SAN FRANCISCO – Li Shuang Li waited tables six days a week in a San Francisco Chinatown restaurant where workers were yelled at for carrying only one pot of tea in each hand. She had no health insurance, sick days
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SAN FRANCISCO – City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed suit Tuesday against a Chinatown restaurant and pastry shop for alleged underpayment of workers.
Herrera said in a news release that he was hoping to recover $440,000 in back pay for seven
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Enough with the insular, mysterious Chinatown stereotype. The Chinese Progressive Association has been locating itself within the greater framework of the fight for social justice since 1971, when it broke into the SF political scene challenging assertions that Chinese
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Members of Youth MOJO share their experiences and what they learned from CPA’s US/Mexico Border Exposure Trip. Listen on APEX Express.
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For one of this country’s first government hearings regarding wage theft yesterday (Thurs/12), San Francisco activists, public employees, and politicians alike were determined to find ways to address issues surrounding low-income workers who are paid below minimum wage or otherwise
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2011-05-12
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=aPkZIIFdHHs
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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — San Francisco supervisors are considering a new law to protect worker’s wages and benefits. Advocates say workers in a number of industries are being denied their legal due.
There is a staggering statistic coming out of
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Wage Theft Rally
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May 12, 2011
Link: Wage Theft Rally
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – May 12, 2011 at 6:00pm
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Low-wage workers from the Progressive Workers’ Alliance demand an end to wage theft in San Francisco. Listen at: 32:53.
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My comments focus on the challenges and opportunities to engage documented immigrants in this current juncture of the immigrant rights movement, which has existed in different forms since the creation of this country by brutal force and economic exploitation of immigrant labor including most extremely slaves from Africa. Read More