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A past year of great achievements for all workers!

Home attendants and many other workers recovered tens of millions of dollars in stolen wages. Two hundred workers and young people became new members. Our community also won the following important victories, which are truly worth celebrating.

Justice for Homecare Workers!

With the support of our organization, home attendants successfully exposed the reactionary alliance between CPC, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, and Governor Kathy Hochul. As a result, despite being backed by many high‑ranking Democratic politicians, Adrienne Adams suffered a devastating defeat in the mayoral race, winning only 4% of the vote. The new City Council Speaker Julie Menin has already signed onto the “No More 24 Act” abolishing the 24‑hour workday, so the bill is certain to pass in 2026!

Unionized home attendants, with the help of attorneys and our organization, successfully sued the Department of Labor for failing to enforce the law. The court ordered the Department of Labor to assist unionized workers in recovering their unpaid wages. Although Governor Hochul appealed this ruling, she only further exposed her misconduct, following the same path as former Speaker Adams.

Fighting Against Displacement and Taking Back Our Community

Big real estate developers spent over one million dollars trying to defeat Councilmember Christopher Marte in the election. But with strong support from workers across industries, Marte won re‑election by a wide margin — winning the majority of votes at every polling site in his district. No candidate in this district had ever achieved this before. As a result, certain Chinese‑language newspapers that deliberately smeared Marte have lost much of their influence. People’s will cannot be hindered by reporters who promote racism.

Thanks to the labor movement, the anti‑displacement campaign, and Councilmember Marte’s persistent negotiation with the City, the Elizabeth Street Garden near the Chinese community has been preserved, and the City has committed to building more truly affordable housing nearby. This paves the way for stopping the construction of a mega-jail in Chinatown and for building more low‑income housing instead.

Let’s continue our efforts in the new year!

Join us to organize more people to pressure Governor Kathy Hochul to recover stolen wages. Caring for everyone’s health and future, we will also fight for universal healthcare, expanding worker‑led victories across all of New York State!

If you have not yet paid your membership dues or wish to donate and join our organization, please stop by our center!

Wishing everyone good fortune in the Year of the Horse and success in all endeavors. Please bring your family and friends to join our annual Lunar New Year celebration.
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大家好，过去一年是我们工人大丰收的一年。不但协助护理和其他工友追回上千万的血汗钱，组织近二百位工友和年轻人成为新会员，还协助工友和社区争取到以下成绩，可喜可贺：

护理们在本会协助下，成功地暴露华策会、市议长欧德思和胡楚州长的丑恶反动联盟。导致市议长欧德思虽然得到多数民主党大佬级政客的支持，却遭受惨败，只得4%的选票。新市议长已经支持废除24小时工作日的法案，所以2026年法案必然通过！
有工会的护理在律师们和本会的协助下，成功地起诉劳工局不执法。法院下令劳工局必须协助参加工会的工人追讨欠薪。虽然州长胡楚上诉法庭的判决，却只是更暴露州长贪赃枉法，步前市议长欧徳思的后尘。
大地产商花了超过一百万美元试图在选举中打败市议员马泰，但在各行业工友的鼎力支持下，马泰不但高票连任，还破天荒在他选区的每个投票站都赢得多数选票。过去没有一个侯选议员可以做到。令到一些刻意丑化马泰的华人报纸都已失去影响力。人心所向，不是这些带有种族歧视的记者可以阻挡的。
在工人运动和反逼迁运动的推动以及马泰与市府不断的周旋之下，华人社区附近的伊莉莎白街花园得到保留，并得到保证在附近建更多的真正可负担住房。这为下一步停止在华埠起巨型监狱，建更多低收入房屋铺路。

让我们在新的一年里，再接再厉，组织更多的人对胡楚州长施加更大的压力，追回血汗钱。而且为了大家的健康和未来，争取全民保健以及将害人的州长胡楚拉下马，将我们工人领导的佳绩推广到全纽约州去。

