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cyu@sh.itjust.works to unions@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

Sportswear owner fired employees after they vote to join union, ordered to reinstate employees and pay back wages, instead shut down business and reopened same business under new name

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Sportswear owner fired employees after they vote to join union, ordered to reinstate employees and pay back wages, instead shut down business and reopened same business under new name

wisconsinexaminer.com

cyu@sh.itjust.works to unions@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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State sues garment company at the center of labor turmoil for unpaid wages • Wisconsin Examiner
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The lawsuit names successor companies and the company owner and says they're culpable for the back wages and penalties.
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  • Zuberi 👀@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    At that point just burn it down.

    Unionization WAS the alternative to killing the factory owner in front of his wife and kids.

    Bleed the 1%

    • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
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      I vote we have him gibbeted.

  • MNByChoice@midwest.social
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    Courts love thst bullshit.

    I look forward to future developments.

  • EchoCT@lemmy.ml
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    I’d also be ok with a firesale of his assets.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    He’s doing this with LLCs? What a moron.

    • ArgentCorvid [Iowa]@midwest.social
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      Why?

      (No really)

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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        If you are going to do dick moves, do them with C corporations. Because C corps are independent entities, you can better maintain an “arm’s length” relationship.

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    So you shut down your business, even if the courts decide “technically correct” on rehiring, your old business is still on the hook for back wages.

    “shutting down” doesn’t magically absolve you of financial obligations.

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      Hate to break it to you, but it often does. Something might be able to be done in this case becsuse it was so blatant.

      • Zuberi 👀@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        For this guy using LLCs it definitely won’t.

        But if somebody like Walmart / J&J do it with a subsidiary they guaranteed get away with it.

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