SF Gate — Chinatown’s Slums
NO ONE would ever think that beyond the gloriously decorated gate on Grant Avenue marking the entrance to San Francisco's historic Chinatown are thousands of low-income tenants living in slum like conditions. Read More
SF Gate — Sweatshop Crackdown
BY LAUNCHING a campaign to eliminate worldwide sweatshop-labor abuse, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Tom Ammiano made a powerful statement denouncing a global travesty. From China to Mexico, garment workers — many of whom are young children —
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SF Gate – SAN FRANCISCO / Garment workers protest layoffs
More than 100 Chinese immigrant garment workers marched from San Francisco’s Union Square to protest outside Nova Knits Inc., in the South of Market area Tuesday, contending the company has violated federal layoff and plant-closure laws.
Last month, the knitting
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SF Gate — Long Overdue Paychecks
WITH ONE ACT of courage and defiance, five Chinese Americans have set a precedent for thousands of immigrant workers.
For six months, more than 30 employees at San Francisco’s historic Golden Dragon restaurant in Chinatown went without a paycheck, living
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SF Gate — No Sitting Down On the Job
San Francisco is famous for food. Yet the folks who cook it, wait on tables, wash the dishes and do the many other jobs that make restaurants work are almost invisible. Twelve million people work in this country’s restaurants, according
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SF Gate — Lifting of import quotas a blow to garment factories / Bay Area apparel industry tattered by overseas competition — immigrant workers try to start over after layoffs
Jenny Kwong sewed up a lacy green gown as Cantonese music blasted in the background one recent evening.
Falling business had forced the San Francisco factory owner back behind the sewing machine. What her workers produced covered the rent on
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SF Gate — Ben Davis Signs Worker Contract: S.F. Garmentmaker Ends Yearlong Dispute Over Minimum Wage
The Ben Davis Co., one of San Francisco’s oldest unionized clothing manufacturers, has agreed to a contract covering about 100 immigrant San Francisco garment workers, ending a yearlong dispute over wages and benefits, advocates for the employees said Wednesday.
The
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SF Gate — Employees Say Firms Using Bankruptcy to Not Pay Wages
About 50 immigrant Chinese American workers demonstrated against labor abuses in San Francisco on Wednesday, citing instances in which they said companies had used bankruptcy laws to get out of paying their employees.
Workers called for more aggressive enforcement of
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SF Gate — Minimum Wage Jump Welcomed / Increase Can Mean a lot to Those Earning a Little
Aiza Baclit and Marvin Llaga take home about $1,500 every month as workers at Jollibee Restaurant, known as the “Filipino McDonald’s,” in the South of Market District of San Francisco. Of that combined net pay, $300 is earmarked to assist
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SF Gate — S.F. Program to Fight SARS
Leon Chow, chairman of the Chinese Progressive Association in San Francisco, announces a program to help hospital workers in SARS-affected Hong Kong. It will send hospital masks and other medical supplies and money, as well as a quilt decorated with
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