San Diego hit with $533 million pension payment, an unprecedented sum in a painful budget year
The half-billion-dollar payment, which comes with the city facing a large budget deficit of roughly $250 million, is $44 ...
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California hotel chains can’t duck sex trafficking complicity claims
A woman claims hotel employees looked the other way as she displayed obvious signs of being sex trafficked and abused in ...
Calif. seafood company benefitted from human trafficking, lawsuit alleges
California-headquartered tuna brand Bumble Bee Foods has knowingly profited from forced labor on its suppliers’ fishing ...
Shielding immigrants may be at the top of public safety issues in Sacramento this year
The Democratic-led legislature's efforts to shield immigrants from the Trump administration's aggressive deportation efforts, ...
First-of-its-kind lawsuit alleges human trafficking by California’s Bumble Bee Seafoods
San Diego-based canned tuna giant Bumble Bee Seafoods has known for years that fishing vessels in its supply fleet used ...
Fishermen allege abuse, demand change from Bumble Bee Foods
The lawsuit alleges that Bumble Bee was aware of or should have been aware of the abusive conditions on vessels supplying tuna to the company.
Indonesian Fishermen Sue U.S. Canned Tuna Giant Over Claims of Forced Labor
In a lawsuit filed in California, the plaintiffs said that Bumble Bee Foods was aware of and benefited from abuse by ...
4 Indonesians Sue San Diego's Bumble Bee Seafood, Alleging Forced Labor
Citing violations of the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act in 2000, the men represented by Greenpeace and a lawyer ...
Indonesian fishermen sue San Diego-based company, alleging it knew of abuse in its supply chain
Lawyers representing four Indonesian fishermen who say they were beaten and trapped on vessels that were part of the global supply chain that provided tuna to Bumble Bee Seafoods ...