BOSTON GLOBE targets Wage Slavery in Raynham MA (F)or its workers, the Grand China Buffet was a virtual prison. The labor was grueling, former employee Felipe Merino Sanchez said: six days a week, more than 12 hours per day, doing food prep, cleaning the dining room, and fixing the HVAC system. The kitchen lacked safety equipment, the floors were slippery and filled with holes, the oven leaked gas. Cooking often meant reheating days-old food for the buffet, including, once, seafood that the kitchen staff was asked to pick out of the trash. When workers complained, they were fired. At the end of each shift, employees were taken to a rooming house in neighboring Taunton where they were locked in for the night, according to Sanchez. Four to five people shared each room. “We couldn’t leave as we wanted,” Sanchez, whom the Globe located through worker advocates and government citations, said via a translator. “The door was alarmed.” When the police knocked on the door one day, though, he hid. “I thought I’d lose my job or get deported.”
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 21:08:39 +0000
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