{"id":49222,"date":"2022-05-20T14:39:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T14:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/?p=49222"},"modified":"2022-05-20T14:39:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T14:39:53","slug":"ufcw-honors-asian-american-and-pacific-islander-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/ufcw-honors-asian-american-and-pacific-islander-heritage-month\/","title":{"rendered":"UFCW Honors Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May marks Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, which celebrates the rich history and contributions of the AAPI community in the United States.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The origins of this celebration date back to 1977, when Representative Frank Horton of New York and Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii introduced resolutions to proclaim a week in May as Pacific\/Asian American Heritage Week. When neither of these resolutions passed, Representative Horton introduced a similar resolution in 1978, which was passed by the House and Senate and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter that same year. In 1992, Congress designated the month of May as Asian\/Pacific American Heritage Month to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to the U.S. on May 7, 1843, and the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emerging from a history of legalized exclusion\u2014ranging from barriers to entering the U.S. to restrictions from participating in acts like owning land\u2014the role Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have played in labor history is an important one. Labor heroes like Philip Vera Cruz, a Filipino labor organizer instrumental in the formation of the United Farm Workers Union, and Gene Viernes and Silme Domingo, who co founded the Alaska Cannery Workers Association, were instrumental in building an AAPI labor alliance and helped move towards an era where there are now more than 600,000 AAPI union members across the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The myth that Asian Americans represent the model minority also covers up significant racial and pay disparities. Asian American and Pacific Islander women are paid 85 cents for every dollar paid to white men, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aauw.org\/resources\/article\/equal-pay-day-calendar\/\">May 3<\/a> marks the day when Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander women\u2019s earnings finally catch up to what white, non-Hispanic men made in 2021 for doing the same work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UFCW not only pays tribute to the culture and history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders but also recognizes their impact on the labor movement and the nation as a whole. We must now recommit to fight the surge of anti-Asian hate crimes and other incidents around bias, xenophobia, and harassment that surfaced throughout the COVID-19 global pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month by learning more about trailblazers and leaders who have left an undeniable mark on the labor movement:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"image\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-01-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49225\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-01-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-01-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-01-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-01-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-01-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-01-2048x2048.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"heading\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Philip Vera Cruz<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vera Cruz was a Filipino American and a labor rights activist who led many social justice initiatives for agricultural workers. After immigrating from the Philippines, Vera Cruz worked as a farmworker picking grapes, lettuce, and asparagus in Delano, Central Valley, CA, where he faced difficult working conditions that led him to join the Agricultural Worker Organizing Committee (AWOC), where he emerged as a leader in farmworkers\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1965, Vera Cruz and others began the Delano Grape Strike demanding a pay increase from the company. As the five-year strike gained national and international support, AWOC was backed by the National Farm Workers of America, which led to the eventual merging of the two groups to form the United Farm Workers (UFW) under Cesar Chavez, with Philip Vera Cruz as its vice-president and highest-ranking Filipino officer. By 1970, the UFW won a contract with major grape growers across California.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After his tenure as Vice President ended in 1977, he helped to found the Farm Workers Credit Union and the Agbayani Village, a retirement home for farmworkers.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aasc.ucla.edu\/resources\/untoldstories\/UCRS_Philip_Vera_Cruz_r2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"image\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-02-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49228\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-02-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-02-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-02-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-02-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-02-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-02-2048x2048.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"heading\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">May Chen<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chen is a labor organizer and an advocate for immigrant workers. In 1982, she led the New York Chinatown garment workers&#8217; strike with about 20,000 factory workers &#8211; predominantly Chinese immigrant women &#8211; marching the streets of New York City demanding work contracts.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/garment-workers-strike-chinatown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2<\/a><\/sup> Within a few days, employers agreed to sign the union contract, marking a major win for Chinatown\u2019s garment workers.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/laborcenter.berkeley.edu\/pdf\/2009\/quan_amerasia09.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3<\/a><\/sup> Following the strike, Chen would become the legal assistant and educational director of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), contributing to Chinatown\u2019s activism for the next several decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Along with other members of the ILGWU, Chen also co-founded the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, the first national organization for Asian Pacific American union members. Before retiring in 2009, she served as international vice president of UNITE HERE.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/aaww.org\/chinatown-garment-strike-1982\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">4<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"image\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-03-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49232\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-03-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-03-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-03-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-03-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-03-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-03-2048x2048.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"heading\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes were second-generation Filipino Americans and pioneering union reformers. As members of Local 37 of the International Longshoremen&#8217;s and Warehousemen&#8217;s Union in Alaska, they formed the Alaska Cannery Workers&#8217; Association (ACWA)&nbsp; where they shed light on racism within the local office and cannery companies. The ACWA helped workers file and win class action lawsuits against the Alaska canneries charging discriminatory practices in employment.