Comments on: Workers Stage Protest Against Chinese Govt. Owned Wu Liang Ye

By: massconn72

massconn72 — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 11:34:30 +0000

How can this truly be happing in this country? Somebody has got to do something about this. Please stop buying their food. CAN YOU SAY BOYCOTT?????

By: Law

Law — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:03:33 +0000

What’s even more odd, I walked by the Wu Liang Ye on 48th around 12:30PM and saw the closed DOH yellow sign. Didn’t take a picture though.

By: Makanmata

Makanmata — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:51:08 +0000

Neither Wu Liang Ye the restaurants or WuLiangYe the Chinese distillery, are owned by the Chinese government. WuLiangYe is a publically held company with shares trading in Shenzen.

I’ll reserve judgment myself, unlike some others on here, as this is only one side of the story.

By: sandra

sandra — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:31:45 +0000

MikeNYC – Tang Pavilion beats Wu Liang Ye any day (even the 48th st one). My favorite Chinese place in midtown hands-down.

By: ARP

ARP — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:20:30 +0000

It seems people have skipped over the last paragraph:

The City Room Blog confirmed that the workers filed their complaint this week with the National Labor Relations Board, and that it doesn’t effect the famous branch of Wu Liang Ye on 48th btw. 5+6th. That particular location of Wu Liang Ye proved in court last year that they had a different owner than the location on 3rd Avenue.

By: MikeNYC

MikeNYC — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:44:28 +0000

Oh, Rats! I just RTFA more closely and we order from the famous Wu Liang Yee on 48th.

Sad trombones for me. I’m stuck with them for the office Chinese lunches.

By: MikeNYC

MikeNYC — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:42:17 +0000

This makes me so happy.

Not for the plight of the workers; that’s a pretty bad.

But for me. Somehow this place replaced Tang Pavilion as my office’s go to Chinese and I’m sick of it!

Now maybe I can get some of those awesome Tang Pavilion Chicken Dumplings in Spicy Oil the next time we do a group order of Chinese. And the Black Bean Chicken.

Mmmmee….. Maybe I just figured out what’s for lunch.

By: AL@1PP

AL@1PP — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:57:20 +0000

disgusting. I would not eat at any place that stiffs their workers.

By: steveroller

steveroller — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:48:41 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised. The cleanliness of the kitchen is not the only thing you don’t want to know about the Chinese restuarant industry. Cheating waiters out of tips is common and has given rise to numerous lawsuits, but such assertions of rights are rare. Sadly, much of the industry is built around exploiting immigrant labor. You had Jennifer 8 Lee as a profiled luncher, and her book Fortune Cookie Chronicles has some interesting chapters on this problem.

By: mkim1206

mkim1206 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:33:34 +0000

I am not going there anymore. My blood boils every time when I read something like this.