by Jon Rodney
Protest and demand for back wages.(PHOTO COURTESY BY JON RODNEY, WITH EAST BAY ALLIANCE)
No sooner had the sun risen over the Oakland hills on Jan. 16 when protestors started gathering outside of Emeryville’s boycotted Woodfin Suites Hotel. And by about 8:00 a.m. the crowd had swelled to over 60 workers, residents, and community members.
A court ordered Woodfin to pay up some $200,000 in back wages, owed to dozens of working immigrant mothers since approximately three years ago, and still it hasn’t paid the workers.
