG_0143.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Workers and labor advocates rally for higher pay and better working conditions at the 16th and Mission BART station, Jan. 21, 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS14863_IMG_0143.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS14863_IMG_0143.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS14863_IMG_0143.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS14863_IMG_0143.JPG-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS14863_IMG_0143.JPG-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/RS14863_IMG_0143.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers and labor advocates rally for higher pay and better working conditions at the 16th and Mission BART Station on Jan. 21, 2015. \u003ccite>(Vinnee Tong/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shaw San Liu is with the San Francisco-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpasf.org/about\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese Progressive Association\u003c/a>. Throughout the campaign, her organization and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.asianlawcaucus.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a> helped the Yank Sing workers understand their rights, organize as a group and take their requests to management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liu said she’s proud to see what benefits these immigrant workers have won.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of these things, they’re pretty unheard of, to happen in this industry,\" Liu said. \"We think it sets a precedent for other restaurants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Li, the dim sum cook, hopes Yank Sing will be an example to others to take up the fight against wage theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully everyone will organize more people, and be better informed so they can get our kind of pay and have better lives,” Li said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the campaign changed her. She learned she could sit at a negotiating table with managers who she was once nervous just to talk to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she’s keeping up her fight for workers rights, by helping organize workers at other restaurants to speak up against abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Note: This article has been changed to reflect the fact that the state agency that enforces labor laws is the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, which is part of the Department of Industrial Relations. We regret the error.\u003c/span>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/22/enforcement-of-new-l-a-minimum-wage-law-will-be-challenging\">Leer en Inglés\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cundían los vítores el mes pasado cuando las autoridades de la ciudad de Los Ángeles aprobaron una ordenanza que impelerá el salario mínimo en la ciudad a los $15 la hora para el año 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con el entusiasmo también llega la preocupación – en particular entre los inmigrantes, quienes comprenden la mayoría de los trabajadores de bajos ingresos – referente a precisamente cómo intenta la ciudad hacer cumplir el aumento de sueldo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/215847318\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante los meses de audiencias públicas que llevaron a la aprobación final del aumento de sueldo, abundaron las historias de presunto robo salarial. Muchas historias partieron de los inmigrantes, quienes describían a dueños de restaurantes que se quedaban con sus propinas, instalaciones de lavado de autos que pagaban menos de lo acordado y represalias contra los que levantaban la voz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nadie quiere un aumento en el costo de la mano de obra salvo que alguien les ponga mano al fuego y se lo obliguen”, dice Tia Koonse, del UCLA Labor Center, co-autora del informe sobre el impacto que surte el robo de salarios en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"8dPpR296TLreRoLLNJ196tyYbkRzATj9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De los aproximadamente 700 mil trabajadores que bajo la nueva ordenanza del salario mínimo podrían ver un aumento en su paga, unos 6 de cada 10 no nacieron en los Estados Unidos, según Daniel Fleming, director de la Economic Roundtable, un grupo de investigación de políticas gubernamentales en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los trabajadores inmigrantes con manejo limitado del inglés o que no conocen las leyes laborales pueden estar en peligro de ser explotados, dicen los defensores, pero los más vulnerables suelen ser los indocumentados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es en realidad ilegal pagar menos del salario mínimo”, dice Koonse. “Y hay que pagar a los trabajadores indocumentados, quienes califican para recibir todos y cada uno de los derechos al salario y el horario de los que gozan sus contrapartes documentados”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Oficina del Fiscal de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles lleva algunos de los temas de quejas salariales y laborales, pero sólo una fracción de ellas. La mayor parte – más del 80 por ciento – los lleva un pequeño equipo de investigadores y abogados de la Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE por sus siglas en inglés: División de Implementación de Normas Laborales) del Comisionado Laboral de California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10611475\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10611475\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x5071-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"Defensores – en su mayoría – de una propuesta por aumentar el salario mínimo en Los Ángeles a $15 la hora para el 2020 de manera rutinaria atiborran la cámara del Consejo de la Ciudad para presenciar un voto importante.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x5071.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x5071-400x254.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Defensores – en su mayoría – de una propuesta por aumentar el salario mínimo en Los Ángeles a $15 la hora para el 2020 de manera rutinaria atiborran la cámara del Consejo de la Ciudad para presenciar un voto importante. