Flushing Workers Center, Inc.

The work we are currently doing and fundraising for is:

- Procuring protective gear for workers on the frontline, in particular, home care health workers.

- Helping workers who have lost their job (restaurant workers, delivery workers, nail salon workers, construction workers) with emergency funds for food and supplies.

Please donate any amount meaningful to you.  Every amount counts.


Once you've donated, please sign this petition  to demand the government provide disaster relief for working people, regardless of immigration status. 

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Procuring protective gear for workers deemed essential, in particular home care workers who are frontline healthcare workers, is vital. Their work is critical. Agencies are telling them to take protective measures but the lack of protective gear is leaving workers to fend for themselves. Ultimately, workers are being forced to put themselves at risk. Price gouging is also leaving workers behind.

We are purchasing and distributing masks, gloves, and hand sanitizer to workers who need it. We are also supporting workers who have lost their job due to coronavirus - restaurant workers, delivery workers, nail salon workers, construction workers, car service workers - with emergency funds for food and supplies. 

Flushing Workers Center engages in multi-racial, multi-trade organizing to tackle the root causes of exploitation.  Our organizing model emphasizes the leadership of those hardest hit by sweatshop conditions and regressive immigration policies.  We aim to forge common ground among groups historically pitted against one another and establish an inclusive agenda for all working people.

Please donate and support frontline workers now.

Wage theft—bosses in violation of law to underpay workers--constitutes the biggest theft in the US. Each year, workers see tens of billions of dollars stolen from them, a few times larger than all other types of thefts combined.

In New York State where wage theft amounts to $1 billion each year, working people have a chance to turn the table. For years, workers across trades come together to fight for the SWEAT Bill, which would give workers the power to prevent the unscrupulous bosses from escaping justice. However, Governor Andrew Cuomo vetoed the SWEAT Bill, essentially encouraging law-breaking bosses to continue looting!

Now, as we continue with our effort to hold Governor Cuomo accountable, we are partnering with Houzhi Huang, a talented animator based in Paris, France, to produce a video on wage theft. This video will help raise public awareness of wage theft and mobilize support for the SWEAT bill.

(Clip from the video)

But we need your support to produce the video! Funds will go to the artist, for his time and to cover expenses.

In this difficult time of COVID-19 when workers are facing severe economic difficulties, it’s more important than ever for them to have the tool to secure their hard-earned money against theft. Already a rampant problem, wage theft is on the rise. The SWEAT bill has been passed in the State Senate again this year and is hopefully to go through the State Assembly soon. Working people across the state are pushing to send it to Governor Cuomo’s desk. We need to come together to make sure he can no longer let unscrupulous bosses off the hook. Let’s help finish the animation project and be part of the fight to stop wage theft!

For more information on the SWEAT Bill, visit the bill's website .

About the artist
An animator born and raised in China and currently living in France, Houzhi Huang is a graduate of Gobelins, l'école de l'image, Paris. He's invested in becoming a visual developer, layout and Background artist in the industry. He's also a fox and plants lover.

About Workers Against Wage Theft
Workers Against Wage Theft (WAWT) is a growing alliance of worker organizations that fight wage theft in NYS. WAWT demands Governor Cuomo stop protecting criminal bosses that steal hard earned wages from workers and sign the SWEAT bill, which will give workers the tools they need to stop wage theft.

Workers Against Wage Theft (list in formation):
Brothers Doing Better; Chinese Staff & Workers Association; Democratic Socialists of America - NYC; El Centro de Imigrante; Flushing Workers Center; International Workers Solidarity Network - Buffalo; Jornaleros Unidos; Laundry Workers Center; National Day Laborers Organizing Network; National Mobilization Against SweatShops; Queen City Workers Center; Sisa Pakari Cultural and Labor Center; Students Organizing Against Reynolds; Workers Justice Project; Youth Against Sweatshops

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