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"el milagro" Discussed on WGN Radio
"David Castile Sunday Night at club escape Castile gave stamps a ride home and went up to his apartment Court records show later that night a neighbor saw blood in a hallway and called police Once on scene they found stamps covered in blood outside near a dumpster He initially told officers he fell down the stairs and landed in a pool of blood but then later admitted he hit the victim numerous times with a hammer while inside his bedroom claiming self defense Decided there was more than enough evidence to bring about murder charges despite that self defense claim Amazon's ending its ban on an employee cell phones in its warehouses pressure on the company increased after 6 workers died when part of its warehouse in down state edwardsville collapsed during a storm last December Employees said they were cut off from weather warnings their phones could have provided Chicago tortilla maker el milagro is accused of flagrant violations of state labor laws according to the tribune the Illinois Department of Labor alleges the company denied proper meal breaks to workers The report cites more than a hundred violations in 7 months resulting in more than $11,000 in fines El milagro is disputing the allegations The American society of civil engineers here in Illinois is out with its infrastructure report card for the state And once again it's a C minus The group looks at the condition of performance of infrastructure as well as needed investments for improvement The society says there have been improvements in roads and bridges but the state continues to have one of the largest shirts shares of lead service in water pipelines in the nation civil engineer Patrick Locke In drinking water we highlight the lead problem the lead service line problem that is a major safety issue that we are concerned about with our citizens who have lead service lines The civil engineers gave the state a C minus grade not just this year like four years ago but even four years earlier in 2014 WGN sports Josh Friedman the White Sox lose their third series in a row falling 5 two to the royals They welcome Joe Maddon and the angels to guaranteed right for a four game set The cubs dropped their rubber match with the defending champion braised 5 to one Now head to Milwaukee for a weekend series The bears did not have a pick in the first round of the NFL Draft They have two in round two picks 39 and 48 overall for new GM Ryan poles The Blackhawks hire cubs assistant GM Jeff Greenberg as their associate general manager and the sky will host the WNBA All-Star Game July 10th Josh Friedman WGN sports The forecast from the WGA Chicago weather center today cloudy and breezy showers later tonight a high of 65 cooler lakeside a rainy Saturday and windy storms could turn severe Saturday night I have 70° The Sunday is the better weekend day partly sunny windy maybe an isolated shower I have 63 and the next storm sweep through the area Monday night and next Thursday night Right now it is cloudy and 47 Ed O'Hare warmer 52 at midway I'm James Sears.
Democracy Now! Audio
"el milagro" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"What nobody wanted by. Geoffrey lewis voltage. This is democracy. Now i mean good with one gonzales. We end today's show in chicago. Where workers at on the law growth tortilla plant station temporary walkout to protest low pay staff shortages and abusive working conditions including intimidation and sexual harassment. When they return to work discovered management had locked them out in retaliation. This is el milagro worker. Ama- gonzales they didn't let go back to work. We had our personal belongings inside the plan. In my case i'm pregnant. My medicine was still inside and they denied us entry. This is not fair. we're simply fighting for our rights. We're not trying to harm the company. El milagro claims and ongoing shortages due to supply chain issues but organizers say the company's lost staff due to their poor treatment of workers including their mishandling of the pandemic last year. Dozens of workers got sick during a covert outbreak. Five died this is another magog or worker. My team solace in cool changed up occupy peck not packages per minute case. Put it on a pallet and come right back. Because if i don't keep up this pace tortillas will fall off the machine and they'll blame me. Workers have given el milagro management until end of day wednesday to respond to their demands. The company was founded in chicago in one thousand nine hundred fifty by raul lopez mexican immigrant cells tortillas around the country for more. We go to chicago to speak with horrid mujica strategic campaigns organizer at arise chicago. Or you've been working closely with the workers for several years. Can you talk about what the demands are. And what will happen on wednesday. Yes thank you very much. Good morning on wednesday. Nothing yet because we gave or the workers gave the company a deadline to the end of the day but on thursdays surely workers are going to come back and demand answers from the company. Their main demands are a fair wages kale because the company's paying only forty cents above minimum wage on at the same time advertising new jobs for sixteen dollars so sixty cents above people who have been working there for ten fifteen twenty and twenty years. That's the most important that man they say. The allegra needs to track me workers and that is going to happen if they increase wages and the other one is definitely to reduce the speed of the machines where workers are telling us. Is that the company instead of offering better wages. I'm hiring more. People is just cranking up the machines so they have to pack eighty packages per minute. I mean less than one second to pac twelve thirteen years. Gluing paper envelope on the in the in the boxes. So that's insane. They say okay. They increase the speed of the machines. But they can't increase hours meet. We are not machines so they want to put a stop on that it. Could you talk for people who are not familiar with milagro the importance of this this facility and the plants that it has in the in the mexican american community of milagro tortillas are famous throughout chicago in the mid west and the fact that it's largely a mexican ownership as well. Yes they are the most famous and largest maker in the mid west. They've you go by one of the plans. They they have five plants and three restaurants. If you go to one of the plans are four o'clock in the morning you would see. Trucks lining up from ohio from iowa from wisconsin wisconsin michigan. I mean this is Amazing millions of tortillas every day. They're incredibly famous. They are good and they are good because it workers who really you know Put their best there for two to produce this thirty s and this is family owned just one family controls the whole consortium and they are steal the with practices belonging in the nineteen seventies under the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. They they only by call new machines every year but conditions are really awful. This is a sweatshop and last year over eighty of the employees. Came down with colbert and five die. What kind of health and safety a protocols were they using their non at all and We have all pretty much criminal behaviors. There where they forbade workers to wear face masks. They told them that. No the know. The workforce was going to feel unstable if they saw anybody wearing face masks. So they'd they'd be metal. Al anyone to do it for a while. On -til of course off diseases spread and people started dying and then they shut down one of the five plants to clean it out but as we're told the workers last year the machines sneeze. This is people to people. Person to person contagion solo. The workers got up together and impose know some basic precautions and then down the line there. The company decided to to respect social these units era. But this is crowded. Space designed for production is not designed as any other productions space is not designed to take care of people's health is designed to produce merchandise and getting money can you what about the sexual harassment allegations as well. Sorry yes. there are several sexual harassment. Accusations workers complained that they have denounced the to management and what management does is to move the supervisor from one plan to the next one instead of solving the problems that have training their supervisor instead of raising really would've standards and where he can you talk about what happened to the workers after they Had their rally last week. We just played air gonzalez Chuck being pregnant and being locked out of punch couldn't get her medication. What the plans are for tomorrow for wednesday. We had called the police and the police came an open of the planning to allow workers to to get their personal belongings and the next day we went with it. Workers through report to a human resources and human resources simply gave off saying we will pay you for the hours. You're lost yesterday. The lockout saw it was a round victory for workers. The workers are demanding. Now is the plant. The management to sit down with the management just hired a union boston to go and talk to them about how bad unions are workers. Say he's talking about unions. We're talking about decency. We are talking about wages. We are talking. About the heat. In the workplace they work at ninety five degrees including their mealtime knowing the launch room. Ninety five degrees. That's what we want to talk about.
