SAN FRANCISCO – A crowd of at least 100 people gathered outside the Union Square Apple store yesterday evening for what may be the first large-scale American protest of Foxxconn, a Chinese factory that produces iPads and iPhones.
As SF
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Shaw San Liu of the Chinese Progressive Association, San Francisco. https://cpasf.org
For communities of color, ‘recovery’ can be a vapid term. People of color consistently face rates of unemployment higher than what whites experience in the worst recessions. Meanwhile, people
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GREEN CITY Local residents, workers, and businesses are anxious to learn who and what will be stimulated by the billions of dollars that President Barack Obama authorized for release when he signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Since January
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In my weekly read of the San Francisco Business Times (Sun Tzu taught his warriors to “know your enemy”), a seemingly-out-of-place opinion piece about our collapsing economy caught my eye. “It’s obvious that the people who say ‘no one saw this coming’ are liars,” writes Neil Westergaard, the editor of the Denver Business Journal. “The negligence is unconscionable. The behaviors are reprehensible.” Read More
SAN FRANCISCO – When young people talk about such grim issues as cancer, asthma and heart disease, people generally listen. That’s what 32 Chinese and Hispanic teenagers, all from San Francisco's Chinatown and Mission Districts, have been doing for the last couple of years. They have been going door to door in southeast San Francisco neighborhoods to promote a healthy environment in their communities. Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Several workers at a now-defunct Chinese restaurant received long awaited back pay Thursday after the cash from a minimum wage settlement was delivered into their hands.
The checks, enclosed in red Chinese New Year gift envelopes, ranged
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If you haven’t heard of the Monster Cable Products labor controversy, it’s a lesson in the unexpected ironies of our globalized economy. Judging from the Monster affair, cheap immigrant labor just isn’t cheap enough anymore. Last October the company laid
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About 70 workers fired by Monster Cable sang carols in protest Friday afternoon outside the company's headquarters in Brisbane, demanding better severance packages and a fund to pay for job training. Read More
Workers in this city could become the first in the nation to be guaranteed paid sick leave after voters go to the polls her and across the country next Tuesday.
Proposition F on the city’s ballot would require that employees
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The Golden Dragon, a Chinatown restaurant that was closed because of health violations in January, must pay more than $1 million in back wages and penalties to 37 workers for violating the city's minimum wage law, an administrative hearing officer has ruled. Read More