{"id":122319,"date":"2008-04-30T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aff3909e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2008-04-30T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T21:19:00","slug":"aff390b2-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/aff390b2-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"New alien workers\u2019 group to hold assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A newly formed organization of alien workers of different nationalities will hold a membership general assembly at the Garapan Central Park this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Irene Tantiado, interim president of Coalition of United Guest Workers (CNMI), said they are inviting all guest workers to attend the assembly to be conducted from 9am to 1pm.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief statement, Tantiado said the coalition\u2019s mission is to seek legal means to improve the lives of the guest workers and their families in the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to create a new voice for the guest workers in our communities, the nation and in the changing times,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Tantiado said that now is the time to unite and be part of a coalition that is run by guest workers and for alien workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFamilies, friends and supporters are welcome to join,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday will be the fourth meeting of the new organization.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition recently expressed full support to a bill that will allow long-time foreign workers to stay for five-year periods in the CNMI. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly formed organization of alien workers of different nationalities will hold a membership general assembly at the Garapan Central Park this Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}