Democracy Now! Audio
"el milagro" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"What nobody wanted by geoffrey. Lewis voltage this is democracy. Now i mean good with one gonzales. We end today's show in chicago. Where workers at on the law growth tortilla plant station temporary walkout to protest low pay staff shortages and abusive working conditions including intimidation and sexual harassment. When they return to work discovered management had locked them out in retaliation. This is el milagro worker. Ama- gonzales they didn't let go back to work. We had our personal belongings inside the plan. In my case i'm pregnant. My medicine was still inside and they denied us entry. This is not fair. we're simply fighting for our rights. We're not trying to harm the company. L. milagro claims and ongoing Shortages due to supply chain issues but organizers say the company's lost staff due to their poor treatment of workers including their mishandling of the pandemic last year. Dozens of workers got sick during a covert outbreak. Five died this is another magog or worker. My team solace in cool changed up occupy peck tortilla packages per minute case. Put it on a pallet and come right back. Because if i don't keep up this pace tortillas will fall off the machine and they'll blame me. Workers have given el milagro management until end of day wednesday to respond to their demands. The company was founded in chicago in one thousand nine hundred fifty by raul lopez. Mexican immigrants cells tortillas around the country for more we go to chicago to speak with horrid mujica strategic campaigns organizer at arise chicago. Or you've been working closely with the workers for several years. Can you talk about what the demands are. And what will happen on wednesday. Yes thank you very much. Good morning on wednesday. Nothing yet because we gave or the workers gave the company a deadline to the end of the day but on thursdays surely workers are going to come back and demand answers from the company. Their main demands are a fair wages kale because the company's paying only forty cents above minimum wage on at the same time advertising new jobs for sixteen dollars so sixty cents bowl people who have been working there for ten fifteen twenty and twenty years. That's the most important that man they say. The allegra needs to track me workers and that is going to happen if they increase wages and the other one is definitely to reduce the speed of the machines. Workers are telling us. Is that the company instead of offering better wages. I'm hiring more. People is just cranking up the machines so they have to pack eighty packages per minute. I mean less than one second to pac twelve thirteen years. Gluing paper envelope on the in the in the boxes. So that's insane. They say okay. They increase the speed of the machines. But they can't increase hours meet. We are not machines so they want to put a stop on that it. Could you talk for people who are not familiar with milagro the importance of this this facility and the plants that it has in the in the mexican american community of milagro tortillas are famous throughout chicago in the mid west and the fact that it's largely a mexican ownership as well. Yes they are the most famous and largest maker in the mid west. They've you go by one of the plans. They they have five plants and three restaurants. If you go to one of the plans are four o'clock in the morning you would see. Trucks lining up from ohio from iowa from wisconsin wisconsin michigan. I mean this is Amazing millions of tortillas every day. They're incredibly famous. They are good and they are good. Because it workers really you know Put their best there for two to produce this thirty s and this is family owned just one family controls the whole consortium and they are steal the with practices belonging the nineteen seventies under the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. They they only by call new machines every year but conditions are really awful. This is a sweatshop and last year over eighty of the employees. Came down with colbert and five die. What kind of health and safety a protocols were they using their non at all and We have all pretty much criminal behaviors. There where they forbade workers to wear face masks. They told them that. No the know. The workforce was going to feel unstable if they saw anybody wearing face masks. So they'd they'd be metal. Al anyone to do it for a while. On -til of course off diseases spread and people started dying and then they shut down one of the five plants to clean it out. But as we're told the workers last year the the machines sneeze. This is people to people person to person contagion solo. The workers got up together and impose know some basic precautions and then down the line. The company decided to to respect social these units era. But this is crowded. Space designed for production is not designed as any other productions space is not designed to take care of people's health is designed to produce merchandise and getting money can you what about the sexual harassment allegations as well. Sorry yes. there are several sexual harassment. Accusations workers complained that they have denounced the to management and what management does is to move the supervisor from one plan to the next one instead of solving the problems that have training their supervisor instead of raising really would've standards and where he can you talk about what happened to the workers after they Had their rally last week. We just played air to matt gonzalez Chuck being pregnant and being locked out of punch couldn't get her medication. What the plans are for tomorrow for wednesday. We had called the police and the police came an open of the planning to allow workers to to get their personal belongings and the next day we went with it. Workers through report to a human resources and human resources simply gave off saying we will pay you for the hours. You're lost yesterday. The lockout saw it was a round victory for workers. The workers are demanding. Now is the plant. The management to sit down with the management just hired a union boston to go and talk to them about how bad unions are workers. Say he's talking about unions. We're talking about decency. We are talking about wages. We are talking about the heat. In the workplace they work at ninety five degrees including their mealtime. The launch room. Ninety five degrees. That's what we want to talk about.
Democracy Now! Audio
"el milagro" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"What nobody wanted by geoffrey. Lewis voltage this is democracy. Now i mean good with one gonzales. We end today's show in chicago. Where workers at on the law growth tortilla plant station temporary walkout to protest low pay staff shortages and abusive working conditions including intimidation and sexual harassment. When they return to work discovered management had locked them out in retaliation. This is el milagro worker. Ama- gonzales they didn't let go back to work. We had our personal belongings inside the plan. In my case i'm pregnant. My medicine was still inside and they denied us entry. This is not fair. we're simply fighting for our rights. We're not trying to harm the company. El milagro claims and ongoing shortages due to supply chain issues but organizers say the company's lost staff due to their poor treatment of workers including their mishandling of the pandemic last year. Dozens of workers got sick during a covert outbreak. Five died this is another magog or worker. My team solace in cool changed up occupy peck tortilla packages per minute case. Put it on a pallet and come right back. Because if i don't keep up this pace tortillas will fall off the machine and they'll blame me. Workers have given el milagro management until end of day wednesday to respond to their demands. The company was founded in chicago in one thousand nine hundred fifty by raul lopez mexican immigrant cells tortillas around the country for more. We go to chicago to speak with horrid mujica strategic campaigns organizer at arise chicago. Or you've been working closely with the workers for several years. Can you talk about what the demands are. And what will happen on wednesday. Yes thank you very much. Good morning on wednesday. Nothing yet because we gave or the workers gave the company a deadline to the end of the day but on thursdays surely workers are going to come back and demand answers from the company. Their main demands are a fair wages kale because the company's paying only forty cents above minimum wage on at the same time advertising new jobs for sixteen dollars so sixty cents above people who have been working there for ten fifteen twenty and twenty years. That's the most important that man they say. The allegra needs to track me workers and that is going to happen if they increase wages and the other one is definitely to reduce the speed of the machines where workers are telling us. Is that the company instead of offering better wages. I'm hiring more. People is just cranking up the machines so they have to pack eighty packages per minute. I mean less than one second to pac twelve thirteen years. Gluing paper envelope on the in the in the boxes. So that's insane. They say okay. They increase the speed of the machines. But they can't increase hours meet. We are not machines so they want to put a stop on that it. Could you talk for people who are not familiar with milagro the importance of this this facility and the plants that it has in the in the mexican american community of milagro tortillas are famous throughout chicago in the mid west and the fact that it's largely a mexican ownership as well. Yes they are the most famous and largest maker in the mid west. They've you go by one of the plans. They they have five plants and three restaurants. If you go to one of the plans are four o'clock in the morning you would see. Trucks lining up from ohio from iowa from wisconsin wisconsin michigan. I mean this is Amazing millions of tortillas every day. They're incredibly famous. They are good and they are good. Because it workers really you know Put their best there for two to produce this thirty s and this is family owned just one family controls the whole consortium and they are steal the with practices belonging the nineteen seventies under the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. They they only by call new machines every year but conditions are really awful. This is a sweatshop and last year over eighty of the employees. Came down with colbert and five die. What kind of health and safety a protocols were they using their non at all and We have all pretty much criminal behaviors. There where they forbade workers to wear face masks. They told them that. No the you know. The workforce was going to feel unstable. If they saw anybody wearing face masks. So they'd they'd be metal. Al anyone to do it for a while. On -til of course off diseases spread and people started dying and then they shut down one of the five plants to clean it out but as we're told the workers last year the machines sneeze. This is people to people. Person to person contagion solo. The workers got up together and impose know some basic precautions and then down the line there. The company decided to to respect social these units era. But this is crowded. Space designed for production is not designed as any other productions space is not designed to take care of people's health is designed to produce merchandise and getting money can you what about the sexual harassment allegations as well. Sorry yes. there are several sexual harassment. Accusations workers complained that they have denounced the to management and what management does is to move the supervisor from one plan to the next one instead of solving the problems that have training their supervisor instead of raising really would've standards and where he can you talk about what happened to the workers after they Had their rally last week. We just played air gonzalez Chuck being pregnant and being locked out of punch couldn't get her medication. What the plans are for tomorrow for wednesday. We had called the police and the police came an open of the planning to allow workers to to get their personal belongings and the next day we went with it. Workers through report to a human resources and human resources simply gave off saying we will pay you for the hours. You're lost yesterday. The lockout saw it was a round victory for workers. The workers are demanding. Now is the plant. The management to sit down with the management just hired a union boston to go and talk to them about how bad unions are workers. Say he's talking about unions. We're talking about decency. We are talking about wages. We are talking about the heat. In the workplace they work at ninety five degrees including their mealtime launch room. Ninety five degrees. That's what we want to talk about.
