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Car‑wash worker advocates describe raids, urge AB 2271 to provide emergency benefits
Summary
Clean Car Wash Workers Center and other worker representatives told the Senate committee that targeted federal raids have disrupted car‑wash workplaces, pushed many workers out of the industry and that the legislature should back AB 2271 (Assemblymember Robert Garcia) to provide direct financial benefits to impacted families.
Flor Melendres, executive director of the Clean Car Wash Workers Center, told the committee that the car‑wash industry — largely small, immigrant‑owned operations employing monolingual Spanish and indigenous workers — has been heavily affected by recent enforcement activity.
Melendres said Clean identified roughly 109 car washes targeted since June and…
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