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Los Ángeles es la capital de robo salarial del país”, dice abogada de DLSE, Julia Figueira-McDonough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La oficina de Figueira-McDonough atiende unas 5.000 quejas por robo salarial al año, en particular derivadas de las industrias que emplean altos números de trabajadores inmigrantes, pero que con frecuencia les pagan menos del salario mínimo actual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sencillamente, Los Ángeles es una ciudad mucho más grande con una mayor variedad de industrias de poca remuneración: la confección, la conserjería, la construcción”, explica Figueira-McDonough. “Muchas industrias que dependen de lo que tendría que ser mano de obra pagada al salario mínimo, pero no pagan ni el mínimo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando entra en vigor el aumento salarial en Los Ángeles en junio, también se abrirá una nueva División de Implementación de Salarios de la ciudad. Seguirá el modelo de la división de implementación de salarios de San Francisco, donde trabajan unos seis investigadores de robo salarial a tiempo completo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Ángeles comenzará con cinco investigadores. Koonse replica que esto no es suficiente. Pero que no es un mal comienzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nosotros tenemos como nueve veces el número de trabajadores de bajos ingresos que San Francisco, entonces claramente, con contratar a cinco investigadores no se va a lograr el nivel de implementación al que llega San Francisco”, explica Koonse. “No obstante, es mejor que lo que ocurre a nivel estatal”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El objetivo de Los Ángeles es de ampliar el personal de la oficina de implementación de las leyes salariales y laborales a unos 40 empleados para el año 2020, cuando entra en vigor el salario de $15 la hora. Los negocios que no cumplen con la ley podrán verse con multas de miles de dólares y perder sus licencias de operación.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'L.A. es la capital de robo salarial del país'\u003ccite>Julia Figueira-McDonough\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Pero son muchos los empleadores que temen que estas reglas estrictas podrían ser explotados por las personas que presentan reclamos falsos de robo de salarios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Se van a ver abogados y defensores que utilizarán esta estructura de implementación que en este momento se ve muy apto para el abuso”, dice Rubén González, de la Cámara de Comercio de Los Ángeles Metropolitana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Le garantizo que en aquellas empresas donde quieren entrar los sindicatos, van a surgir de repente numerosas quejas salariales que podrán ser reclamos falsos”, asevera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Vallecillo dice que sus reclamos son de verdad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallecillo se encuentra entre un grupo de trabajadores en una empresa de almacenamiento cerca de los puertos de Los Ángeles que le han entablado juicio contra su empleador por presunto robo de salarios. Explica Vallecillo que varios de los trabajadores inmigrantes del grupo no tienen documentos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Algunos de nuestros trabajadores indocumentados han estado trabajando allí 10, 15 años, y tenían miedo de unirse al grupo por la represalia de ser despedidos”, dice Vallecillo. “Además, siguen con miedo hasta el día de hoy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10611470\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Activistas laborales celebran el 13 de junio del 2015 en lo que el alcalde de Los Ángeles, Eric Garcetti, firma legislación a partir de una ordenanza que eleva el salario mínimo a $15 para el 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10611470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881.jpg 1400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/RaiseWageLA-1400x7881-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activistas laborales celebran el 13 de junio del 2015 en lo que el alcalde de Los Ángeles, Eric Garcetti, firma legislación a partir de una ordenanza que eleva el salario mínimo a $15 para el 2020. \u003ccite>(MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Si la ciudad ya contara con una oficina de implementación de la ley salarial operante, explica, tal vez él y sus colegas no tendrían que haber entablado juicio contra su empleador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con todo, el ganar un juicio contra un empleador que no paga el salario legal no es garantía que los trabajadores reciban el dinero que se les debe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según un informe del comisionado estatal de trabajo, sólo un 15 por ciento de las víctimas del robo de salarios que ganan sus casos reciben recompensa. Los juicios pueden demorarse por la presentación de apelaciones. Un negocio podría cerrarse y volver a abrir con otro nombre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hoy podría llamarse Magic Carwash y mañana llamarse Magic Carwash Inc.,” explica Flor Rodríguez de la organización sin fines de lucro, Clean Carwash Campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rodríguez cuenta que esto es lo que le ocurrió hace unos años a un grupo de trabajadores de lavado de autos en Los Ángeles. La organización ayudó a estos trabajadores, todos inmigrantes, y con el tiempo llegaron a ganar un juicio de varios miles de dólares por pérdida salarial contra su antiguo empleador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Elaboramos un caso ante el departamento de trabajo, pero no hemos recibido dinero del caso”, comenta Rodríguez. “A los trabajadores que participaron en el caso, el dueño comenzó a darles cada vez menos horas de trabajo. Entonces, la represalia se dio rápidamente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislación propuesta por el Presidente pro Tem del Senado Estatal, Kevin de León (demócrata por Los Ángeles), podría invertir esta tendencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si la legislación se aprueba, los empleadores renegados tendrían que pagar un bono para garantizar el pago de salarios robados o arriesgar que se les imponga embargos a las propiedades y otras sanciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California tiene la séptima economía más grande del mundo, y a lo