Seafood Workers Sue Plant, Claiming Extortion
A lawsuit filed in federal District Court alleges that workers at a New Bedford seafood processing plant were forced to pay $100 a week to a plant manager to keep their jobs.
It also alleges that employees living in Rhode Island contracted through an employment agency were required to pay $60 per week for transportation to the plant.
The complaint is made against Marder Trawling Inc. and plant manager Francisco Ixcotoyac Dionicio and Workforce Unlimited of Johnston, Rhode Island, and Andrew Wilke, who is described as acting as...
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