To: Ms. Victoria Claire Chen (wife); Mr. Winston Shay (husband); and associated companies (Hudson Legal Group, Chen Immigration Associates, North America Immigration Law Group, HIPR Pacsoft, Talentopia, Pacston, Visa2US, mStarLex, Hudson Business Immigration, North America United Law Group, Impactio, Impactian, HIPR, et al.)

WHEREAS workers have an inalienable right to organize under federal and international law;

WHEREAS 70% of employees at your company’s joined Hudson Workers United (HWU), a branch of the United Electrical Workers and, as of July 2021, have petitioned for an election under the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB);

WHEREAS Ms. Chen and Mr. Shay have intentionally obfuscated the employer-employee relationships between their companies and their employees, apparently to prevent their employees from exercising their inalienable right to organize;

WHEREAS Ms. Chen and Mr. Shay have apparently stolen from their employees for years by improperly calculating employees’ wages and working hours;

WHEREAS since the employees began organizing the union, these companies and their executives, Ms. Chen and Mr. Shay, either have or appear to have:

-Drastically altered working conditions;

-Attempted to replace members of the bargaining unit with untrained, precarious, and misclassified workers;

-Lied to clients about management-induced conditions that have led to delays in case preparation and filing;

-Promoted incompetent, untrained, and anti-union employees to manage clients’ cases over trained, professional, and pro-union employees, potentially causing irreparable harm to the company’s clients;

-Spread false information across the internet about working conditions and practices at the firm in an effort to deceive clients and potential employees;

-Threatened to withhold compensation from employees for engaging in protected union activities;

-Discriminated against legally-protected, disabled employees in retaliation for these employees’ support for and involvement with the union;;

-Terminated or placed on unpaid leave Sarah Bell, Joshua Sturman, Abigail Schultz, Spenser Santos, and Kaleigh Mauroni in retaliation for their support for and involvement with the union;

-Retaliated against employees for testifying at the NLRB in response to subpoenas;

-Unilaterally changed working conditions without notice and then disciplined workers based on these changed conditions for activities that occurred prior to the changes;

-Improperly restricted employees’ communications and interfered with their free speech rights;

-Interfered with employees’ ability to gather evidence related to ongoing legal investigations;

-Intimidated, harassed, slandered, and otherwise adversely and illegally acted against workers in an attempt to dissuade union activity;

AND WHEREAS an attack on one worker is an attack on the entire body of laborers,

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that we, the undersigned, strongly urge Ms. Chen, Mr. Shay, and their associated corporate entities to recognize and bargain with HWU in good faith and for the purpose of reaching a fair, equitable agreement regarding the workers’ compensation and conditions of employment;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we, the undersigned, will commit to informing our academic colleagues and communities about Ms. Chen, Mr. Shay, and their corporate entities behaviors to the fullest extent;

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that we, the undersigned, will ask our colleagues to bear in mind the Ms. Chen, Mr. Shay, and their corporate entities behaviors in any and all present or future dealings they have with Ms. Chen, Mr. Shay, and their corporate entities (Hudson Legal Group, Chen Immigration Associates, North America Immigration Law Group, HIPR Pacsoft, Talentopia, Pacston, Visa2US, mStarLex, Hudson Business Immigration, North America United Law Group, Impactio, Impactian, HIPR, et al.)