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Restaurant Workers Fight for Back Wages and Minimum Wage Enforcement
This is taken from the CPA-San Francisco Newsletter
Chinese Progressive Assn. - SF
posted 1/19/05
Last November, CPA and our allies celebrated a major victory with the landslide passage of Proposition L, the San Francisco Minimum Wage Ordinance (MWO) which established a local minimum wage of $8.50 per hour (the highest in the country) and increased the income of San Francisco’s 54,000 lowest paid workers by a combined $100 million per year. Unfortunately, many of the City’s most exploited workers, still have not benefited from this groundbreaking economic justice victory because the City has done little to enforce the MWO. Violations of the MWO are particularly widespread in industries with high concentrations of immigrant workers including the restaurant and garment industries.
Workers, CPA and allies have been working to ensure that San Francisco’s groundbreaking MWO is fully enforced. Over the past several months, CPA has supported a group of 12 immigrant Chinese workers from the King Tin Restaurant, one of Chinatowns’s oldest and most popular eating establishments, to collect over $450,000, which includes local and State minimum wage violations, unpaid overtime, meals, breaks and penalties. Some King Tin workers labored for 95 hours per week for less than $4 per hour. The workers are demanding that City and State labor agencies collect the unpaid wages and penalties and punish the King Tin Corporation owners.
photo courtesy CPA-SF
