Retail Workers Settle Back Wage and Discrimination Suits
Workers at the high-end clothing retailer Scoop NYC have won a victory that comes after a year of organizing, public demonstrations, and legal action to make the company follow wage and hour laws and respect immigrant worker rights. The confidential settlement is also a significant victory for the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union’s Retail Action Project (RAP), an organization that is dedicated to improving wages and working conditions for retail workers.
In late 2008, 17 Scoop NYC workers joined RAP and filed complaints and launched a campaign against the company.
Scoop NYC, a high-end clothier that operates 11 stores nationwide, allegedly required stock and security workers to labor 60 or more hours per week for over six years without paying the legal overtime rate. Some workers contend they were discriminated against on the basis of their national origin because Scoop refused to accept their legal work authorization papers.
Madou Kone, a former Scoop …
http://www.retailactionproject.org/updates/detail.php?id=28
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