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/domingo-viernes-union-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">5<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Domingo and Viernes also ran for election as officers in the local and fought against the local\u2019s corruption and favoritism. They also pushed for reforms to strengthen ties between the ILWU rank and file workers and a labor movement in the Philippines fighting against the dictatorial regime of Ferdinand Marcos.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On June 1, 1981, the two reform-minded leaders were assassinated by their own Local 37 president and two other men in broad daylight while working at their union hall in Seattle, WA. The president was ultimately arrested for their murders due to the victims\u2019 families years long campaign to bring the perpetrators to justice.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.seattletimes.com\/archive\/?date=19900906&amp;slug=1091699\">6<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"image\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-04-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49236\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-04-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-04-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-04-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-04-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-04-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-04-2048x2048.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"heading\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Ai-Jen Poo<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ai-jen Poo is a labor activist and current president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Poo began organizing domestic workers in 1996 and co-founded Domestic Workers United (DWU), a New York City-wide, multiracial organization of domestic workers. In 2010, the organization led the way to the passage of the nation\u2019s first Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, a historic legislation that guaranteed domestic workers labor protections in New York state.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/aflcio.org\/2021\/3\/31\/profiles-courage-celebrating-aapi-labor-activists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">7<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the legislation\u2019s passage, \u201cthe National Domestic Workers Alliance has passed Domestic Worker Bills of Rights in 10 states, the cities of Seattle and Philadelphia, and brought over 2 million home care workers under minimum wage protections.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.domesticworkers.org\/press\/spokespersons\/ai-jen-poo\/\"><sup>8<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"image\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-05-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49239\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-05-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-05-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-05-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-05-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-05-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-05-2048x2048.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"heading\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Larry Itliong<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Larry Itliong was a Filipino American labor leader who worked as a laborer and farmworker on the west coast, particularly in California. After experiencing first hand the way Filipinos and immigrants were mistreated and underpaid, Itliong dedicated his life to advancing farmworkers rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the late 1950s, he founded the Filipino Farm Labor Union and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC). Itliong later organized a group of Filipinos to strike against grape growers in Delano joining forces with the&nbsp; Mexican-dominated National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. AWOC and NFWA later merged together to create the United Farm Workers Union (UFW), with Cesar Chavez as director and Larry Itliong as assistant director. \u201cThe Delano grape strike lasted for five years and became one of the most pivotal labor movements in the history of the United States.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Itliong continued his commitment to labor by organizing with the UFW and the Filipino American Political Alliance until his death in 1977.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/1960s\/larry-itliong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">9<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"image\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-06-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49241\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-06-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-06-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-06-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-06-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-06-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-06-2048x2048.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"heading\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Sue Ko Lee and the Dollar Store Strikers<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sue Koe Lee was a Chinese American garment worker and labor organizer. Lee worked at the National Dollar Store garment factory in San Francisco, CA, in sweatshop conditions in the 1930s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the late 1930s, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) began to organize Chinese women for the first time. Lee and her co-workers voted to join ILGWU leading to the formation of the Chinese Ladies\u2019 Garment Workers\u2019 Union Local 341. The owner of the National Dollar Store sold the company to a new company headed by the factory manager and a former employee in an attempt to get out of the contract and break the union.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lee and her fellow workers organized a strike that would last more than three years &#8211; at the time it was the longest strike in the history of San Francisco\u2019s Chinatown. The strike was successful and won the workers a new contract and improved salaries. Unfortunately, the recently unionized factory went out of business the following year and Lee went on to become a staff member of the local union.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/people\/sue-ko-lee.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"image\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-07-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49244\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-07-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-07-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-07-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-07-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-07-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/61\/files\/2022\/05\/AAPI-Month-Graphics-07-2048x2048.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"heading\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Jung Sai Garment Workers Strike, 1974<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Jung Sai strike of 135 workers, mainly women, took place in San Francisco\u2019s Chinatown from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. The strikers were mainly Chinese immigrant workers who fought against harassment, intimidation, and low wages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After over a year of striking, arrests, and court injunctions, the workers gained popular support and won a contract with improved salaries and benefits, inspiring immigrant labor activism across the country.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/aflcio.org\/2019\/5\/30\/asian-pacific-american-heritage-month-profiles-jung-sai-garment-work-strikers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">11<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"html\">\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sources:<\/strong><br>AFL-CIO<br>Amerasia Journal<br>Asian American Writers&#8217; 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