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Thursday, April 12, 2007
Labor Lawsuit Filed Against Labor Works, Schwan’s
Posted by Media Release
Attorneys from Manley Burke, LPA are filing a lawsuit in Federal court alleging various wage and hour violations against Labor Works, an employer of day labor workers, located at 2236 Gilbert Avenue, Walnut Hills and Schwan’s Global Supply Chain, aka Schwan’s that is located at 7605 Empire Drive, Florence, Kentucky. Schwan’s is a corporation that manufactures and distributes frozen foods.
The United Food and Commercial Workers, local 1099, and the Day Labor Organizing Project (DLOP) has been working to improve the wages and working conditions of the estimated three hundred (300) to five hundred (500) day labor workers in the Over the Rhine and Avondale areas of Cincinnati. These workers are employed by seven day labor halls in Cincinnati and are subject to abusive conditions at work and substandard and inadequate wages.
In the law suit that will be filed in federal court, we allege that Labor Works and Schwan’s are joint employers who routinely fail to pay their day labor workers for all the time that these workers are required to under the direction of either Labor Works or Schwan’s , up to fourteen (14) hours a day.
In addition, these workers are mandated to take transportation from Labor Works to the Schwan’s facility in Florence, Kentucky. They pay $7.00 for this transportation, even though public transportation or use of their vehicles would cost a fraction of that amount.
These day labor workers are trying to support themselves, and often their families as well. A take home pay of $35.00 for a fourteen hour day is not only unjust but we believe is also illegal.
DLOP and UFCW are joined by many Labor, Community and Religious organizations in calling for an end to these practices and for proper redress in federal court.
This press release was submitted by the Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center.
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