马年行好运，马到成功，希望大家踊跃携带家人和朋友参加一年一度的春节联欢会。

日期：2026年3月14日，星期六上午11点正
地点：苏域柏中学，纽约市格兰街350号（350 Grand St）
**如果你尚未交会费或想参加本会，请你到会一行
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[:en]On Feb 27, Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC) had NYPD arrest 7 workers in an attempt to suppress the picket line demanding CPC pay back $90 million in stolen wages. Yesterday, the 7 protesters arrested at CPC’s Gala had their court hearing, and all their charges were dismissed! The judge ruled that the NYPD didn’t have sufficient reasons to make the arrests.

In a statement released by the arrestees, they said, “Today we were joined by home attendant supporters in court. The judge heard what it is that we are fighting for – the end to the violent, 24-hour workday that CPC perpetuates. In the end, the judge dismissed all the charges.”

“CPC tried to intimidate workers by using police violence. But it failed! Workers are more angry and determined than ever and vow to continue to picket CPC until they pay back their hard-earned wages!”

They urge people to join the weekly picket in front of CPC’s luxury building at 45 Suffolk St, Wednesdays, 10am-11:30am.

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[:en]NY, New York – Thursday night, the Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC) used a brutal NYPD crackdown to attack over 100 women-of-color home care workers picketing outside its decadent 60th Anniversary fundraising gala at Cipriani on Wall Street, committing 7 arrests — including that of a pregnant woman and a 60-year-old senior.

“Tonight we have over a hundred of fellow home care workers protesting,” said Ai Yu Zeng, a home care worker who was arrested. “All we’re doing is exposing CPC’s lies! We’re condemning their abuse of us immigrant women with continued 24-hour workdays. Now, CPC not only refuses to pay us back the $90 million stolen wages, but even calls the police to arrest me on the spot! When young people saw that and condemned the police’s violence against me, they, in turn, were also arrested. How evil!”

While many home care agencies have already implemented split shifts, CPC still assigns 24-hour home care shifts and just received contracts worth $7 billion a year from Governor Kathy Hochul to monopolize the consumer-direct home care market in NYC, Long Island, and Westchester. Protestors were peacefully picketing on the sidewalk when CPC sent violent cops to suppress protesters and arrest elderly Asian home attendants. 

“Cops moved in shortly after CPC sent someone to rob a journalist of her live-streaming phone from mid-air, so as to abruptly shut down the media coverage of the protest,” said Sarah Ahn, who was also arrested. “Cops went after the elderly Asian women home attendants and the young people who were using their phones to document the arrests!” 

Photos show CPC Chief of Staff Alice Wong sent a thug to violently snatch a journalist’s phone and walk into the gala with it so the brutal arrests could not be recorded. The perpetrator was Ken Paskar, friend of the corrupt former Assembly Member Sheldon Silver and CPC’s lawyer Alan Gerson. Under people’s continuous outcry over police’s protection of CPC, the police were eventually pressured to arrest Ken Paskar. High-level elected officials crossing the picket line included Chuck Schumer and Grace Meng.  
(Ken Paskar, who was sent by CPC to snatch the reporter’s phone, was arrested)

“This is CPC’s true face, as they think they are above the law with Governor Hochul’s backing. They’re also run by a board that consists 90% of bank, real estate, and insurance company executives. Instead of paying back wage theft, they are raising more money with their allies of casinos, DoorDash, and lobbyists to oppress immigrant communities,” said Kathy Lu, a working mother who was also arrested.

CPC’s violent repression did the opposite of stopping the protest, as home attendants and supporters became more determined and continued to protest for more than an hour, and their furious chants were heard all over Wall Street. The protesters ended by strongly condemning the unlawful crackdown. They also called on everyone to join the protest on March 12 at 11am in front of Governor Hochul’s office (919 3rd Ave) to demand she stop colluding with CPC, enforce the law to pay back stolen wages and end the 24-hour workdays.

