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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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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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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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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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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As California becomes a Pacific Rim state with an increasingly large Asian population, the opinions and concerns of Chinese and Korean communities become even more important in the national debate over war in Iraq. In Chinatowns and Koreatowns, write PNS
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Over the weekend of Feb. 15-16, in more than 600 cities and towns around the world, more than 20 million people linked arms in a vast tide of resistance against Washington’s rush to war. Here in California, about 150,000 people
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A thousand immigrants and longtime Americans — representing dozens of community groups and bound by fear of how much worse their lives could get if a war erupted — came together Sunday for the first time. Connie Liu, a 40-year-old
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Immigrant Chinese workers rallied at City Hall yesterday, protesting their sudden layoff from a San Francisco electronics manufacturer last week. Lee Mah Electronics fired about 250 employees, 15 percent of its workforce, from its Folsom Street plant on Friday, according
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Santa Isabel German tips back the lid of a heavy iron pot to reveal the source of the tantalizing aroma that fills her room. It’s a stew of chicken, tomatoes, chiles, cilantro — the same caldo de pollo she once
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