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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)

submitted 7 months ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 174 points 7 months ago (3 children)

DWD determined that the 11 were owed $8,230 altogether. The lawsuit states Kruk’s failure to pay the back wages was “willful” and qualifies for a penalty of an additional 100% of the unpaid wages.

Bro could have made this go away for $17,000 but instead chose to commit blatant fraud. He really ought to lose everything.

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 92 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If there is justice in the world the system would now just seize the new business and hand all its assets to the employees to start a workers coop.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

If there was justice the owner would be getting arrested for theft.

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[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 58 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The rich will gladly spent 1000$ on a lawyer to keep people from getting a "free" 100$.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But they also got rid of the union in this process as well, presumably, which would cost them money by reducing how much wages they could steal from workers.

[–] AliasAKA@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Well, except defrauding the finding that you pay back wages and reinstate (with union) the employees you fired probably means you still gotta reinstate them and allow them to keep a union. And now you have a very hostile workforce who will all but ensure any new hires are pulled into the union. So really just a colossal mistake as far as I can tell.