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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Signal International Lawsuits
SPLC complaint in David v. Signal International, LLC (Filed 03/10/2008) The SPLC filed suit on behalf of guest workers from India who were defrauded and exploited in a labor trafficking scheme engineered by a Gulf Coast marine services company, an immigration lawyer and an Indian labor recruiter who lured hundreds of workers to a Mississippi…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Rosalino Perez-Benites et al. v. Candy Brand LLC et al.
Candy Brand case A federal judge has held Candy Brand and its individual owners accountable for routinely cheating migrant farmworkers out of wages. The court also held that the company’s failure to pay overtime wages and reimburse workers’ expenses was a breach of Candy Brand’s contract with each worker it exploited. As a result, the…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Daniel Castellanos-Contreras, et al. v. Decatur Hotels, LLC et al.
Decatur Hotels case H-2B guest workers traveled to the United States from their home countries of Bolivia, Peru, and the Dominican Republic to perform guest services, housekeeping, maintenance, and other essential support functions in the hotel operations of the Defendants. Like thousands of other migrant laborers who have been lured to New Orleans in the…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Secretary of Labor v. Gold Kist
OSHA complaint against Gold Kist, Inc. An Alabama poultry processing plant faced up to $143,000 in fines as the result of a federal complaint filed by the SPLC alleging the company subjected workers to dangerous working conditions. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Gold Kist Inc.’s Russellville, Ala., plant for 21 hazardous conditions “likely…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Rodrigues et al. v. Belfor USA Group Inc.
Rodrigues v. Belfor USA Group Inc. Rodrigues v. Belfor USA Group Inc., was brought by representative plaintiffs on behalf of potentially thousands of workers employed by Belfor USA Group, Inc., a major natural disaster reconstruction firm, and its subcontractors. Restoring key public services to the city and the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, including Tulane…
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Navarrete-Cruz v. LVI Environmental Services of New Orleans, Inc., et al.
Navarrete-Cruz v. LVI Environmental Services of New Orleans, Inc., et al. Navarrete-Cruz v. LVI Environmental Services of New Orleans, Inc., et al. involves a large contractor, LVI Environmental Services of New Orleans, Inc. LVI also used a subcontractor system to avoid paying workers the wages owed to them. One of the large subcontractors used by…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Rosiles-Perez, et al. v. Superior Forestry Service Inc., et al.
Rosiles-Perez, et al. v. Superior Forestry Service Inc., et al. More than 2,200 guestworkers were recruited from Mexico and Central America, under the H-2B visa program, to plant pine seedlings for Superior Forestry Inc., an Arkansas-based corporation that describes itself as the largest forestry contractor in the eastern United States. The lawsuit alleges the workers…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Escolastico De Leon-Granados v. Eller and Sons, Inc.
Eller case A group of foreign guestworkers lured from Mexico and Guatemala to plant pine trees for Eller and Sons Trees, Inc., one of the nation’s largest forestry contractors, were not paid the wages they had earned. The Southern Poverty Law Center sued the Franklin, Ga., company on behalf of the workers, winning an $11.8…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Federico Salinas-Rodriguez v. Alpha Services, Inc.
Alpha case This class action lawsuit against Alpha Services was brought for violations of minimum wage and overtime protections, and for other violations of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act. The Alpha settlement is a package of agreements providing safeguards for current and future workers. In addition to paying the plaintiffs and class…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Hugo Martin Recinos-Recinos, et al. v. Express Forestry Inc., et al.
Express case Class action lawsuit against forestry company for violations of minimum wage and overtime protections and for other violations of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act.
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