If they felt like they weren't being treated properly (i.e. overtime, etc) then why did they wait until they were arrested to sue Wal-Mart and it's contractors?
because they couldn't come forward or risk deportation. now that they have been found out they can file there suit free from any retribution.
this sort of thing doesn't jst happen to illeagals. it often happens to young people or others who are ignorant of their rights.
my nephew worked for 6 months at a warehouse downtown. during the time he worked their I started noticing (only seeing him at family events every month or so) that he was losing a lot of weight.
it seems they where working him over 12 hours a day and his boss wasn't letting him take breaks. he worked nightshift and when he got home he was so tired all he could think about was getting sleep, so he often went days without food.
so the boss explained that they had to work through the breaks to stay caught up, or they would all be introuble for falling behind and would all be fired.
then when the first payday came hsi boss explained that he still had to subtract out the time for his 2 lunches(that he never got to take). because if they didn't they would all be in trouble for not taking the breaks(which is a violation of safety codes).
so not only was he working way to many hours without a break, he was getting the time he should have been on break deducted from his pay.
this sort of thing is not unusual. compnays do this sort of thing all the time and most people either don't know their rights or feel (sometimes rightly so) that if they complain they won't get anything for their trouble except fired.
many people who are being abused at work are also reciving a type of emotional/mental abuse, where they are constantly told what a screw-up they are and how they are damn lucky the boss gives them the
oportunity to work through their breaks to keep up, or there would be no way he could stop those above him from demanding that he fire them.
with jobs so hard to come-by people will endure this sort of thing while living in fear that theri paycheck will be taken away. just because they don't come forward until they reach a point where they have nothing to lose doesn't mean they don't have rights.
and regardless of the rights of the employees the company has a duty to meet legal standards of pay and working conditions. these standards are based on where the work is performed not on where the person performing the work comes from.
