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Video: Los Angeles Hotel Workers Shutdown Parts of Downtown L.A.

5:27 PM PST on December 13, 2018

[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]n a show of force, members of Unite Here Local 11 blocked the intersection of Fifth and Figueroa on the afternoon of December 12. The 7,500 hotel workers across 24 hotels, members of Unite Here Local 11, got a strike authorization last week, but have yet to actually go on strike. Watch video below:

RELATED: ‘I Don’t Make Enough For Rent’ ~ L.A. Hotel Workers Poised To Strike As Early As Wednesday

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Philip Iglauer covered all things Koreana for 15 years — foreign diplomats, kimchi, Samsung and, of course, North Korea — out of Seoul. After returning to his native Northeast Los Angeles in late 2016, he freelances on his hometown’s goings-on.

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