More than 100 garment workers, formerly employed by Wins, protested September 17 outside the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco where U.S. secretary of labor Elaine Chao was scheduled to speak. The workers have been waiting more than a year to receive months of unpaid wages amounting to more than $1 million. The government closed three Wins factories in August 2001 after owner Anna Wong didn’t pay the workers for more than four months. Since then federal officials have collected but not distributed $420,000 of the workers’ wages. "Asian immigrants come to work here and want to be treated fairly," read one of the many signs.
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