Campaign for Laid-off Monster Cable Workers
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| Location | San Francisco, CA |
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| Introduction | Background On Oct. 20, 2006, Monster Cable Products, Inc. laid off over 120 production workers from their Brisbane facility, outsourcing their jobs to low-wage labor overseas to increase profits. The company is a highly profitable company which sells high end audiovisual cables, home theater equipment, etc. The laid-off workers are mostly monolingual middle-aged Chinese, Vietnamese, Latino, and Eastern European immigrants who worked an average of over 8 years and as many as 20 years for the company. Laid off workers want a just severance as with previous laid off workers and want the company to address their long term unemployment issues by contributing to a Community-Worker Transition Fund. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has introduced a resolution supporting the workers and urging Monster Cable to comply with the workers demands. The Campaign is being coordinated with support from the Chinese Progressive Association in San Francisco, www.cpasf.org, tel (415) 391-6986, fax (415) 391-6987. |
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