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Together with other progressive organizations in the Los Angeles community, Arbeter Ring (Workmen's Circle) is participating in the Campaign for a New Century, focusing on the rights of workers to organize, particularly in the notorious Century Corridor around LAX, where non-unionized hotel workers face deplorable conditions and low pay. A large percentage of residents in the surrounding communities – Hawthorne, Lennox, and Inglewood - are low-wage workers, many of whom are employed in the tourism industry. With 7,200 rooms and about 3,500 workers, Century Boulevard’s 13 hotels make up a Las Vegas-style strip for L.A.’s tourism industry, the second largest industry in the region. Workers at these hotels earned, on average, $16,000 in 2000 -- almost 20 percent less than hotel workers in the county as a whole. Due to unaffordable premiums, most workers do not have health insurance.
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