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The steps leading to the Queens Public Library in Flushing were overflowing with protesters Wednesday demanding an end to the 24-hour workday and accountability from their employer, CPC — prompting a stern denial from the organization.
Led by the Ain’t I a Woman?! Campaign, advocates, elected officials, and workers—who say they have long suffered mistreatment—gathered on the afternoon of Jan. 12 in response to a report on the Chinese American Planning Council (CPC) filed by Assemblymember Ron Kim. The 103-page memo filed on Jan. 4 accuses the service provider of excessive wage theft at the expense of its 4,500 home health aides in New York City, among other abuses.
On Wednesday these workers assembled to thank Kim for the exposé and to demand that CPC be held responsible while also requesting for retroactive wage repayment.
One worker by the name of Gui Zhu Chen alleged that she was threatened by the CPC for requesting that she be paid for working night shifts in what she called a 24-hour workday.
“CPC threatened me, saying that this is not true,” Chen said with the help of a translator, adding that she was warned to stop pursing the matter or CPC would have are arrested. “‘You are extorting the government and I will sue you and put you in jail,'” Chen said she was told. She also explained that CPC stated that they had no intention of paying her what she was owed.
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