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Long Island Restaurant Workers Continue Strike Against Stolen Tips & Retaliation!

In late August, waiters and buspersons launched a strike at the East Buffet Restaurant in Huntington, Long Island where the employers stole the workers' tips and then retaliated against them for speaking out and organizing. Last week, the workers also filed a federal lawsuit against their employer. The workers-all of whom are Chinese immigrants-are picketing daily during the lunch and dinner shifts and need your support!

• Sun. January 8, 12pm - Long Island groups & unions Demonstrate at East Buffet [1/5/2006]

• Letter from the East Buffet Workers in Support of the Union

• "East Buffet sued for paying workers as little as $1 an hour" by Tomoeh Murakamitse in Newsday, September 9, 2005

• "Workers' non-compensation? Buffet workers picket, citing low pay, stolen tips" by Michael White in the Daily News, August 24, 2005