 [:zh]星期四2月27日晚上，血汗老板华策会在华尔街的高级场所Cipriani大搞豪华晚会。在场外，它却利用纽约市警察局，残暴地镇压100多名示威的老年妇女家庭护理员，并抓了7人，包括一名孕妇和一位60岁老人。

“今晚，我们有超过100位家庭护理员示威，”一名被抓的护理员曾蔼瑜说。“我们仅仅是在揭穿华策会的谎言！我们在谴责他们维持24小时工作日，虐待我们移民妇女。现在，华策会不仅拒绝赔偿偷了我们九千万美元的工资，还叫警察来逮捕我！当年轻人看到并谴责警察这样暴力对待我们的时候，他们也被抓了。这太可恶了！”

虽然许多家庭护理机构已经实施了24小时两班制，但华策会仍然安排 24 小时一班制，只给13小时工资，并刚刚从胡楚州长手中获得了每年价值 70 亿美元的合同，以垄断纽约市、长岛、威斯特彻斯特的亲人家庭护理计划的市场。当晚，示威者在晚会场外的人行道上和平示威，但华策会却派警察来暴力镇压示威者并逮捕老年家庭护理员。

“警察逮捕前不久，华策会派人来把一位正在直播的记者的手机抢走，试图阻止媒体报道示威，”另一位被捕者Sarah Ahn说。“警察的首要目标是那些上了年纪的亚裔妇女家庭护理员和用手机记录逮捕经过的年轻人！”

有照片显示，华策会幕僚长 Alice Wong 派出一个流氓，暴力抢走了一名记者的手机，并带着它走进晚会，以便无法记录逮捕过程。肇事者叫Ken Paskar，是腐败的前州众议员肖华和华策会律师 Alan Gerson 的朋友。民众持续抗议警察保护华策会，最终警方被迫逮捕了抢劫犯Ken Paskar。与此同时，包括孟昭文和舒默等知名官员却越过示威线，为华策会捧场。
（华策会派来抢手机的流氓 Ken Paskar最后被捕归案）

“这就是华策会的真面目。他们以为在胡楚州长的支持下，可以凌驾于法律之上。华策会的董事会90%的人都是银行、房地产和保险公司的执行官。他们不仅不偿还盗窃工人的工资，还向他们开赌场的盟友、DoorDash和说客等筹更多的钱来压迫移民社区，”一名被抓的职场妈妈陆凯茜说。

华策会的暴力镇压起到相反的效果。家庭护理员和支持者变得更加坚定，并继续抗议一个多小时。他们愤怒的呼喊声响彻华尔街。抗议最后，示威者强烈谴责这次非法的镇压。他们还呼吁所有人于 3 月 12 日上午 11 点在胡楚州长办公室（三大道 919 号）前参加抗议活动，要求她停止与华策会勾结，执行法律，偿还被盗工资并结束 24 小时工作日。

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亲爱的会员和朋友，

蛇年新年快乐！蛇象征着新的开始，在冬眠之后破土而出，展现出新的智慧、保护和变革的能量。就像蛇蜕皮生长一样，我们邀请您回顾我们过去一年面临的一些斗争，为我们工人接下来争取公平带来新的发展和能量。

为妇女工人赢得更好的健康状况

2024 年春天，家庭护理员在市府门前发起了为期一周的绝食抗议，得到了数千名工人、医务人员、病人权利倡导者以及年轻人的支持。我们的行动震撼了全社会。由于公众的压力，许多家庭护理公司现已停止了 24 小时一班制，改成12 小时两班制，并赔偿工人欠薪。我们继续要求结束 24 小时工作日这种针对妇女的制度性暴力。

8月，家庭护理员和支持者前往纽约州府奥本尼，在法院外举行集会，要求劳工局重启数千起有工会的家庭护理员因 24 小时工作日只得13小时工资的欠薪案件。我们的努力取得了成功，推动了法院下令劳工局重启家庭护理员欠薪案件。这一成就证明，尽管政府、保险公司、工会和家庭护理公司千方百计剥削和压迫妇女，但他们无法战胜妇女工人领导的力量。

