{"id":66,"date":"2022-03-29T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/?p=66"},"modified":"2022-04-07T19:23:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T19:23:22","slug":"66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/2022\/03\/29\/66\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>March 29, 2022:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unionbuiltmatters.org\/poor-pay-cross-over\">The Real Cost of Poor Pay<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>Union Built Matters<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Council member Sandra Ung, who represents the city\u2019s 20th district, described how difficult it is for immigrant workers to join unions. \u201cMy district is majority Asian, and union membership among Chinese and Korean workers is one of the lowest among the city\u2019s diverse communities\u2014not just in the construction industry\u2014but in all sectors of the workforce,\u201d Ung said. She added that while the process of joining a union may sway undocumented and other immigrant workers, the certificates and licenses required to be a union worker only exist for a good reason: \u201cto protect workers by creating a safe work environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>March 29, 2022:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unionbuiltmatters.org\/poor-pay-cross-over\">The Real Cost of Poor Pay<\/a>,&nbsp;<em>Union Built Matters<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Council member Sandra Ung, who represents the city\u2019s 20th district, described how difficult it is for immigrant workers to join unions. \u201cMy district is majority Asian, and union membership among Chinese and Korean workers is one of the lowest among the city\u2019s diverse communities\u2014not just in the construction industry\u2014but in all sectors of the workforce,\u201d Ung said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/2022\/03\/29\/66\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}