Boycott Majestic Buffet -
Support the Workers!
Dear Friends:
A labor dispute is heating up in the quiet town of Wayne,
NJ, where Majestic Buffet & Restaurant owners David Yeung
and Jane Ho forced their workers to pay them in order to work.
Six servers have filed a federal lawsuit against Majestic
Buffet for minimum wage and overtime violations and for stealing
tips. The owners forced workers to work more than 70 hours
a week without paying them a single cent in wages. The owners
even forced their workers to pay $15-$20 from their tips per
day in order to work at the restaurant. They regularly extorted
money from the workers for arbitrary reasons. Servers had
to pay a $10 “penalty” each time the owners deemed
they didn’t clean a table, arrange plates, or scrub a
dirty plate properly. They also had to pay for customers who
walked out on their check. Furthermore, the owners cheated
workers of their taxes, including their social security tax.
When six workers walked out in public protest against Majestic
Buffet’s illegal policies, the owners resorted to threats
and retaliatory actions against the workers. The owners still
refuse to reinstate the workers, threatening them to withdraw
the lawsuit and preventing other workers from speaking to
them. A few days ago, the National Labor Relations Board filed
a complaint against Majestic Buffet for these unfair labor
practices.
Labor violations, such as these, are rampant in the New Jersey
restaurant industry. Particularly in Chinese buffet restaurants
in New Jersey, employers force people to work long hours without
paying any wages. We call on the NJ state government and its
elected officials to investigate these practices in the restaurant
industry.
Support the Majestic Buffet & Restaurant workers and the
JWBS! Campaign to fight for changes in the New Jersey restaurant
industry by boycotting Majestic Buffet & Restaurant and
join us:
this Friday, November 10th at 12pm at
MAJESTIC RESTAURANT & BUFFET for a
PRESS CONFERENCE and PROTEST
29 Route 23 South; Wayne, NJ 07470
(b/t Willowbrook Blvd. and Bloomsfield Ave., near Willowbrook
Mall)
We demand that Majestic Buffet & Restaurant owners David
Yeung and Jane Ho immediately stop these unfair labor practices,
and reinstate the workers and compensate them for any lost
wages.
For more information, contact JWBS! at (212) 334-2333.
Sincerely,
Josephine Lee
JWBS! Campaign Coordinator
Justice Will Be Served! (JWBS) is a campaign that unites restaurant,
hotel, deli, and other service workers in different communities
across New York to fight against long hours, second-class
wages, stolen tips and other sweatshop conditions.
JWBS! is composed of a coalition of organizations:
318 Restaurant Workers Union, Chinese Staff & Workers'
Association,
National Mobilization Against Sweatshops
c/o CSWA P.O. Box 130401 , New York, NY 10013-0995 ;
tel: 212-334-2333; fax: 212-334-1974
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