Whether in Kansas, Florida, Iowa, New York, California, or places in between, if you are a low wage worker, you are at high risk for wage theft - unpaid, delayed or subminimum wages. A long list of recent stories in the mainstream press has highlighted such practices - with Asian Pacific Islander, African American, Latino and young workers the likeliest targets - and the fight-back growing stronger.
One such fight-back is being waged here. The San Francisco-based Chinese Progressive Association last month released a far-reaching report on the problems faced by restaurant workers in this city’s Chinatown, based on surveys of 433 restaurant workers interviewed by their peers, and observations of 106 restaurants.
The study, “Check Please”, conducted in partnership with the San Francisco
http://www.peoplesworld.org/assets/Printable-Editions/11-05chi.pdf
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