Democracy Now! Audio
"el milagro" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"What nobody wanted by geoffrey. Lewis voltage this is democracy. Now i mean good with one gonzales. We end today's show in chicago. Where workers at on the law growth tortilla plant station temporary walkout to protest low pay staff shortages and abusive working conditions including intimidation and sexual harassment. When they return to work discovered management had locked them out in retaliation. This is el milagro worker. Ama- gonzales they didn't let go back to work. We had our personal belongings inside the plan. In my case i'm pregnant. My medicine was still inside and they denied us entry. This is not fair. we're simply fighting for our rights. We're not trying to harm the company. L. milagro claims and ongoing tortilla shortages due to supply chain issues but organizers say the company's lost staff due to their poor treatment of workers including their mishandling of the pandemic last year. Dozens of workers got sick during a covert outbreak. Five died this is another magog or worker. My team solace in cool changed up occupy peck tortilla packages per minute case. Put it on a pallet and come right back. Because if i don't keep up this pace tortillas will fall off the machine and they'll blame me. Workers have given el milagro management until end of day wednesday to respond to their demands. The company was founded in chicago in one thousand nine hundred fifty by raul lopez. Mexican immigrants cells tortillas around the country for more we go to chicago to speak with horrid mujica strategic campaigns organizer at arise chicago. Or you've been working closely with the workers for several years. Can you talk about what the demands are. And what will happen on wednesday. Yes thank you very much. Good morning on wednesday. Nothing yet because we gave or the workers gave the company a deadline to the end of the day but on thursdays surely workers are going to come back and demand answers from the company. Their main demands are a fair wages kale because the company's paying only forty cents above minimum wage on at the same time advertising new jobs for sixteen dollars so sixty cents bowl people who have been working there for ten fifteen twenty and twenty years. That's the most important that man they say. The allegra needs to track me workers and that is going to happen if they increase wages and the other one is definitely to reduce the speed of the machines. Workers are telling us. Is that the company instead of offering better wages. I'm hiring more. People is just cranking up the machines so they have to pack eighty packages per minute. I mean less than one second to pac twelve thirteen years. Gluing paper envelope on the in the in the boxes. So that's insane. They say okay. They increase the speed of the machines. But they can't increase hours meet. We are not machines so they want to put a stop on that it. Could you talk for people who are not familiar with milagro the importance of this this facility and the plants that it has in the in the mexican american community of milagro tortillas are famous throughout chicago in the mid west and the fact that it's largely a mexican ownership as well. Yes they are the most famous and largest maker in the mid west. They've you go by one of the plans. They they have five plants and three restaurants. If you go to one of the plans are four o'clock in the morning you would see. Trucks lining up from ohio from iowa from wisconsin wisconsin michigan. I mean this is Amazing millions of tortillas every day. They're incredibly famous. They are good and they are good because it workers who really you know Put their best there for two to produce this thirty s and this is family owned just one family controls the whole consortium and they are steal the with practices belonging the nineteen seventies under the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. They they only by call new machines every year but conditions are really awful. This is a sweatshop and last year over eighty of the employees. Came down with colbert and five die. What kind of health and safety a protocols were they using their non at all and We have all pretty much criminal behaviors. There where they forbade workers to wear face masks. They told them that. No the you know. The workforce was going to feel unstable. If they saw anybody wearing face masks. So they'd they'd be metal. Al anyone to do it for a while. On -til of course off diseases spread and people started dying and then they shut down one of the five plants to clean it out but as we're told the workers last year the machines sneeze. This is people to people. Person to person contagion solo. The workers got up together and impose you know some basic precautions and then down the line there. The company decided to to respect social these units era. But this is crowded. Space designed for production is not designed as any other productions space is not designed to take care of people's health is designed to produce merchandise and getting money can you what about the sexual harassment allegations as well. Sorry yes. there are several sexual harassment. Accusations workers complained that they have denounced the to management and what management does is to move the supervisor from one plan to the next one instead of solving the problems that have training their supervisor instead of raising really would've standards and where he can you talk about what happened to the workers after they Had their rally last week. We just played air gonzalez Chuck being pregnant and being locked out of punch couldn't get her medication. What the plans are for tomorrow for wednesday. Yeah well we had called the police and the police came an open of the planning to allow workers to to get their personal belongings and the next day we went with it. Workers through report to a human resources and human resources simply gave off saying we will pay you for the hours. You're lost yesterday. The lockout saw it was a round victory for workers. The workers are demanding. Now is the plant. The management to sit down with the management just hired a union boston to go and talk to them about how bad unions are workers. Say he's talking about unions. We're talking about decency. We are talking about wages. We are talking. About the heat. In the workplace they work at ninety five degrees including their mealtime knowing the launch room. Ninety five degrees. That's what we want to talk about.
Democracy Now! Audio
"el milagro" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"What nobody wanted by geoffrey. Lewis voltage this is democracy. Now i mean good with one gonzales. We end today's show in chicago. Where workers at on the law growth tortilla plant station temporary walkout to protest low pay staff shortages and abusive working conditions including intimidation and sexual harassment. When they return to work discovered management had locked them out in retaliation. This is el milagro worker. Ama- gonzales they didn't let go back to work. We had our personal belongings inside the plan. In my case i'm pregnant. My medicine was still inside and they denied us entry. This is not fair. we're simply fighting for our rights. We're not trying to harm the company. L. milagro claims and ongoing tortilla shortages due to supply chain issues but organizers say the company's lost staff due to their poor treatment of workers including their mishandling of the pandemic last year. Dozens of workers got sick during a covert outbreak. Five died this is another magog or worker. My team solace in cool changed up occupy peck tortilla packages per minute case. Put it on a pallet and come right back. Because if i don't keep up this pace tortillas will fall off the machine and they'll blame me. Workers have given el milagro management until end of day wednesday to respond to their demands. The company was founded in chicago in one thousand nine hundred fifty by raul lopez mexican immigrant cells tortillas around the country for more. We go to chicago to speak with horrid mujica strategic campaigns organizer at arise chicago. Or you've been working closely with the workers for several years. Can you talk about what the demands are. And what will happen on wednesday. Yes thank you very much. Good morning on wednesday. Nothing yet because we gave or the workers gave the company a deadline to the end of the day but on thursdays surely workers are going to come back and demand answers from the company. Their main demands are a fair wages kale because the company's paying only forty cents above minimum wage on at the same time advertising new jobs for sixteen dollars so sixty cents bowl people who have been working there for ten fifteen twenty and twenty years. That's the most important that man they say. The allegra needs to track me workers and that is going to happen if they increase wages and the other one is definitely to reduce the speed of the machines where workers are telling us. Is that the company instead of offering better wages. I'm hiring more. People is just cranking up the machines so they have to pack eighty packages per minute. I mean less than one second to pac twelve thirteen years. Gluing paper envelope on the in the in the boxes. So that's insane. They say okay. They increase the speed of the machines. But they can't increase hours meet. We are not machines so they want to put a stop on that it. Could you talk for people who are not familiar with milagro the importance of this this facility and the plants that it has in the in the mexican american community of milagro tortillas are famous throughout chicago in the mid west and the fact that it's largely a mexican ownership as well. Yes they are the most famous and largest maker in the mid west. They've you go by one of the plans. They they have five plants and three restaurants. If you go to one of the plans are four o'clock in the morning you would see. Trucks lining up from ohio from iowa from wisconsin wisconsin michigan. I mean this is Amazing millions of tortillas every day. They're incredibly famous. Day are good and they are good because it workers really you know Put their best there for two to produce this thirty s and this is family owned just one family controls the whole consortium and they are steal the with practices belonging the nineteen seventies under the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. They they only by call new machines every year but conditions are really awful. This is a sweatshop and last year over eighty of the employees. Came down with colbert and five die. What kind of health and safety a protocols were they using their non at all and We have all pretty much criminal behaviors. There where they forbade workers to wear face masks. They told them that. No the know. The workforce was going to feel unstable if they saw anybody wearing face masks. So they'd they'd be metal. Al anyone to do it for a while. On -til of course off diseases spread and people started dying and then they shut down one of the five plants to clean it out but as we're told the workers last year you know the the the machines sneeze. This is people to people person to person. Contagion solo the workers got up together and impose you know some basic precautions and then down the line there. The company decided to to respect social these units era. But this is crowded. Space designed for production is not designed as any other productions space is not designed to take care of people's health is designed to produce merchandise and getting money can you what about the sexual harassment allegations as well. Sorry yes. there are several sexual harassment. Accusations workers complained that they have denounced the to management and what management does is to move the supervisor from one plan to the next one instead of solving the problems that have training their supervisor instead of raising really would've standards and where he can you talk about what happened to the workers after they Had their rally last week. We just played air to gonzalez Chuck being pregnant and being locked out of punch couldn't get her medication. What the plans are for tomorrow for wednesday. Yeah well we had called the police and the police came an open of the planning to allow workers to to get their personal belongings and the next day we went with it. Workers through report to a human resources and human resources simply gave off saying we will pay you for the hours. You're lost yesterday. The lockout saw it was a round victory for workers. The workers are demanding. Now is the plant. The management to sit down with the management just hired a union boston to go and talk to them about how bad unions are workers. Say he's talking about unions. We're talking about decency. We are talking about wages. We are talking about the heat. In the workplace they work at ninety five degrees including their mealtime. The launch room. Ninety five degrees. That's what we want to talk about.
