The Anaheim Ducks will face off against the Colorado Avalanche at home tonight as the playoffs loom on the horizon. Honda Center food stand workers will take the occasion to reach out to hockey fans. 

The Anaheim Ducks have been back on the ice since the NHL lockout ended earlier this year. The Honda Center, where they play their home games, still harbors worries about the future employment of other workers. Meanwhile, those who run the arena's concession stands are on the edge of an expiring contract and don't know if they will be back next season.

"I need this job," Anaheim resident Jeanette Lister says in a UNITE HERE Local 11 press release. "But the Honda Center also needs me. This is a fast moving job, but I know how to keep my stand running efficiently."

She and her fellow coworkers will be taking concerns about the future status of their employment to the Anaheim City Council meeting this evening.

Picketing workers assembled along Orangethorpe Avenue in Placentia today outside Prime Waterproofing Incorporated. In an action sponsored by Chican@s Unidos, they held signs calling out local contractor Paul LaHaye as a rat for questionable practices in an ongoing labor dispute.

As owner of the company, LaHaye was hit with wage violation complaints from Jesus and Jose Ramirez, two employees who filed them on September 5, 2012. Prime Waterproofing was formally served a month later. Shortly after, LaHaye contacted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on the father and son from Norwalk.

"My dad actually just got his work permit," Jose Ramirez tells the Weekly. But as a 19-year-old, he himself was still in the process of applying for a work permit under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) memorandum. Lawyers with Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, the firm representing the workers, took the issue very seriously, warning the family to leave their house and not to open the door if ICE agents arrived.

Hundreds of union members and allies rallied in front of Anaheim City Hall today to announce their support for "comprehensive immigration reform," which everyone and their cousin knows as amnesty. The press conference was called by the Orange County Labor Federation and featured leaders from the religious, union, and immigrant communities as speakers.

Latino and union voters were loyal and pivotal in re-electing President Barack Obama to a second term, but his administration has presided over more deportations than any other in history. The big question for the rally: Would today's launch firmly pressure the Executive Office or be hushed in tone about the elephant (or donkey) in the room?

Earlier this year, the Texas-based snack food company agreed to settle the case before an Orange County jury inside the Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse could hear the issues by promising to craft new company rules that don't violate workers' rights laws.

Now, a federal judge in Santa Ana has handed Frito-Lay a $737,000 bill.