largo de la historia del estado, los inmigrantes han contribuido mucho al desarrollo de esta prosperidad. Hoy, una de cada tres personas trabajadoras en California es inmigrante – proporción que ha crecido en las últimas décadas. Nuestro estado está conformado por estos trabajadores y emprendedores – 6 millones de personas que han encontrado empleo en el Estado Dorado. En nuestra serie “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/california-immigrants-at-work\">Transformación migrante,\u003c/a>” KQED y The California Report exploran el impacto que surten los inmigrantes, los retos que enfrentan y las políticas que les afectan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nadie quiere un aumento en el costo de la mano de obra salvo que alguien les ponga mano al fuego y se lo obliguen”, dice Tia Koonse, del UCLA Labor Center, co-autora del informe sobre el impacto que surte el robo de salarios en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>De los aproximadamente 700 mil trabajadores que bajo la nueva ordenanza del salario mínimo podrían ver un aumento en su paga, unos 6 de cada 10 no nacieron en los Estados Unidos, según Daniel Fleming, director de la Economic Roundtable, un grupo de investigación de políticas gubernamentales en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los trabajadores inmigrantes con manejo limitado del inglés o que no conocen las leyes laborales pueden estar en peligro de ser explotados, dicen los defensores, pero los más vulnerables suelen ser los indocumentados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es en realidad ilegal pagar menos del salario mínimo”, dice Koonse. “Y hay que pagar a los trabajadores indocumentados, quienes califican para recibir todos y cada uno de los derechos al salario y el horario de los que gozan sus contrapartes documentados”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Oficina del Fiscal de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles lleva algunos de los temas de quejas salariales y laborales, pero sólo una fracción de ellas. La mayor parte – más del 80 por ciento – los lleva un pequeño equipo de investigadores y abogados de la Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE por sus siglas en inglés: División de Implementación de Normas Laborales) del Comisionado Laboral de California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10611475\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10611475\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x5071-800x507.jpg\" alt=\"Defensores – en su mayoría – de una propuesta por aumentar el salario mínimo en Los Ángeles a $15 la hora para el 2020 de manera rutinaria atiborran la cámara del Consejo de la Ciudad para presenciar un voto importante.\" width=\"800\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x5071.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/CityCouncil-800x5071-400x254.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Defensores – en su mayoría – de una propuesta por aumentar el salario mínimo en Los Ángeles a $15 la hora para el 2020 de manera rutinaria atiborran la cámara del Consejo de la Ciudad para presenciar un voto importante. \u003ccite>(Brian Watt/KPCC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Los Ángeles es la capital de robo salarial del país”, dice abogada de DLSE, Julia Figueira-McDonough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La oficina de Figueira-McDonough atiende unas 5.000 quejas por robo salarial al año, en particular derivadas de las industrias que emplean altos números de trabajadores inmigrantes, pero que con frecuencia les pagan menos del salario mínimo actual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sencillamente, Los Ángeles es una ciudad mucho más grande con una mayor variedad de industrias de poca remuneración: la confección, la conserjería, la construcción”, explica Figueira-McDonough. “Muchas industrias que dependen de lo que tendría que ser mano de obra pagada al salario mínimo, pero no pagan ni el mínimo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando entra en vigor el aumento salarial en Los Ángeles en junio, también se abrirá una nueva División de Implementación de Salarios de la ciudad. Seguirá el modelo de la división de implementación de salarios de San Francisco, donde trabajan unos seis investigadores de robo salarial a tiempo completo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Ángeles comenzará con cinco investigadores. Koonse replica que esto no es suficiente. Pero que no es un mal comienzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nosotros tenemos como nueve veces el número de trabajadores de bajos ingresos que San Francisco, entonces claramente, con contratar a cinco investigadores no se va a lograr el nivel de implementación al que llega San Francisco”, explica Koonse. “No obstante, es mejor que lo que ocurre a nivel estatal”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El objetivo de Los Ángeles es de ampliar el personal de la oficina de implementación de las leyes salariales y laborales a unos 40 empleados para el año 2020, cuando entra en vigor el salario de $15 la hora. Los negocios que no cumplen con la ley podrán verse con multas de miles de dólares y perder sus licencias de operación.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'L.A. es la capital de robo salarial del país'\u003ccite>Julia Figueira-McDonough\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Pero son muchos los empleadores que temen que estas reglas estrictas podrían ser explotados por las personas que presentan reclamos falsos de robo de salarios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Se van a ver abogados y defensores que utilizarán esta estructura de implementación que en este momento se ve muy apto para el abuso”, dice Rubén González, de la Cámara de Comercio de Los Ángeles Metropolitana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Le garantizo que en aquellas empresas donde quieren entrar los sindicatos, van a surgir de repente numerosas quejas salariales que podrán ser reclamos falsos”, asevera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Vallecillo dice que sus reclamos son de verdad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallecillo se encuentra entre un grupo de trabajadores en una empresa de almacenamiento cerca de los puertos de Los Ángeles que le han entablado juicio contra su empleador por presunto robo de salarios. 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