Liberato Restaurant Tries To Silence Workers; Remembering the Triangle Fire - 27:57
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Liberato
Restaurant Tries To Silence Workers
With Federal Racketeering, “RICO” Suit
with
. Omar Taveras, former Liberato worker
. Mahoma Lopez, Laundry
Workers Center representative
. Ria Julien, workers’ attorney
Liberato Restaurant workers joined by community supporters and
workers’ rights advocates, such as the grassroots workers’ rights
organization the Laundry Workers Center continue to exercise their
right
to protest against wage and hour theft, sexual harassment and
verbal abuses,
despite Liberato Restaurants’ attempts to silence them. Liberato, in an
unprecedented action has brought a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations (“RICO”) lawsuit accusing the workers of extortion. Liberato
server Maggy Andres, said “we are here today demanding what we are owed.
The RICO case is an attempt to silence us, and it will not work. Liberato
stole our money and we demand what we are owed by the law and better
conditions in our workplace. Until that happens, we will be out here
demanding justice for ourselves, our co-workers, and all exploited
workers
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Remembering the Triangle Fire
with
Sophia Henderson Holmes
Poet
Sophia Henderson Holmes reads from her epic poem
commemorating the lives of
those who died at the Triangle Fire.
The poem itself serves as well as a
tribute to Sophia herself, who
has since passed on but has left us her
stirring words and the
challenge to organize for workers' rights.
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