“I see the federal agents walking. I had one of those ‘Kick ICE out’ buttons, and he looked at me, and he looked at it again. I said, would you like one? I have some extra buttons…He just looked at me and walked off.”

Yolanda recounted that story to me on Tuesday. She has been a luxury suite runner Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, a venue for the FIFA Men’s World Cup, since 2021. It’s been just over a month since roughly 2,000 food and beverage workers at the stadium won and ratified an agreement that includes large raises and labor protections including the right to stop work if immigration officers threaten employee safety.

The “Kick ICE Out” buttons were important to Yolanda, who saw federal........

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