Voters will decide in November whether to mandate employer paid sick days for all employees in San Francisco.
If approved by voters, San Francisco would become the first city in the nation to require paid sick days, according to
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Last week workers in San Francisco won a major victory through the passage of Tom Ammiano’s universal health security ordinance. The ordinance, which guaranteed coverage for the uninsured residents of the city, affirmed the mayor and Board of Supervisors’ support for the labor community. Read More
The Golden Dragon may have roared its last, but the death of this notorious Chinatown restaurant -- the scene of a gang massacre in 1977 -- has left behind trail of lawsuits, and workers are complaining it stiffed them out of a year's worth of unpaid wages. Read More
A San Francisco garment factory bowed to grassroots pressure from former workers and agreed Thursday to pay more than $500,000 in severance pay to 140 low-wage workers it laid off. Read More
An emerging form of unconventional labor organizing is taking root in immigrant communities, providing services, networks and hope where mainstream unions and state protections have fallen short.
Dec. 30, 2005 – The workers did not understand what the papers said
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Remberto Sandoval was glad to have work last spring painting houses in San Francisco for $8 an hour, 12 to 15 hours a day. But after two months of short paychecks, he quit and complained to the state labor commissioner, along with close to 50,000 other workers this year. Read More
Qiong Zhen Xu marks her calendar with a black pencil every time she catches a rodent in her narrow room in a small building on Broadway in San Francisco's Chinatown. Using wooden traps she sets each night, she has killed 39 since March in the room she has rented for a decade. Rats have chewed through the lining of a fuzzy jacket of hers and through one of her felt slippers, she said, pointing out the damage. Read More
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
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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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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