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08-13-2019, 06:16 PM
The ICE Raids In Mississippi Were About S (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/9/1877858/-The-ICE-Raids-In-Mississippi-Were-About-Suppressing-Worker-Rights)uppressing Worker Rights (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/9/1877858/-The-ICE-Raids-In-Mississippi-Were-About-Suppressing-Worker-Rights)
it appears that ICE decided to raid companies based on successful unionization efforts and EEOC complaints: (http://paydayreport.com/ice-raids-miss-plant-after-3-5-million-sexual-harassment-settlement/)
The workers, many of them members of the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), were employed by a company called Koch Foods Inc, which employs 13,000 workers throughout the US.
In 2018, following a nearly eight-year-long legal battle (https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2018/08/01/koch-foods-mississippi-pay-3-75-m-settle-discrimination-lawsuits/875688002/), Koch Foods Inc. settled a $3.75 million brought by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Koch Food Inc at the plant. The lawsuit alleged that Koch Foods Inc supervisors engaged in both racial and sexual harassment of Latina workers at its Morton, Mississippi plant.
The lawsuit brought by the EEOC against Koch Food Inc’s alleged (https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/8-1-18b.cfm) “that supervisors touched and/or made sexually suggestive comments to female Hispanic employees, hit Hispanic employees and charged many of them money for normal everyday work activities.”
In June of 2018, ICE raided a unionized Fresh Mark meatpacking plant in Salem, Ohio (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/29/ohio-ice-meatpacking-industry-deportations); arresting 140 workers.
A week before the raid on a Fresh Mark’s Salem facility, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined Fresh Mark $211,194 (https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OPA/newsreleases/OSHA20180939.pdf) for three separate incidents in which proper guards for dangerous machinery were not in place.
OSHA found that the lack of safety guards resulted in the death of an undocumented worker.
Suspicion was also raised that workers complaining about working conditions in plants lead to a raid at the Southeastern Provision in Morristown, Tennesse.
The raid came after federal authorities were tipped off by a local bank that the owner of the plant may have been paying undocumented workers under the table.
“These raids send a real signal to immigrant workers not to speak up, and we feel like these raids enable employers in the most dangerous industry to cut corners and violate labor standards,”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/9/1877858/-The-ICE-Raids-In-Mississippi-Were-About-Suppressing-Worker-Rights?detail=emailLL (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/9/1877858/-The-ICE-Raids-In-Mississippi-Were-About-Suppressing-Worker-Rights?detail=emailLL)
The illegal employers always skate free, while illegal employees get screwed.
it appears that ICE decided to raid companies based on successful unionization efforts and EEOC complaints: (http://paydayreport.com/ice-raids-miss-plant-after-3-5-million-sexual-harassment-settlement/)
The workers, many of them members of the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), were employed by a company called Koch Foods Inc, which employs 13,000 workers throughout the US.
In 2018, following a nearly eight-year-long legal battle (https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2018/08/01/koch-foods-mississippi-pay-3-75-m-settle-discrimination-lawsuits/875688002/), Koch Foods Inc. settled a $3.75 million brought by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Koch Food Inc at the plant. The lawsuit alleged that Koch Foods Inc supervisors engaged in both racial and sexual harassment of Latina workers at its Morton, Mississippi plant.
The lawsuit brought by the EEOC against Koch Food Inc’s alleged (https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/8-1-18b.cfm) “that supervisors touched and/or made sexually suggestive comments to female Hispanic employees, hit Hispanic employees and charged many of them money for normal everyday work activities.”
In June of 2018, ICE raided a unionized Fresh Mark meatpacking plant in Salem, Ohio (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/29/ohio-ice-meatpacking-industry-deportations); arresting 140 workers.
A week before the raid on a Fresh Mark’s Salem facility, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined Fresh Mark $211,194 (https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OPA/newsreleases/OSHA20180939.pdf) for three separate incidents in which proper guards for dangerous machinery were not in place.
OSHA found that the lack of safety guards resulted in the death of an undocumented worker.
Suspicion was also raised that workers complaining about working conditions in plants lead to a raid at the Southeastern Provision in Morristown, Tennesse.
The raid came after federal authorities were tipped off by a local bank that the owner of the plant may have been paying undocumented workers under the table.
“These raids send a real signal to immigrant workers not to speak up, and we feel like these raids enable employers in the most dangerous industry to cut corners and violate labor standards,”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/9/1877858/-The-ICE-Raids-In-Mississippi-Were-About-Suppressing-Worker-Rights?detail=emailLL (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/9/1877858/-The-ICE-Raids-In-Mississippi-Were-About-Suppressing-Worker-Rights?detail=emailLL)
The illegal employers always skate free, while illegal employees get screwed.