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"el milagro" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"What nobody wanted by geoffrey. Lewis voltage this is democracy. Now i mean good with one gonzales. We end today's show in chicago. Where workers at on the law growth tortilla plant station temporary walkout to protest low pay staff shortages and abusive working conditions including intimidation and sexual harassment. When they return to work discovered management had locked them out in retaliation. This is el milagro worker. Ama- gonzales they didn't let go back to work. We had our personal belongings inside the plan. In my case i'm pregnant. My medicine was still inside and they denied us entry. This is not fair. we're simply fighting for our rights. We're not trying to harm the company. L. milagro claims and ongoing tortilla shortages due to supply chain issues but organizers say the company's lost staff due to their poor treatment of workers including their mishandling of the pandemic last year. Dozens of workers got sick during a covert outbreak. Five died this is another magog or worker. My team solace in cool changed up occupy peck tortilla packages per minute case. Put it on a pallet and come right back. Because if i don't keep up this pace tortillas will fall off the machine and they'll blame me. Workers have given el milagro management until end of day wednesday to respond to their demands. The company was founded in chicago in one thousand nine hundred fifty by raul lopez mexican immigrant cells tortillas around the country for more. We go to chicago to speak with horrid mujica strategic campaigns organizer at arise chicago. Or you've been working closely with the workers for several years. Can you talk about what the demands are. And what will happen on wednesday. Yes thank you very much. Good morning On wednesday nothing yet because we gave or the workers gave the company a deadline to the end of the day but on thursdays surely workers are going to come back and demand answers from the company. Their main demands are a fair wages kale because the company's paying only forty cents above minimum wage on at the same time advertising new jobs for sixteen dollars so cents above people who have been working there for ten fifteen twenty and twenty years. That's the most important that man they say. The allegra needs to track me workers and that is going to happen if they increase wages and the other one is definitely to reduce the speed of the machines where workers are telling us. Is that the company in instead of offering better wages. I'm hiring more. People is just cranking up the machines so they have to pack eighty packages per minute. I mean less than one second to pac twelve thirteen years. Gluing paper envelope on the in the in the boxes. So that's insane. They say okay. They increase the speed of the machines. But they can't increase hours meet. We are not machines so they want to put a stop on that it. Could you talk for people who are not familiar with milagro the importance of this this facility and the plants that it has in the in the mexican american community of milagro tortillas are famous throughout chicago in the mid west and the fact that it's largely a mexican ownership as well. Yes they are the most famous and largest maker in the mid west. They've you go by one of the plans. They they have five plants and three restaurants. If you go to one of the plans are four o'clock in the morning you would see. Trucks lining up from ohio from iowa from wisconsin wisconsin michigan. I mean this is Amazing millions of tortillas every day. They're incredibly famous. They are good and they are good. Because it workers really you know Put their best there for two to produce this thirty s and this is family owned just one family controls the whole consortium and they are steal the with practices belonging the nineteen seventies under the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. They they only by call new machines every year but conditions are really awful. This is a sweatshop and last year over eighty of the employees. Came down with colbert and five die. What kind of health and safety a protocols were they using their non at all and We have all pretty much criminal behaviors. There where they forbade workers to wear face masks. They told them that. No the know. The workforce was going to feel unstable if they saw anybody wearing face masks. So they'd they'd be metal. Al anyone to do it for a while. On -til of course off diseases spread and people started dying and then they shut down one of the five plants to clean it out but as we're told the workers last year the machines sneeze. This is people to people. Person to person contagion solo. The workers got up together and impose know some basic precautions and then down the line. The company decided to to respect social these units era. But this is crowded. Space designed for production is not designed as any other productions space is not designed to take care of people's health is designed to produce merchandise and getting money can you what about the sexual harassment allegations as well. Sorry yes. there are several sexual harassment. Workers complained that they have denounced the to management and what management does is to move the supervisor from one plan to the next one instead of solving the problems that have training their supervisor instead of raising really would've standards and where he can you talk about what happened to the workers after they Had their rally last week. We just played aired gonzales Chuck being pregnant and being locked out of punch couldn't get her medication. What the plans are for tomorrow for wednesday. We had called the police and the police came an open of the planning to allow workers to to get their personal belongings and the next day we went with it. Workers through report to a human resources and human resources simply gave off saying we will pay you for the hours. You're lost yesterday. The lockout saw it was a round victory for workers. The workers are demanding. Now is the plant. The management to sit down with the management just hired a union boston to go and talk to them about how bad unions are workers. Say he's talking about unions. We're talking about decency. We are talking about wages. We are talking. About the heat. In the workplace they work at ninety five degrees including their mealtime knowing the launch room. Ninety five degrees. That's what we want to talk about.
