Lisa chan is live at theiconnic restaurant in richmond. Reporter about 100 people came here for a News Conference to show their support for the owner of this richmond restaurant including the mayor. On saturday, the owner of the restaurant received a 30day eviction notice. She says she has no idea why. She is well known in the community for giving back and her story has inspired many. Her mom was killed when she was 11. She was raised by her brother, was holds for a while and gave homeless for a while and gave birth in a shelter. Then she came to richmond in 1995. I love richmond. This is my first job in america. Um, since 1995. I never work other place. I dont have a resume. [ laughter ] i got the job 7 an hour as a hostess and working hard as an immigrant and single mother way up and [ indiscernible ] owner now for 14 years i own the restaurant. Reporter she hosts an annual thanksgiving dinner for the homeless and donates money and time to many bay area schools and nonprofits. The po
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So, a point that i want to make here is that a lot of our time is not valued if we are not respected as workers. And a lot of the cases we show up to work, and then the employer decides that maybe they dont need us any more and so we lose that time that day that could be invested somewhere else. So my question is given if that we wash dishes and we clean the floors and the stores and does that mean that our time is less valuable . So whether, full time or part time workers we deserve equal treatment. And even if we are a part time workers and you know that time for us is valuable to know if we are going to work are be able to invest in the Health Services for ourself and our families because we are here and we are hard workers and just trying to get and, move forward. This is why we are supporting the retail workers bill of rights. Thank you. Thank you for your time and listening. Thank you. Next speaker . Good afternoon, supervisor and good morning, supervisors tim lazarez, San Franci
Working class, families and poor family to stay in their homes, but also, be able to have a work for their family, thank you. Thank you. Miss cabani. Miss martin . Good morning. And really excited that sisww, have been able to work on these pieces of legislation, and usww represents hundreds of security officers, that work in formula Retail Establishment and banks as well as janitors at safeway and when we were organizing safeway we found out what the working conditions are for the contractor positions for workers and retail and there were folks that were getting the personal checks written in crayon that bounce and people did not know if they are working there and organizing in the safeway we were able to eliminate those working conditions in one grocery chain. But, just think about what is still happening in the rest of the Grocery Stores for the contracted Property Service workers in San Francisco, who dont have a union. And we are included in the more legislation and we are really
Part time workers we deserve equal treatment. And even if we are a part time workers and you know that time for us is valuable to know if we are going to work are be able to invest in the Health Services for ourself and our families because we are here and we are hard workers and just trying to get and, move forward. This is why we are supporting the retail workers bill of rights. Thank you. Thank you for your time and listening. Thank you. Next speaker . Good afternoon, supervisor and good morning, supervisors tim lazarez, San Francisco chamber of commerce and we had Great Success of working with supervisors and advocates on a number of pieces of legislation in the last year and a half. And the Family Friendly flexion time legislation, and the fair higher and the ban the box legislation and the minimum wage that was just on the ballot and because we had an opportunity to sit down with the employers, and with the labor and with the civil rights advocates and the supervisor and their ai