$0.00/hour?!
BOYCOTT FOOD BAZAAR!
LATINO IMMIGRANT WORKERS AT FOOD BAZAAR WERE NEVER PAID.
EVER. At their supermarkets at 21 Manhattan Avenue and
454 Wyckoff Avenue in Brooklyn, Food Bazaar Supermarket and
CEO Francis An denied grocery baggers any wages. Food Bazaar
forced baggers to work regular schedules - as much as 6 or
7 days a week - and to survive only on customer tips, as little
as $100 per week.
“They took advantage of our fears and made us
compete with one another for crumbs. We made them rich
and they rewarded us for our hard work by firing us after
not paying us for so many years.”
- Dinora Aybar, Food
Bazaar worker for 7 years
Workers suffered daily abuse at the hands of Food
Bazaar. On busy days, they were denied bathroom
and meal breaks for as long as eight hours as they bagged
groceries, cleaned, and restocked shelves. They were forced
to pay the supermarket for purchased items customers left
behind. Some workers now have health problems or injuries.
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The 15 workers demand that Food Bazaar Supermarket &
CEO Francis An:
- Pay them all unpaid regular and overtime wages and
damages, totaling more than $1.8 million;
- Rehire them immediately and guarantee fair wages and
control over their schedules;
- Pay their wages lost since the time of firing; and
- Publicly apologize to the workers for the abuse and
mistreatment they suffered.
"It's time for service workers to say 'enough!' to
slave-like conditions," - Similiano Martinez, member
of the Service Workers Committee of the National Mobilization
Against SweatShops (NMASS).
Support the Food Bazaar workers by:
- Sending a letter to Food Bazaar CEO Francis An at Bogopa
Service, Corp, 650 Fountain Ave. , Brooklyn , N.Y. , 11208
or calling at (718) 346-6500
- Contact us to about spreading the word through circulating
petitions, fliers, emails.
- Making contributions to support the campaign (make checks
out to: National Mobilization Against SweatShops, earmarked
to the JWBS Campaign and send to: NMASS, P.O. Box 130293
, N.Y. , N.Y. 10013 ). The Justice Will Be Served Campaign
unites restaurant, hotel, supermarket, deli and other service
workers across New York to fight against long hours, second-class
wages, stolen tips and other sweatshop conditions.
Have you worked in a supermarket, restaurant or other
job where the boss stole wages or mistreated you?
Call NMASS at (212) 358-0295.
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