Chinese Progressive Association
Asian Law Caucus
Progressive Workers Alliance
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, February 15, 2012
CONTACT:
Shaw San Liu
Winnie Kao
Josue Arguelles
IMMIGRANT WORKERS RECOVER NEARLY $400,000 IN WAGE THEFT SETTLEMENTS
Collaborations with City and State
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A group of immigrants who worked at a Vietnamese restaurant in San Francisco’s Richmond District have been awarded more than $300,000 in a major wage theft case.
Luong Vuong was a waiter for more than a year at the Pho
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A group of immigrants who worked at a Vietnamese restaurant in San Francisco’s Richmond District have been awarded more than $300,000 in a major wage theft case.
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Link: How San Francisco Organizers Rewrote the Rules to Save Minimum Wage
David Zlutnick
Colorlines
January 27, 2012
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Today, hundreds of community members from the Chinese Progressive Association and the Progressive Workers Alliance (PWA) took part in a national Day of Action with Occupy Wall Street West, which aimed to shut down San Francisco’s Financial District. The day is significant because it is the eve of the two year anniversary of the infamous Citizens United ruling that recognized corporations as “people,” and gave them new rights to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence political campaigns. This ruling by the Supreme Court effectively allows corporations to buy our elections and our politicians, and influences American politics to benefit the 1%. As a result of Citizens United, outside groups spent more than four times as much money to influence the 2010 elections as they did in 2006, the last mid-term cycle. Read More
A political campaign by San Francisco’s well-heeled “property owners” was launched to influence police and politicians to aggressively demobilize Occupy SF and to dismantle their encampments. And, there are documents to prove it.
Things did not start out this way.
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SAN FRANCISCO RATE OF $10.24 GIVES SOME WORKERS A LIFT, BUT ADDS TO BUSINESSES’ COSTS; CUSTOMERS COULD END UP PAYING
San Francisco on Jan. 1 will become the first big city in the U.S. with a minimum wage topping $10
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THE RIGHT WAY TO REBUILD CPMC: PRESENTING THE COMMUNITY BENEFITS AGREEMENT
OPINION As 2011 comes to an end, San Francisco witnesses yet another year with community stakeholders and city officials mired in conflict over Sutter Health’s plans to rebuild its
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Just a few days after the release of a study finding that California Pacific Medical Center remains highly profitable and capable of a greater share of charity health care in the City than it claims, the San Francisco Board of
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Lack of Charity: Report Says CPMC is Extracting Huge Profits from San Francisco but Doing Little Charity Care
Activists and city officials are challenging California Pacific Medical Center — which a new study shows provides far less charity care than
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