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\u201cI see the<\/span> federal agents walking. I had one of those \u2018Kick ICE out\u2019 buttons, and he looked at me, and he looked at it again. I said, would you like one? I have some extra buttons\u2026He just looked at me and walked off.\u201d<\/p>

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Yolanda recounted that story to me on Tuesday. She has been a luxury suite runner at Los Angeles\u2019 SoFi Stadium, avenue for the FIFA Men\u2019s World Cup, since 2021. It\u2019s 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 stopwork if immigration officers threaten employee safety.<\/p>\n

The \u201cKick ICE Out\u201d buttons were important to Yolanda, who saw federal agents patrolling the stadium and surrounding area\u2014and kicking many vendors out of the parking lot\u2014alongside local police, the county sheriff, state troopers, and private security from at least three firms, including off-duty cops.<\/p>\n

Months before the first World Cup match, officials from FIFA, the international soccer governing body, required workers at World Cup stadiums to provide extensive personal information for work accreditation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a little disturbing,\u201d Cesar, a bartender at SoFi for about five years, said to me. \u201cWe were worried [about] what they could do with our information\u201d\u2014which included driver\u2019s licenses, social security numbers, worker permit numbers, and home addresses\u2014\u201dbut all the workers wanted to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

FIFA\u2019s relationship with the federal government, and especially the Department of Homeland Security, raised the prospect of that information making its way to immigration agents. Kurt Petersen, co-president of UNITE HERE Local 11, which represents the workers at SoFi, told Mother Jones<\/em> that FIFA\u2019s contract permits it to share worker information with intelligence and law enforcement agencies\u2014and that many workers had already provided their personal information before the union understood how the accreditation process worked.<\/p>

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The workers\u2019 new contract prevents any similar requirement from being imposed again\u2014such as when Los Angeles hosts the Olympics and Paralympics in 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And the new contract bars the firm that employs the SoFi workers, as well as the stadium\u2019s billionaire owner Stan Kroenke, from subcontracting work away from them.<\/p>\n

The agreement has improved Cesar\u2019s pay to reflect the hectic shifts on World Cup match days; and the workers hope similar wins will follow for American football\u2014 SoFi is the home venue for the NFL\u2019s Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers\u2014and the 2028 Olympics. <\/p>\n

Like more than 100 other stadium, airport, and hotel concessions contracts, this one expires just before the 2028 Summer Olympics\u2014when the prospect of a strike is again the last thing stadiums want.<\/p>

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