反对逼迁，保护我们的社区

我们保护唐人街和下东区社区的努力仍在继续。我们挫败了地产商在车厘街265-275号的可负担住房旁边建造豪华高楼的计划。我们和小商户及市议员马泰合作，推动在东百老汇的怡东商场开一家大型餐馆，以振兴受疫情和逼迁影响的社区。我们三年多以来抗议美国华人博物馆 (MOCA)及其前董事长诸宝承逼迁大金丰酒楼和接受市府3500万美元来支持新监狱，得到全国甚至国际的支持。更多的人参与到我们的示威线之中，也令到几位名人拒绝出席博物馆的年度晚会，以表示支持社区。我们还发起了对《星岛日报》的抗议，抗议他们的种族歧视报道及误导布鲁克林反收容所的抗议变成反黑人。我们要求政府建造低收入住房、停止逼迁和保护环境——因为人是环境的一部分——而不是帮助开发商建豪华高楼和收拥堵费来摧毁我们的社区。我们呼吁所有华人团结起来，与其他移民社区和黑人社区一起，共同反抗州和市政府的亲地产商的政策。

展望新年

过去一年最值得我们骄傲的是：数千名护理员站起来抗拒强权和恶势力，不但改变了成千上万的护理员自身，也改变了社区对我们妇女和护理员的看法，更改变了外人对我们华人、有色族裔妇女的看法，赢得了尊重。

加入我们的行动！迈入新的一年，要大家积极贡献时间精力、发出您的声音和捐款支持。我们邀请您、您的家人和朋友参加我们 2 月 23 日星期日举行的农历新年庆祝会，11点半在职工会对面的学校（68 Ludlow St），一起迎接令人兴奋的新年！请诸位尽快报名并购买奖券——先到先得！

诚挚地，

杨人权，理事会主席
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[:en]David once again defeats Goliath! Community members of Chinatown, Lower East Side, SoHo and other downtown areas gathered last Tuesday 9/24 with Council Member Christopher Marte to celebrate our victory against a developer’s latest attempt to build luxury high rises on the Two Bridges waterfront. 

A month ago, Chetrit, the developer and owner of 265-275 Cherry Street, announced that they were in the final stages of bringing on a development partner to help finance their megatowers project, and planned to break ground within a few weeks. Our community, with Council Member Marte’s leadership, swiftly condemned Chetrit’s greed in pushing this project and their disregard for people’s lives. Three weeks later, the tide has quickly turned in the community’s favor: Chetrit, abandoned by their development partner, is backing out of the project and has defaulted on their loan. The lot now heads to the auction block.

Chetrit’s surrender is the latest victory in our community’s years-long fight against the megatowers. By organizing with Two Bridges residents, neighbors from the Lower East Side and Chinatown, as well as workers, students and small businesses who are a part of these communities, we have proven that a unified community can triumph over the greed of billionaire developers.

These two towers, each 60- to 80-story tall, were planned to be built right next to two existing buildings that provide affordable housing. If built, they would damage the structure of the buildings, threaten the health and safety of their residents and drive up real estate taxes and rents in the surrounding area. In 2017, with the support of former Council Member Margaret Chin, developers proposed to build these luxury megatowers. Chin sent a letter to residents saying they “could not stop the towers from going up” and at best they could ask for some crumbs from the developers. Since then, multiple developers have taken over the project only to abandon it, due to consistent community organizing against displacement. 

Mr. Chen, a longtime Two Bridges resident, said: “These developers don’t care about the people, they only care about money. But because our community is very united, and because we have a very good City Council Member, Chris Marte, who stands with the tenants and stands with the community, we are able to fight back!”

Council Member Chris Marte said: “Today is a testament to the will of the people. It’s a major win for our neighborhood, for our city. When people on the street say this is just the way it is, there’s nothing we can do, you’re going to say: however, in Two Bridges, we took on developers & won!”

