WPBF-TV reported yesterday on a lawsuit filed by 14 illegal aliens in Philadelphia.
Illegal immigrants who worked long shifts scrubbing theme restaurants for an indicted Florida-based janitorial firm have signed their names to a lawsuit seeking unpaid wages.
The suit, filed in Philadelphia, charges that some plaintiffs were rounded up in federal workplace raids in February and deported before receiving their final paychecks. Others said they worked 80 or 100 hour weeks without earning overtime pay or even the prevailing minimum wage.
The 14 plaintiffs - most from Mexico - worked for Rosenbaum-Cunningham International, a Palm Beach-based janitorial contractor.
Rosenbaum-Cunningham and three top executives were indicted this year in Michigan on federal charges they failed to check workers' immigration status and failed to pay the federal government employment taxes. The charges are still pending.
So, these people broke the law coming across the border illegally and accepted jobs they weren't entitled to have. Then, when the company that was willing to cheat the government on their behalf turned around and cheated them too, the illegals cry, "That's not right"?
It's too bad the cheaters got cheated, but I feel no pity. They knew the risks when they snuck across the border. God help us if they win their lawsuit.
2 comments:
Business, government, and the illegals are hand in hand on this one.
CG,
You've got that right. And the working stiffs like us (well, only theoretically like me right now)are the ones who get stiffed.
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