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"What nobody wanted by geoffrey. Lewis voltage this is democracy. Now i mean good with one gonzales. We end today's show in chicago. Where workers at on the law growth tortilla plant station temporary walkout to protest low pay staff shortages and abusive working conditions including intimidation and sexual harassment. When they return to work discovered management had locked them out in retaliation. This is el milagro worker. Ama- gonzales they didn't let go back to work. We had our personal belongings inside the plan. In my case i'm pregnant. My medicine was still inside and they denied us entry. This is not fair. we're simply fighting for our rights. We're not trying to harm the company. El milagro claims and ongoing tortilla shortages due to supply chain issues but organizers say the company's lost staff due to their poor treatment of workers including their mishandling of the pandemic last year. Dozens of workers got sick during a covert outbreak. Five died this is another magog or worker. My team solace in cool changed up occupy peck tortilla packages. Per minute. i load a case. Put it on a pallet and come right back. Because if i don't keep up this pace tortillas will fall off the machine and they'll blame me. Workers have given el milagro management until end of day wednesday to respond to their demands. The company was founded in chicago in one thousand nine hundred fifty by raul lopez mexican immigrant cells tortillas around the country for more. We go to chicago to speak with horrid mojica strategic campaigns organizer at arise chicago. Or you've been working closely with the workers for several years. Can you talk about what the demands are. And what will happen on wednesday. Yes thank you very much. Good morning On wednesday nothing yet because we gave or the workers gave the company a deadline to the end of the day but on thursdays surely workers are going to come back and demand answers from the company. Their main demands are a fair wages kale because the company's paying only forty cents above minimum wage on at the same time advertising new jobs for sixteen dollars so cents a bowl people who have been working there for ten fifteen twenty and twenty years. That's the most important that man they say. The allegra needs to track me workers and that is going to happen if they increase wages and the other one is definitely to reduce the speed of the machines where workers are telling us. Is that the company instead of offering better wages. I'm hiring more. People is just cranking up the machines so they have to pack eighty packages per minute. I mean less than one second to pac twelve thirteen years. Gluing paper envelope on in the in the boxes. So that's insane. They say okay. They increase the speed of the machines. But they can't increase hours meet. We are not machines so they want to put a stop on that it. Could you talk for people who are not familiar with milagro the importance of this this facility and the plants that it has in the in the mexican american community of milagro tortillas are famous throughout chicago in the mid west and the fact that it's largely a mexican ownership as well. Yes they are the most famous and largest maker in the mid west. They've you go by one of the plans. They they have five plants and three restaurants. If you go to one of the plans are four o'clock in the morning you would see. Trucks lining up from ohio from iowa from wisconsin wisconsin michigan. I mean this is Amazing millions of tortillas every day. They're incredibly famous. They are good and they are good. Because it workers really you know Put their best there for two to produce this thirty s and this is family owned just one family controls. The whole consortium and they are steal the with with practices belonging the nineteen seventies under the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. They they only by call new machines every year but conditions are really awful. This is a sweatshop and last year over eighty of the employees. Came down with colbert and five die. What kind of health and safety a protocols were they using their non at all and We have all pretty much criminal behaviors. There where they forbade workers to wear face masks. They told them that. No the know. The workforce was going to feel unstable if they saw anybody wearing face masks. So they'd they'd be metal. Al anyone to do it for a while. On -til of course off diseases spread and people started dying and then they shut down one of the five plants to clean it out but as we're told the workers last year the machines sneeze. This is people to people. Person to person contagion solo. The workers got up together and impose you know some basic precautions and then down the line. The company decided to to respect social these units era. But this is crowded. Space designed for production is not designed as any other productions space is not designed to take care of people's health is designed to produce merchandise and getting money can you what about the sexual harassment allegations as well. Sorry yes. there are several sexual harassment. Accusations workers complained that they have denounced the to management and what management does is to move the supervisor from one plan to the next one instead of solving the problems that have training their supervisor instead of raising really would've standards and where he can you talk about what happened to the workers after they Had their rally last week. We just played air to gonzalez Chuck being pregnant and being locked out of punch couldn't get her medication. What the plans are for tomorrow for wednesday. Yeah well we had called the police and the police came an open of the planning to allow workers to to get their personal belongings and the next day we went with it. Workers through report to a human resources and human resources simply gave off saying we will pay you for the hours. You're lost yesterday. The lockout saw it was a round victory for workers. The workers are demanding. Now is the plant. The management to sit down with the management just hired a union boston to go and talk to them about how bad unions are workers. Say he's talking about unions. We're talking about decency. We are talking about wages. We are talking. About the heat. In the workplace they work at ninety five degrees including their mealtime knowing the launch room. Ninety five degrees. That's what we want to talk about.
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"What nobody wanted by geoffrey. Lewis voltage this is democracy. Now i mean good with one gonzales. We end today's show in chicago. Where workers at on the law growth tortilla plant station temporary walkout to protest low pay staff shortages and abusive working conditions including intimidation and sexual harassment. When they return to work discovered management had locked them out in retaliation. This is el milagro worker. Ama- gonzales they didn't let go back to work. We had our personal belongings inside the plan. In my case i'm pregnant. My medicine was still inside and they denied us entry. This is not fair. we're simply fighting for our rights. We're not trying to harm the company. El milagro claims and ongoing tortilla shortages due to supply chain issues but organizers say the company's lost staff due to their poor treatment of workers including their mishandling of the pandemic last year. Dozens of workers got sick during a covert outbreak. Five died this is another magog or worker. My team solace in cool changed up occupy peck tortilla packages. Per minute. i load a case. Put it on a pallet and come right back. Because if i don't keep up this pace tortillas will fall off the machine and they'll blame me. Workers have given el milagro management until end of day wednesday to respond to their demands. The company was founded in chicago in one thousand nine hundred fifty by raul lopez. A mexican immigrant cells tortillas around the country for more we go to chicago to speak with horrid mujica strategic campaigns organizer at arise chicago. Or you've been working closely with the workers for several years. Can you talk about what the demands are. And what will happen on wednesday. Yes thank you very much. Good morning On wednesday nothing yet because we gave or the workers gave the company a deadline to the end of the day but on thursdays surely workers are going to come back and demand answers from the company. Their main demands are a fair wages kale because the company's paying only forty cents above minimum wage on at the same time advertising new jobs for sixteen dollars so sixty cents bowl people who have been working there for ten fifteen twenty and twenty years. That's the most important that man they say. The allegra needs to track me workers and that is going to happen if they increase wages and the other one is definitely to reduce the speed of the machines. Workers are telling us. Is that the company instead of offering better wages. I'm hiring more. People is just cranking up the machines so they have to pack eighty packages per minute. I mean less than one second to pac twelve thirteen years. Gluing paper envelope on the in the in the boxes. So that's insane. They say okay. They increase the speed of the machines. But they can't increase hours meet. We are not machines so they want to put a stop on that it. Could you talk for people who are not familiar with milagro the importance of this this facility and the plants that it has in the in the mexican american community of milagro tortillas are famous throughout chicago in the mid west and the fact that it's largely a mexican ownership as well. Yes they are the most famous and largest maker in the mid west. They've you go by one of the plants. They have five plants and three restaurants. If you go to one of the plans are four o'clock in the morning you would see. Trucks lining up from ohio from iowa from wisconsin wisconsin michigan. I mean this is Amazing millions of tortillas every day. They're incredibly famous. They are good and they are good. Because it workers really you know Put their best there for two to produce this thirty s and this is family owned just one family controls the whole consortium and they are steal the with practices belonging the nineteen seventies under the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. They they only by call new machines every year but conditions are really awful. This is a sweatshop and last year over eighty of the employees. Came down with colbert and five die. What kind of health and safety a protocols were they using their non at all and We have all pretty much criminal behaviors. There where they forbade workers to wear face masks. They told them that. No the you know. The workforce was going to feel unstable. If they saw anybody wearing face masks. So they'd they'd be metal. Al anyone to do it for a while. On -til of course off diseases spread and people started dying and then they shut down one of the five plants to clean it out but as we're told the workers last year the machines sneeze. This is people to people. Person to person contagion solo. The workers got up together and impose know some basic precautions and then down the line there. The company decided to to respect social these units era. But this is crowded. Space designed for production is not designed as any other productions space is not designed to take care of people's health is designed to produce merchandise and getting money can you what about the sexual harassment allegations as well. Sorry yes. there are several sexual harassment. Acusations workers complained that they have denounced the to management and what management does is to move the supervisor from one plan to the next one instead of solving the problems that have training their supervisor instead of raising really would've standards and where he can you talk about what happened to the workers after they Had their rally last week. We just played air to matt gonzalez Chuck being pregnant and being locked out of punch couldn't get her medication. What the plans are for tomorrow for wednesday. We had called the police and the police came an open of the planning to allow workers to to get their personal belongings and the next day we went with it. Workers through report to a human resources and human resources simply gave off saying we will pay you for the hours. You're lost yesterday. The lockout saw it was a round victory for workers. The workers are demanding. Now is the plant. The management to sit down with the management just hired a union boston to go and talk to them about how bad unions are workers. Say he's talking about unions. We're talking about decency. We are talking about wages. We are talking. About the heat. In the workplace they work at ninety five degrees including their mealtime knowing the launch room. Ninety five degrees. That's what we want to talk about.
