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Convention center workers urge Long Beach to investigate alleged wage theft, extend living‑wage protections to subcontracted staff
Summary
Workers and advocates told the council they have alleged mass wage theft, including cash-only pay and missing pay stubs, and asked the city to enforce living‑wage and worker-retention rules at the Long Beach Convention Center and require ASM Global to hire affected subcontracted workers.
Several convention center workers and advocacy groups used the March 18 public comment period to press the City Council to investigate alleged wage theft by subcontractors at the Long Beach Convention Center and to extend living‑wage and worker‑retention protections to subcontracted employees.
"For 7 months, my coworkers and I have been fighting for a fair contract," said Janelle Cooper, who identified herself as a concession cashier at the convention center. "We have picketed. We have called for a boycott…
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