Chinese Progressive Association
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: 7 June 2018
Contact:
Shaw San Liu, (English & Chinese) 415-999-8447
Kome Seafood Buffet Workers Demand that Owners Comply Immediately with Labor Commissioner’s $5.16 Million Citation
Investigation reveals wage theft of 130
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A Google Street View shows the exterior of Kome Japanese Seafood Buffet in Daly City in December. The restaurant has been accused of stealing $5 million in wages from 133 workers.
Investigators at California’s Division of Labor Standards Enforcement said
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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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黃先生在會上講述自己多年前被僱主打壓。記者梁穎欣攝
華人進步會及一眾華裔市民加入集會，抗議特朗普政府。記者梁穎欣攝
五月一日是國際勞動節，由進步勞工聯盟（Progressive Workers Alliance）發起的工人抗議集會在三藩市米慎區進行，反對特朗普政府，抗議移民局掃蕩、逼遷等。
進步勞工聯盟由八個灣區進步派民間組織組成，代表學生、學者、女性、工人、藝術家和年輕人，且種族多元，包括菲律賓、非裔以及華人進步會等。約60名示威者手持中英標語，包括「抗排斥 護家庭」、「拒絕分化 社區共融」、「發展商唯利是圖 小百姓水深火熱」，大喊口號呼籲工人團結對抗。
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In November of 2012, 200 workers in New York City walked off their fast-food restaurant jobs to participate in a one-day strike protesting the low pay and poor working conditions endemic to the fast food industry. It was, according to the New York Times, "the biggest wave of job actions in the history of America's fast-food industry." Read More
Yesterday, Chinese Progressive Association Youth MOJO (Youth Movement of Justice and Organizing) leaders joined nearly 200 other high school youth in the Bay Area in front of San Francisco City Hall to speak out against violence. As part of a larger nationwide effort to protest our leaders’ failure to pass laws that protect us from gun violence, students turned out from Washington, Lincoln, Lowell, Galileo, June Jordan, and many more high schools. Read More
This Friday, April 20, Chinese Progressive Association Youth MOJO (Youth Movement of Justice and Organizing) members joined nearly 200 other high school youth in the Bay Area in front of San Francisco City Hall as part of a nationwide school walkout to speak out against violence. This action is part of a larger, nationwide effort to protest our leaders’ failure to pass laws that protect us from gun violence, particularly in response to the recent shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Students turned out from from Washington, Lincoln, Lowell, Galileo, June Jordan, and many more high schools. Read More
Like many of you, this morning, we woke up to the news of Mayor Ed Lee’s sudden passing. We were deeply saddened to hear this news and send condolences to his family. We join the rest of Chinatown and San Francisco community in mourning this great loss. Read More
兩周前在維吉尼亞州夏洛茲維爾市，一名白人至上主義者駕車撞向反示威人群，導致一名女子海耶(Heather Heyer)被撞身亡。事件引起全國震驚，總統川普三度回應事件，譴責「雙方」，引發持續抗議聲浪。 25日多個華人團體在華埠發起燭光悼念，紀念早前在維州發生的流血衝突。 Read More
譴責仇恨、悼念維州騷亂事件的「燭光遍華埠」晚會，昨晚（25日）在三藩市華埠舉行。聯合主辦單位有：華人進步會、中華文化中心、華人權益促進會、華協中心、美華協會三藩市分部、猶太教組織等，近500人參與，希爾頓酒店提供場地等後勤支持。 Read More