In celebrating this victory, community members call on the City to pass the Chinatown Working Group Rezoning Plan, which would stop luxury high-rises and limit real estate speculation in Chinatown and the Lower East Side by capping the height of new developments and mandating truly affordable housing. 

Our community sends a clear message to any big developers threatening to take over our neighborhoods: do not build luxury towers that destroy people’s lives, or else you will encounter our united opposition and lose.

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纽约社区团结起来，战胜了为富不仁的大地产商！唐人街、下东城、苏豪区等曼哈顿下城的社区成员上周二9月24日与市议员马泰齐聚一堂，庆祝我们阻止了地产商在下东城两桥河边建造豪华高楼。

一个月前，车厘街265-275号（265-275 Cherry Street）的地产商和所有者 Chetrit 宣布，他们已找到合作伙伴，以资助他们的摩天大楼项目，并计划在几周内破土动工。市议员马泰迅速召开记者会，与唐人街和下东城民众一起迅速谴责了 Chetrit的贪婪和对民众生命的漠视。三周后，形势迅速转向对社区有利的方向：合作伙伴抛弃了Chetrit ，Chetrit也退出了该项目并拖欠了贷款。这块地现在要被拿去拍卖了。

Chetrit 的投降是我们社区多年来反对豪华高楼的最新胜利。通过与两桥居民、下东城和唐人街的住客以及这些社区的工人、学生和小商户组织起来，我们已经证明，一个团结的社区是可以战胜亿万富翁地产商的。

这些豪华高楼计划贴着两幢已有的可负担住宅楼来建，高度在60-80层之间。如建成，它们将破坏住宅楼的建筑结构，威胁居民的健康和安全，并推高周边地区的房地产税和租金。2017 年，在前任市议员陈倩雯支持下，大地产商提出在此建造大型豪华高楼。陈倩雯当时已发信给当地住客，称他们是无法阻止这些高楼的，最好就是向地产商拿一些好处。自此之后，多家地产商接手了该项目，但由于大家持续组织起来反对豪华高楼逼迁社区和破坏环境，迫使他们放弃了该项目。

在庆祝胜利的记者会上，住在两桥社区二十多年的陈先生说：“地产商不关心民众，只关心自己的利益。但是因为我们的社区非常团结，而且我们有一位非常优秀的市议员马泰，他与住客站在一起，与社区站在一起，所以我们能够反击并取得胜利！”

市议员马泰说：“今天是民众力量的见证。这是我们社区、我们纽约市的重大胜利。当街上有人叫你认命，说你永远不可能打败有钱的大地产商时，你可以自豪地说：‘但是在两桥社区，我们与开发商较量并取得了胜利！’”

参加记者会的还有保护华埠和下东城联盟的众多成员团体、前市议员傅利达、下城独立民主党俱乐部、格兰街民主党俱乐部等。在庆祝这一胜利的同时，我们社区呼吁市政府通过【华埠工作组土改方案】，该计划将通过限制新楼宇的高度和要求建造真正的可负担住房来阻止唐人街和下东城的豪华高楼，限制房地产投机行为。

我们向任何买下该地并威胁逼迁社区的大地产商发出了明确的信息：不要建造破坏民众生活的豪华高楼，否则我们会团结起来将你打败！

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[:en]It is wrong for the City or State government to turn hotels into shelters or build shelters to solve the problem of homelessness. Not only is it unfair to low-income communities of color, but it is also not good for homeless people and families, and does not solve their housing and livelihood issues at all. We want the government to stop wasting taxpayers’ money fattening up the rich and real estate developers who run hotels and shelters. We demand the State and City governments use public funds to build low-income housing for working people, who are increasingly unable to afford rising rents, instead of paying big developers to build only luxury high-rises and hotels on one hand, and homeless shelters on the other.

For example, the vacant land next to Confucius Plaza and NYCHA can be used to build low-income housing. Yet after the 1960s, the Federal government has hardly built any public housing. Doesn’t the government know that the population is growing and the gap between the rich and the poor is widening? Or does it only know to let real estate developers build high-rises to make more money?