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"What nobody wanted by. Geoffrey lewis voltage. This is democracy. Now i mean good with one gonzales. We end today's show in chicago. Where workers at on the law growth tortilla plant station temporary walkout to protest low pay staff shortages and abusive working conditions including intimidation and sexual harassment. When they return to work discovered management had locked them out in retaliation. This is el milagro worker. Ama- gonzales they didn't let go back to work. We had our personal belongings inside the plan. In my case i'm pregnant. My medicine was still inside and they denied us entry. This is not fair. we're simply fighting for our rights. We're not trying to harm the company. El milagro claims and ongoing tortilla shortages due to supply chain issues but organizers say the company's lost staff due to their poor treatment of workers including their mishandling of the pandemic last year. Dozens of workers got sick during a covert outbreak. Five died this is another magog or worker. My team solace in cool changed up occupy peck tortilla packages. Per minute. i load a case. Put it on a pallet and come right back. Because if i don't keep up this pace tortillas will fall off the machine and they'll blame me. Workers have given el milagro management until end of day wednesday to respond to their demands. The company was founded in chicago in one thousand nine hundred fifty by raul lopez mexican immigrant cells tortillas around the country for more. We go to chicago to speak with horrid mujica strategic campaigns organizer at arise chicago. Or you've been working closely with the workers for several years. Can you talk about what the demands are. And what will happen on wednesday. Yes thank you very much. Good morning on wednesday. Nothing yet because we gave or the workers gave the company a deadline to the end of the day but on thursdays surely workers are going to come back and demand answers from the company. Their main demands are a fair wages kale because the company's paying only forty cents above minimum wage and at the same time advertising new jobs for sixteen dollars so sixty cents a bowl people who have been working there for ten fifteen twenty and twenty years. That's the most important that man they say. The allegra needs to track me workers and that is going to happen if they increase wages and the other one is definitely to reduce the speed of the machines where workers are telling us. Is that the company instead of offering better wages. I'm hiring more. People is just cranking up the machines so they have to pack eighty packages per minute. I mean less than one second to pac twelve thirteen years. Gluing paper envelope on the in the in the boxes. So that's insane. They say okay. They increase the speed of the machines. But they can't increase hours meet. We are not machines so they want to put a stop on that. Could you talk for people who are not familiar with milagro the importance of this this facility and the plants that it has in the in the mexican american community of milagro tortillas are famous throughout chicago in the mid west and the fact that it's largely a mexican ownership as well. Yes they are the most famous and largest maker in the mid west. They've you go by one of the plans. They they have five plants and three restaurants. If you go to one of the plans are four o'clock in the morning you would see. Trucks lining up from ohio from iowa from wisconsin wisconsin michigan. I mean this is Amazing millions of tortillas every day. They're incredibly famous. They are good and they are good. Because it workers really you know Put their best there for two to produce this thirty s and this is family owned family controls. The whole consortium and they are steal the with practices belonging the nineteen seventies under the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. They they only by call new machines every year but conditions are really awful. This is a sweatshop and last year over eighty of the employees. Came down with colbert and five die. What kind of health and safety a protocols were they using their non at all and We have all pretty much criminal behaviors. There where they forbade workers to wear face masks. They told them that. No the you know. The workforce was going to feel on stable. If they saw anybody wearing face masks so they'd they'd be metal. Al anyone to do it for a while. On -til of course off diseases spread and people started dying and then they shut down one of the five plants to clean it out but as we're told the workers last year the machines sneeze. This is people to people. Person to person contagion solo. The workers got up together and impose know some basic precautions and then down the line there. The company decided to to respect social these units era. But this is crowded. Space designed for production is not designed as any other productions space is not designed to take care of people's health is designed to produce merchandise and getting money can you what about the sexual harassment allegations as well. Sorry yes. there are several sexual harassment. Accusations workers complained that they have denounced the to management and what management does is to move the supervisor from one plan to the next one instead of solving the problems that have training their supervisor instead of raising really would've standards and where he can you talk about what happened to the workers after they Had their rally last week. We just played air to gonzalez Chuck being pregnant and being locked out of punch couldn't get her medication. What the plans are for tomorrow for wednesday. We had called the police and the police came an open of the planning to allow workers to to get their personal belongings and the next day we went with it. Workers through report to a human resources and human resources simply gave off saying we will pay you for the hours. You're lost yesterday. The lockout saw it was a round victory for workers. The workers are demanding. Now is the plant. The management to sit down with the management just hired a union boston to go and talk to them about how bad unions are workers. Say he's talking about unions. We're talking about decency. We are talking about wages. We are talking about the heat. In the workplace they work at ninety five degrees including their mealtime launch room. Ninety five degrees. That's what we want to talk about.
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"What nobody wanted by. Geoffrey lewis voltage. This is democracy. Now i mean good with one gonzales. We end today's show in chicago. Where workers at on the law growth tortilla plant station temporary walkout to protest low pay staff shortages and abusive working conditions including intimidation and sexual harassment. When they return to work discovered management had locked them out in retaliation. This is el milagro worker. Ama- gonzales they didn't let go back to work. We had our personal belongings inside the plan. In my case i'm pregnant. My medicine was still inside and they denied us entry. This is not fair. we're simply fighting for our rights. We're not trying to harm the company. El milagro claims and ongoing tortilla shortages due to supply chain issues but organizers say the company's lost staff due to their poor treatment of workers including their mishandling of the pandemic last year. Dozens of workers got sick during a covert outbreak. Five died this is another magog or worker. My team solace in cool changed up occupy peck tortilla packages per minute case. Put it on a pallet and come right back. Because if i don't keep up this pace tortillas will fall off the machine and they'll blame me. Workers have given el milagro management until end of day wednesday to respond to their demands. The company was founded in chicago in one thousand nine hundred fifty by raul lopez mexican immigrant cells tortillas around the country for more. We go to chicago to speak with horrid mujica strategic campaigns organizer at arise chicago. Or you've been working closely with the workers for several years. Can you talk about what the demands are. And what will happen on wednesday. Yes thank you very much. Good morning On wednesday nothing yet because we gave or the workers gave the company a deadline to the end of the day but on thursdays surely workers are going to come back and demand answers from the company. Their main demands are a fair wages kale because the company's paying only forty cents above minimum wage on at the same time advertising new jobs for sixteen dollars so sixty cents above people who have been working there for ten fifteen twenty and twenty years. That's the most important that man they say. The allegra needs to track me workers and that is going to happen if they increase wages and the other one is definitely to reduce the speed of the machines where workers are telling us. Is that the company instead of offering better wages. I'm hiring more. People is just cranking up the machines so they have to pack eighty packages per minute. I mean less than one second to pac twelve thirteen years. Gluing paper envelope on the in the in the boxes. So that's insane. They say okay. They increase the speed of the machines. But they can't increase hours meet. We are not machines so they want to put a stop on that it. Could you talk for people who are not familiar with milagro the importance of this this facility and the plants that it has in the in the mexican american community of milagro tortillas are famous throughout chicago in the mid west and the fact that it's largely a mexican ownership as well. Yes they are the most famous and largest maker in the mid west. They've you go by one of the plans. They they have five plants and three restaurants. If you go to one of the plans are four o'clock in the morning you would see. Trucks lining up from ohio from iowa from wisconsin wisconsin michigan. I mean this is Amazing millions of tortillas every day. They're incredibly famous. They are good and they are good. Because it workers really you know Put their best there for two to produce this thirty s and this is family owned just one family controls the whole consortium and they are steal the with practices belonging the nineteen seventies under the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. They they only by call new machines every year but conditions are really awful. This is a sweatshop and last year over eighty of the employees. Came down with colbert and five die. What kind of health and safety a protocols were they using their non at all and We have all pretty much criminal behaviors. There where they forbade workers to wear face masks. They told them that. No the you know. The workforce was going to feel unstable. If they saw anybody wearing face masks. So they'd they'd be metal. Al anyone to do it for a while. On -til of course off diseases spread and people started dying and then they shut down one of the five plants to clean it out but as we're told the workers last year you know the the the machines sneeze. This is people to people person to person. Contagion solo the workers got up together and impose you know some basic precautions and then down the line there. The company decided to to respect social these units era. But this is crowded. Space designed for production is not designed as any other productions space is not designed to take care of people's health is designed to produce merchandise and getting money can you what about the sexual harassment allegations as well. Sorry yes. there are several sexual harassment. Accusations workers complained that they have denounced the to management and what management does is to move the supervisor from one plan to the next one instead of solving the problems that have training their supervisor instead of raising really would've standards and where he can you talk about what happened to the workers after they Had their rally last week. We just played air to matt gonzalez Chuck being pregnant and being locked out of punch couldn't get her medication. What the plans are for tomorrow for wednesday. We had called the police and the police came an open of the planning to allow workers to to get their personal belongings and the next day we went with it. Workers through report to a human resources and human resources simply gave off saying we will pay you for the hours. You're lost yesterday. The lockout saw it was a round victory for workers. The workers are demanding. Now is the plant. The management to sit down with the management just hired a union boston to go and talk to them about how bad unions are workers. Say he's talking about unions. We're talking about decency. We are talking about wages. We are talking. About the heat. In the workplace they work at ninety five degrees including their mealtime knowing the launch room. Ninety five degrees. That's what we want to talk about.
