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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 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 174 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 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.