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Lora Jo Foo (born 1951) is a labor organizer and attorney specializing in employment and labor law.

Early life and education
Foo was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1951, the fourth of six daughters. Her father, Math Chow (1911-1991), fought for the US in World War II. Her mother, Della Ng (1918-2007), immigrated to the US from Zhongsan, China, and worked in a sewing factory. Foo began working as a garment worker in a sweatshop at the age of 11. Foo studied Asian American Studies at the San Francisco State University from 1972 until 1976, when she dropped out in her last semester to work as a garment factory union organizer. [cite oral history]. She then became a hotel maid at the Hilton Hotel and later the St. Francis Hotel. [cite oral history] Foo and her fellow workers experienced oppressive working conditions, racism, and humiliation at the hands of their managers. [coh] In 1980, Foo was a leader in the 1980 citywide strike of 6000 San Francisco hotel workers. After the arbitration, Foo began law school at the Golden Gate University School of Law. After graduating with her J.D. in 1985, she worked for private labor law firm representing unions.

Career
From 1992 to 2000, Foo was the employment/labor attorney for the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco, California where she represented Asian American immigrant workers in sweatshop industries - garment, restaurant, construction, domestic and other low-wage industries, in their struggles for decent wages and working conditions. Foo's numerous litigation successes as an attorney for the Caucus include the 1993 case of Anna Chan et al v. Moviestar, in which she obtained the first judgment from a California court holding a garment manufacturer responsible for the wages of its subcontractor's employees. In 1998 she won the Cuadra et al v. Labor Commissioner case before the California Supreme Court, a case which ensured that workers throughout California who utilize the administrative process to recover unpaid wages would recover 100% instead of a diminished portion due to an arbitrary method of calculations by the agency. In 1999 she led a statewide coalition of garment worker advocates in passing the California Garment Accountability Bill, which holds retailers and apparel firms strictly liable for the minimum wage and overtime violations of their contractors.

Foo left the Asian Law Caucus in 2000. In the same year, the Ford Foundation hired her to write Asian American Women: Issues, Concerns and Responsive Human and Civil Rights Advocacy, which was published by the Ford Foundation in September 2002. In 2002 she received a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 2004, she became the National Coordinator of the AFL-CIO's Voting Rights Protection Program, where she launched programs to protect the vote in 11 battleground states. In 2006 she joined the California Faculty Association as its Northern California Organizing Director. Foo co-founded the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum and was its National Chair from 1996 to 1998. She is also a co-founder of the California-based Sweatshop Watch and served as its Board President from 1995 to 2004. In 1995 she attended the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. She is the author of