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"What nobody wanted by geoffrey. Lewis voltage this is democracy. Now i mean good with one gonzales. We end today's show in chicago. Where workers at on the law growth tortilla plant station temporary walkout to protest low pay staff shortages and abusive working conditions including intimidation and sexual harassment. When they return to work discovered management had locked them out in retaliation. This is el milagro worker. Ama- gonzales they didn't let go back to work. We had our personal belongings inside the plan. In my case i'm pregnant. My medicine was still inside and they denied us entry. This is not fair. we're simply fighting for our rights. We're not trying to harm the company. El milagro claims and ongoing tortilla shortages due to supply chain issues but organizers say the company's lost staff due to their poor treatment of workers including their mishandling of the pandemic last year. Dozens of workers got sick during a covert outbreak. Five died this is another magog or worker. My team salis in cool changed up occupy peck tortilla packages. Per minute. i load a case. Put it on a pallet and come right back. Because if i don't keep up this pace tortillas will fall off the machine and they'll blame me. Workers have given el milagro management until end of day wednesday to respond to their demands. The company was founded in chicago in one thousand nine hundred fifty by raul lopez mexican immigrant cells tortillas around the country for more. We go to chicago to speak with horrid mujica strategic campaigns organizer at arise chicago. Or you've been working closely with the workers for several years. Can you talk about what the demands are. And what will happen on wednesday. Yes thank you very much. Good morning on wednesday. Nothing yet because we gave or the workers gave the company a deadline to the end of the day but on thursdays surely workers are going to come back and demand answers from the company. Their main demands are a fair wages kale because the company's paying only forty cents above minimum wage on at the same time advertising new jobs for sixteen dollars so sixty cents above people who have been working there for ten fifteen twenty and twenty years. That's the most important that man they say. The allegra needs to track me workers and that is going to happen if they increase wages and the other one is definitely to reduce the speed of the machines. Workers are telling us. Is that the company instead of offering better wages. I'm hiring more. People is just cranking up the machines so they have to pack eighty packages per minute. I mean less than one second to pac twelve thirteen years. Gluing paper envelope on the in the in the boxes. So that's insane. They say okay. They increase the speed of the machines. But they can't increase hours meet. We are not machines so they want to put a stop on that it. Could you talk for people who are not familiar with milagro the importance of this this facility and the plants that it has in the in the mexican american community of milagro tortillas are famous throughout chicago in the mid west and the fact that it's largely a mexican ownership as well. Yes they are the most famous and largest maker in the mid west. They've you go by one of the plans. They they have five plants and three restaurants. If you go to one of the plans are four o'clock in the morning you would see. Trucks lining up from ohio from iowa from wisconsin wisconsin michigan. I mean this is Amazing millions of tortillas every day. They are incredibly famous. They are good and they are good. Because it workers really you know Put their best there for two to produce this thirty s and this is family owned just one family controls the whole consortium and they are steal the with practices belonging the nineteen seventies under the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. They they only by call new machines every year but conditions are really awful. This is a sweatshop and last year over eighty of the employees. Came down with colbert and five die. What kind of health and safety a protocols were they using their non at all and We have all pretty much criminal behaviors. There where they forbade workers to wear face masks. They told them that. No the you know. The workforce was going to feel unstable if they saw anybody wearing face masks so they they didn't allow anyone to do it for a while on -til of course off diseases spread and people started dying and then they shut down one of the five plants to clean it out but as we're told the workers last year you know the the machines sneeze. This is people to people. Person to person contagion solo. The workers got up together and impose you know some basic precautions and then down the line there. The company decided to to respect social these units era. But this is crowded. Space designed for production is not designed as any other productions space is not designed to take care of people's health is designed to produce merchandise and getting money can you what about the sexual harassment allegations as well. Sorry yes. there are several sexual harassment. Accusations workers complained that they have denounced the to management and what management does is to move the supervisor from one plan to the next one instead of solving the problems that have training their supervisor instead of raising really would've standards and where he can you talk about what happened to the workers after they Had their rally last week. We just played air to matt gonzalez Chuck being pregnant and being locked out of punch couldn't get her medication. What the plans are for tomorrow for wednesday. Yeah well we had called the police and the police came an open of the planning to allow workers to to get their personal belongings and the next day we went with it. Workers through report to a human resources and human resources simply gave off saying we will pay you for the hours. You're lost yesterday. The lockout saw it was a round victory for workers. The workers are demanding. Now is the plant. The management to sit down with the management just hired a union boston to go and talk to them about how bad unions are workers. Say he's talking about unions. We're talking about decency. We are talking about wages. We are talking. About the heat. In the workplace they work at ninety five degrees including their mealtime knowing the launch room. Ninety five degrees. That's what we want to talk about.
