New York—Undocumented immigrant workers, especially in the construction business, take a gamble every time they agree to a job because they are not guaranteed what most take for granted: workplace safety, minimum wage, overtime, or even prompt payment. But Mr. Xu, a construction worker from Queens, ...
Community Groups Release Findings on Working Conditions for Korean Immigrants in the New York Metropolitan Area
New York—Approximately three out of four Korean immigrant workers do not receive legally-mandated overtime pay if they are entitled to it, according to survey results released today by th...
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a national civil rights organization founded in 1974, today joined other groups filing a friend of the court brief in support of the ACLUs legal challenge to the National Security Agency’s warrantless domestic surveillance program (Americ...
On Friday, April 7, one day after Senate Republicans toughened an already harsh immigration proposal, leaders from diverse immigrant groups, legal experts, and key anti-war organizers joined their efforts to oppose the wars at home and abroad. Throughout this month, immigrants are spearheading local...
New York—Nationally recognized voting rights experts released a new, sharply focused report on voting rights enforcement in New York this morning citing blatant voting rights violations such as an incident where a New York City polling site coordinator yelled, “You f—ing Chinese, theres too many of ...
As the full Senate considers immigration reform in the coming weeks, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 32-year-old national civil rights organization, calls upon Congress to uphold basic human rights principles in its legislative proposals and to reject any effort to cr...
On April 3, 2006, immigrants facing deportation under the current laws, legal experts, and community leaders will speak against radically expanded deportation and detention provisions buried in the Senate proposal that is being widely hailed as a pro-immigration “legalization” bill.
While there are...
Co-Counsel AALDEF, Weil Gotshal Successfully Reject Flawed “Fluency” Test
Lowell, MA—Three Lowell public school teachers are to be reinstated after the American Arbitration Association issued a decision Monday awarding them full back pay, seniority, pension, health benefits, and the right to return...
New York—As the push to renew the Voting Rights Act intensifies, hundreds of voters and activists from the Tri-State area gathered today at the SEIUs Local 32BJ to discuss the need to stop key provisions of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) from expiring, and underscore the critical role those protections...
Downtown Residents and Office Workers, 9/11 Environmental Action, WTC Residents Coalition, and Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Call on Newly Appointed Federal 9/11 Health Czar for Monitoring and Treatment of WTC-Related Illnesses
New York, NY—Today, New Yorkers sick from their 9/11-...
New York, NY—The civil rights group Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) joined residents, advocates, and workers today in testifying before the New York City Council regarding critical defects in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s proposed final Test and Clean Program f...
New York—More than 850 friends, both old and new, joined the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) on Thursday, Feb. 2nd to usher in the Year of the Dog 4704 at its annual Lunar New Year Gala at PIER SIXTY, Chelsea Piers. Table by table, guests leapt to their feet three times this...
Case of Waheed Saleh Asserts First Amendment “Right to Petition” in NYPD’s Enforcement of Immigration Laws
New York—The Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund (AALDEF) today filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York asserting that the First Amendment right ...
Cites Nearly a Decade of Violations of the Act’s Language Assistance Provisions
New York—In federal court today in Manhattan, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), along with pro bono co-counsel Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, filed a lawsuit against the New York City Board of E...
Boston, MA—The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 32-year-old civil rights organization, released detailed findings today from its multilingual exit poll of Asian American voters in the 2005 city council elections in Massachusetts.
Approximately 300 Asian American voters pa...
The Korean Workers Project, a collaboration between the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and YKASECEmpowering the Korean American Community, announced today a back-wage settlement of $17,500 on behalf of a former nail salon worker from Flushing, Queens.
AALDEF Attorney Steve...
New York—The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a 31-year-old civil rights organization that provides immigrant workers with legal advice and representation, reminds workers and business owners that the minimum wage in New York State has increased from $6.00 per hour to $6.75 ...
New York—The Korean Workers Project, a collaboration between the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) and YKASEC Empowering Korean Communities, today demanded payment on behalf of 13 cooks, waitresses, waiters, busboys, and other workers at the Queens restaurant Seoul Plaza and Y...
New York—On Tuesday, December 13, residents, workers, environmentalists and community advocates will head into the final panel meeting of the EPA’s WTC Expert Panel to denounce the EPA’s WTC test and clean program. The EPA will come under heavy criticism for the rigged program, which the WTC Communi...
Federal Judge Awards Full $71,000 in Back Wages and Damages
New York—In a precedent-setting decision released yesterday, federal court Judge Leonard B. Sand ruled in favor of immigrant worker Doo Nam Yang, and ordered Yang’s former employer—jewelry company ACBL Corp. of Manhattan—to pay the full cl...