We have reservations about the anti-shelter movement on 86th Street in Brooklyn, which criminalizes homeless people. Opposing homeless shelters but only caring about themselves and not homeless people, they are pitted against other communities by the City government and big developers. This only benefits big developers. Their criminalization of homeless people is similar to Trump’s criminalization of immigrants. It makes sense that the Democratic Party tends to support homeless shelters and the Republican Party tends to oppose shelters! Support or opposition falls into the trap of the ruling class (in New York City, this is basically the real estate and financial capital class). Trump and the Republican Party claim to only target undocumented immigrants, but in fact, they are criminalizing all immigrants! The Democratic Party claims to care about undocumented immigrants, but in fact it is doing everything possible to keep immigrants as an underclass of labor. Immigrants  are pitted against the so-called native workers. Whether it is the Republican or Democratic Party, the main line of their policies is to divide the working class, deepen racial tension and deepen exploitation.

The current anti-shelter movement on 86th St is not  really against shelters, but only against shelters near their homes. This movement can easily be used by those with ulterior motives or misunderstood as anti-Black or anti-homeless people and families. We shouldn’t let the Chinese  community be isolated, which will bring only harm to us Chinese. In case you have doubts about this, Mayor Adams has already said that the anti-shelter movement on 86th St is against single Black men. And the Sing Tao Daily, which has always encouraged big developers and home care agencies to abuse our community , has promoted the 86th Street movement every day. This makes even more clear that this movement does not help our community

We must break the isolation of the Chinese community, care about the conditions of the residents in the shelter, and unite across race to demand the government build low-income housing and stop helping big developers from displacing our communities.

Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association
212-334-2333[:zh]市府或州府将酒店变为收容所或起收容所来解决游民和无家可归的问题是不对的。不但对低收入有色族裔社区不公，加深种族之间的矛盾，而且对无家可归的人或家庭都不好，根本没解决他们的住房和生活问题。我们要政府不要浪费纳税人的钱，养肥开酒店和开收容所的富翁和地产商。我们要求州、市政府正视游民和无家可归的需要，用给酒店和收容所的经费和给地产商起豪华高楼的钱来起低收入可负担房屋。

比如将孔子大厦和政府楼旁边的空地起低收入房屋。不是很好吗？上世纪60年代后，联邦政府几乎没起政府楼了。人口增长和贫富差距加剧，政府难道不知道吗？还是只知让地产商盖高楼，赚更多的钱？

我们对86街反游民的运动有保留，他们将游民罪犯化。反对游民所而只关心自己而𣎴关心无家可归的需要，被市府和地产商搞对立，让地产商从中得利。他们将无家可归和游民罪犯化和川普将移民罪犯化类同。民主党倾向支持游民收容所，和共和党倾向反对收容所，不无道理！支持或反对都落在统治阶级（在纽约，基本是地产和金融资本阶级）的圈套里。共和党的川普美其名只是针对没有身份移民，其实是将移民罪犯化！而民主党美其名是关心非法移民，其实千方百计将移民奴役化。将他们和所谓本土工人对立起来。不论共和党或民主党，其政策的主线，都是分化工人阶级，加深种族歧视、矛盾和加深剥削。

现时86街这个运动已经不是真的反对收容所，只是反对收容所在他们家门前，这样很容易被有心人用来或被人误会是反黑人或反无家可归的人和家庭。将我们华人社区孤立起来，对我们华人有害，根本没有好处。如果你们有所怀疑的话，市长亚当斯已经说86街这个运动是反黑男。而一向鼓励地产商和护理公司虐侍我们华人护理的《星岛日报》，日日大篇幅报导86街这个运动，不言而喻了。

我们要打破华人社区的孤立，关心收容所居民的状况，团结各族裔要求政府：起低收入住房，停止帮大地产商逼迁我们的社区。

华人职工会
212-334-2333[:]