Hotel Workers Risk Arrest for Health Insurance - NAM
() Hotel workers in San Francisco, many of them immigrant women, are risking mass civil disobedience to get their employers to cover their medical insurance. Full Story »
Posted by Brandon Jones - via New America Media
Being a Bay Area resident, I found this article particularly fascinating. The article introduced me to two women who have been part of the immigrant work force, in this case working behind the scenes for San Francisco's leading source of revenue: tourism. What they demand is fair and important, and these strong women, from very different backgrounds, have come together to show that they will no longer be mistreated, even if it means going to jail. They speak for an enormous population of immigrants working in California.