Undocumented immigrants are easy targets for employers who
want to rip their workers off. The situation seems to be getting worse under
Trump—which doesn’t mean it wasn’t bad before.—TPOI editor
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| Dairy workers protest. Photo: New York Upstate |
…[W]ith Donald Trump as president, more employers think
wage theft is even easier to get away with.
Eric Cortellessa, American Prospect
June 5, 2017
Enrique is a farmworker in California. He has a wife and two
sons living in Mexico who depend on the money he sends them. For parts of the
year—from May to November—he goes north to Washington to pick apples and
cherries. Sometimes, he says, he isn’t paid for all the work he does. On one
such occasion, he and his coworkers wanted to complain. Stiffing employees,
after all, is a federal crime.
But it’s not so simple. Enrique is worried that reporting
the crime could backfire against him by exposing his immigration status.
“When we get paid—sometimes we get paid and sometimes we
don’t—we notice that there are hours missing, and we just fear saying anything,
because we’ve been told repeatedly that if we say anything, they are going to
call immigration on us,” he says.[...]
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Upstate immigrant dairy farm workers report injuries and
intimidation
By Patrick Lohmann, New York Upstate
June 1, 2017
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Immigrant dairy farm workers who spoke to
researchers in Upstate New York reported hazardous working conditions, wage
theft and intimidation, according to findings published in a report by workers'
rights groups and Syracuse University professors.
Researchers interviewed 88 immigrant workers at 53 Upstate
dairy farms in 2014 and 2015. They did so without the farm owners' knowledge
and granted the workers, most of whom came to the country illegally, anonymity
for fear of being deported, the authors said.
Nearly half of the workers said they were bullied or
intimidated by their bosses, and two-thirds said they'd suffered at least one
injury. […]
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Download the report:
https://milkedny.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/milked_053017.pdf
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