“What we’re asking of Tom Cat is to be a gold-standard employer here,” Brandworkers Founder and Executive Director Daniel Gross said. Residents, meanwhile, are complaining of missed pickups — a pattern Sanitation officials say is a product of pandemic-response truck schedules, not service cutbacks. Cuz it’s not so easy to be illegal and then get to apply for citizenship. To wit, an I-9 audit at the Tom Cat Bakery in Queens resulted in swirl of worker demonstrations, advocacy group involvement, union negotiations and media coverage. Colors Restaurant in Manhattan will refrain from serving any bread throughout the day. Wachtel did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Friday’s protest. Last month, the company advised workers that it was being investigated by federal immigration officials. Immigration Inquiry Draws Protest at Tom Cat Bakery. Tackle the city, with our help. A Tom Cat employee named Felipe who declined to give his last name said he and co-workers are heading to Trump Tower "to show that we’re here, we’re sticking together and we won’t be scared so easily.”, “I moved to New York City from Mexico years ago so that my children could have a better future, and I’ve worked hard at Tom Cat to help make that possible,” he said. “By speaking out, we are hoping to inspire people across the city to take a stand for a more fair and humane immigration policy.”. (Go Nakamura/New York Daily News) The protest over a Department of Homeland Security investigation that began in December and threatened the jobs of several immigrant workers at Tom Cat Bakery … The workers were at the time seeking fair compensation in the form of severance pay from Tom Cat Bakery. Elected officials including Comptroller Scott Stringer will join unions and immigrant advocacy groups for an expected 1,000-person march in front of President Donald Trump's Manhattan home, led by 31 workers anticipating a mass firing.
If Tom Cat were paying fair wages, maybe some of these people — Legal American Workers — would be doing at least some of this work instead of undocumented employees. Tom Cat Bakery in Long Island City alerted about 31 workers in March that they would be fired if they did not show legal authorization to work in the United States. Immigrants make up a major part of the city's food-producing workforce, including 72% of all cooks and 63% of all food preparers, according to a Fiscal Policy Institute report. “And that means cooperating to the fullest, legally and morally, to make sure that their valued workforce is as protected as possible.”. You don’t understand what it takes to move away from home and try to make a living in a different place! Rachael Yong Yow, a spokeswoman for the New York field office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency of the Homeland Security Department, would neither confirm nor deny that federal officials were investigating the bakery. Cyclists and pedestrians took over the south outer roadway of the Queensboro Bridge Sunday to demand that it be converted from a car lane into a pedestrian pathway. At least nine employees were able to produce the necessary paperwork, Mr. Wachtel said, and will remain with the company. "Tom Cat is doing everything reasonably possible within the confines of the law to cooperate with the union and their representatives for the sake of preserving as many jobs as possible for all members of the Tom Cat family," he said. Immigrant food workers will march on Trump Tower Saturday to protest an immigration crackdown on Long Island City's Tom Cat Bakery, whose baguettes are … She said employers that have to fire workers should pay severance, ensure that workers are paid out for all benefits and vacation days, and provide good references. Employees From NYC’s Tom Cat Bakery Protest Order To Produce Immigration Papers April 8, 2017 at 3:30 pm Filed Under: Immigration and Customs Enforcement , Trump Tower But at 3 a.m., a few protesters arrived at the factory and chained themselves to the bakery’s trucks, disrupting morning deliveries. The audacity to demand treatment as if they have done nothing wrong. The company passed the message on to the workers in letters, who, working with the nonprofit advocacy group Brandworkers, protested. “This audit began under the Obama administration, before Trump was president,” Wachtel said. Privacy Policy and they did not because they wanted them to work cheap. They chained themselves to delivery trucks and laid down under the vehicles overnight, attempting to prevent them from making their morning deliveries. “They trained me,” he said of his protesting colleagues. I was born into the slums of this wonderful country it’s wonderful for some not for all I live with what I’ve been dealt with which is a whole bunch of nothing so I signed a nap in my working papers at 16 which was the law and I would love a job. Oscar Ramirez, who worked at Tom Cat for 12 years, and is losing his job, said he did not feel scared or intimidated. These people had many years to become citizens.
this is why our young people cannoy easily get jobs, if you have a social security number no one wants you if they can get an illegal to work for half the price, that is why we have americans on welfare and homeless, I know this first hand . Then Tom Cat should have to pay back the city, state and feds all the payroll taxes on those wages.