The business owner stole from his employees, and when they unioized and sued him to stop the theft, he destroyed his business rather than pay them what he owed.
Can you imagine pulling this shit over $8,000?? That amount of money isn't the sort of money that's nothing to a business owner, but in the face of this sort of thing????? There are people that could have been a million dollars deep in the hole and had enough of a brain and a heart to go 'this is stupid, morally bankrupt, and not even worth the risk'
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.
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.
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.
It was recently brought to my attention, while being attacked for being part of a union and owning an EV, that the problem with America is employers treating employees too well.
If you are going to do dick moves, do them with C corporations. Because C corps are independent entities, you can better maintain an "arm's length" relationship.
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