{"id":82771,"date":"2004-07-22T05:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-22T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9ff0d588-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2004-07-22T05:26:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-22T05:26:00","slug":"9ff0d599-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/9ff0d599-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers air labor grievances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 10 Chinese workers trooped to the Governor\u2019s Office yesterday to air their grievances against their employer\u2019s alleged labor violations.<\/p>\n<p>The workers complained of unpaid wages owed them by American Lagente Corp., which does business as Tom\u2019s Tofu. One of the workers held up a placard that expressed their sentiments.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Juan N. Babauta, who had just come from a news briefing, accommodated the workers and met with them. His legal counsel and press secretary, Steven Newman and Pete Callaghan, respectively, were also present.<\/p>\n<p>Callaghan said attorney general Pamela Brown also met with the workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are frustrated,\u201d said Callaghan, relating the workers\u2019 complaint of back wages that were supposedly due as early as 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Callaghan said the Department of Labor is already conducting an investigation into the company\u2019s alleged labor violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 10 Chinese workers trooped to the Governor\u2019s Office yesterday to air their grievances against their employer\u2019s alleged labor violations.<\/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-82771","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\/82771","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=82771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}