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"What nobody wanted by. Geoffrey lewis voltage. This is democracy. Now i mean good with one gonzales. We end today's show in chicago. Where workers at on the law growth tortilla plant station temporary walkout to protest low pay staff shortages and abusive working conditions including intimidation and sexual harassment. When they return to work discovered management had locked them out in retaliation. This is el milagro worker. Ama- gonzales they didn't let go back to work. We had our personal belongings inside the plan. In my case i'm pregnant. My medicine was still inside and they denied us entry. This is not fair. we're simply fighting for our rights. We're not trying to harm the company. L. milagro claims and ongoing tortilla shortages due to supply chain issues but organizers say the company's lost staff due to their poor treatment of workers including their mishandling of the pandemic last year. Dozens of workers got sick during a covert outbreak. Five died this is another magog or worker. My team solace in cool changed up occupy peck tortilla packages. Per minute. i load a case. Put it on a pallet and come right back. Because if i don't keep up this pace tortillas will fall off the machine and they'll blame me. Workers have given el milagro management until end of day wednesday to respond to their demands. The company was founded in chicago in one thousand nine hundred fifty by raul lopez mexican immigrant cells tortillas around the country for more. We go to chicago to speak with horrid mujica strategic campaigns organizer at arise chicago. Or you've been working closely with the workers for several years. Can you talk about what the demands are. And what will happen on wednesday. Yes thank you very much. Good morning on wednesday. Nothing yet because we gave or the workers gave the company a deadline to the end of the day but on thursdays surely workers are going to come back and demand answers from the company. Their main demands are a fair wages kale because the company's paying only forty cents above minimum wage and at the same time advertising new jobs for sixteen dollars so sixty cents a bowl people who have been working there for ten fifteen twenty and twenty years. That's the most important that man they say. The allegra needs to track me workers and that is going to happen if they increase wages and the other one is definitely to reduce the speed of the machines where workers are telling us. Is that the company instead of offering better wages. I'm hiring more. People is just cranking up the machines so they have to pack eighty packages per minute. I mean less than one second to pac twelve thirteen years. Gluing paper envelope on the in the in the boxes. So that's insane. They say okay. They increase the speed of the machines. But they can't increase hours meet. We are not machines so they want to put a stop on that it. Could you talk for people who are not familiar with milagro the importance of this this facility and the plants that it has in the in the mexican american community of milagro tortillas are famous throughout chicago in the mid west and the fact that it's largely a mexican ownership as well. Yes they are the most famous and largest maker in the mid west. They've you go by one of the plans. They they have five plants and three restaurants. If you go to one of the plans are four o'clock in the morning you would see. Trucks lining up from ohio from iowa from wisconsin wisconsin michigan. I mean this is Amazing millions of tortillas every day. They're incredibly famous. They are good and they are good because it workers who really you know Put their best there for two to produce this thirty s and this is family owned just one family controls the whole consortium and they are steal the with practices belonging the nineteen seventies under the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. They they only by call new machines every year but conditions are really awful. This is a sweatshop and last year over eighty of the employees. Came down with colbert and five die. What kind of health and safety a protocols were they using their non at all and We have all pretty much criminal behaviors. There where they forbade workers to wear face masks. They told them that. No the you know. The workforce was going to feel unstable. If they saw anybody wearing face masks. So they'd they'd be metal. Al anyone to do it for a while. On -til of course off diseases spread and people started dying and then they shut down one of the five plants to clean it out but as we're told the workers last year the machines sneeze. This is people to people. Person to person contagion solo. The workers got up together and impose know some basic precautions and then down the line there. The company decided to to respect social these units era. But this is crowded. Space designed for production is not designed as any other productions space is not designed to take care of people's health is designed to produce merchandise and getting money can you what about the sexual harassment allegations as well. Sorry yes. there are several sexual harassment. Accusations workers complained that they have denounced the to management and what management does is to move the supervisor from one plan to the next one instead of solving the problems that have training their supervisor instead of raising really standards and where he can you talk about what happened to the workers after they Had their rally last week. We just played air gonzalez Chuck being pregnant and being locked out of punch couldn't get her medication. What the plans are for tomorrow for wednesday. We had called the police and the police came an open of the planning to allow workers to to get their personal belongings and the next day we went with it. Workers through report to a human resources and human resources simply gave off saying we will pay you for the hours. You're lost yesterday. The lockout saw it was a round victory for workers. The workers are demanding. Now is the plant. The management to sit down with the management just hired a union boston to go and talk to them about how bad unions are workers. Say he's talking about unions. We're talking about decency. We are talking about wages. We are talking. About the heat. In the workplace they work at ninety five degrees including their mealtime knowing the launch room. Ninety five degrees. That's what we want to talk about.
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"What nobody wanted by. Geoffrey lewis the voltage. this is democracy. Now i mean good with one gonzales. We end today's show in chicago. Where workers at on the law growth tortilla plant station temporary walkout to protest low pay staff shortages and abusive working conditions including intimidation and sexual harassment. When they return to work discovered management had locked them out in retaliation. This is el milagro worker. Ama- gonzales they didn't let go back to work. We had our personal belongings inside the plan. In my case i'm pregnant. My medicine was still inside and they denied us entry. This is not fair. we're simply fighting for our rights. We're not trying to harm the company. Elm allegro claims and ongoing tortilla shortages due to supply chain issues but organizers say the company's lost staff due to their poor treatment of workers including their mishandling of the pandemic last year. Dozens of workers got sick during a covert outbreak. Five died this is another magog or worker. My team solace in cool changed up occupy peck tortilla packages. Per minute. i load a case. Put it on a pallet and come right back. Because if i don't keep up this pace tortillas will fall off the machine and they'll blame me. Workers have given el milagro management until end of day wednesday to respond to their demands. The company was founded in chicago in one thousand nine hundred fifty by raul lopez mexican immigrant cells tortillas around the country for more. We go to chicago to speak with horrid mujica strategic campaigns organizer at arise chicago. Or you've been working closely with the workers for several years. Can you talk about what the demands are. And what will happen on wednesday. Yes thank you very much. Good morning on wednesday. Nothing yet because we gave or the workers gave the company a deadline to the end of the day but on thursdays surely workers are going to come back and demand answers from the company. Their main demands are a fair wages kale because the company's paying only forty cents above minimum wage on at the same time advertising new jobs for sixteen dollars so sixty cents a bowl of people who have been working there for ten fifteen twenty and twenty years. That's the most important that man they say. The allegra needs to track me workers and that is going to happen if they increase wages and the other one is definitely to reduce the speed of the machines. Workers are telling us. Is that the company instead of offering better wages. I'm hiring more. People is just cranking up the machines so they have to pack eighty packages per minute. I mean less than one second to pac twelve thirteen years. Gluing paper envelope on the in the in the boxes. So that's insane. They say okay. They increase the speed of the machines. But they can't increase hours meet. We are not machines so they want to put a stop on that. Could you talk for people who are not familiar with milagro the importance of this this facility and the plants that it has in the in the mexican american community of milagro tortillas are famous throughout chicago in the mid west and the fact that it's largely a mexican ownership as well. Yes they are the most famous and largest maker in the mid west. They've you go by one of the plants. They have five plants and three restaurants. If you go to one of the plans are four o'clock in the morning you would see. Trucks lining up from ohio from iowa from wisconsin wisconsin michigan. I mean this is Amazing millions of tortillas every day. They're incredibly famous. They are good and they are good because it workers who really you know Put their best there for two to produce this thirty s and this is family owned just one family controls the whole consortium and they are steal the with practices belonging the nineteen seventies under the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. They they only by call new machines every year but conditions are really awful. This is a sweatshop and last year over eighty of the employees. Came down with colbert and five die. What kind of health and safety a protocols were they using their non at all and We have all pretty much criminal behaviors. There where they forbade workers to wear face masks. They told them that. No the you know. The workforce was going to feel unstable. If they saw anybody wearing face masks. So they'd they'd be metal. Al anyone to do it for a while on -til of course our diseases spread and people started dying and then they shut down one of the five plants to clean it out. But as we're told the workers last year the machines sneeze. This is people to people. Person to person contagion solo. The workers got up together and impose know some basic precautions and then down the line there. The company decided to to respect social these units era. But this is crowded. Space designed for production is not designed as any other productions space is not designed to take care of people's health is designed to produce merchandise and getting money can you what about the sexual harassment allegations as well. Sorry yes. there are several sexual harassment. Accusations workers complained that they have denounced the to management and what management does is to move the supervisor from one plan to the next one instead of solving the problems that have training their supervisor instead of raising really would've standards and where he can you talk about what happened to the workers after they Had their rally last week. We just played air gonzalez Chuck being pregnant and being locked out of punch couldn't get her medication. What the plans are for tomorrow for wednesday. Yeah well we had called the police and the police came an open of the planning to allow workers to to get their personal belongings and the next day we went with it. Workers through report to a human resources and human resources simply gave off saying we will pay you for the hours. You're lost yesterday. The lockout saw it was a round victory for workers. The workers are demanding. Now is the plant management to sit down with the management. Just hired a union. Boston to go and talk to them about how bad unions are workers. Say he's talking about unions. We're talking about decency. We are talking about wages. We are talking about the heat. In the workplace they work at ninety five degrees including their mealtime. The launch room. Ninety five degrees. That's what we want to talk about.
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"We end today's show in chicago. Where workers at on the law growth tortilla plant station temporary walkout to protest low pay staff shortages and abusive working conditions including intimidation and sexual harassment. When they return to work discovered management had locked them out in retaliation. This is el milagro worker. Ama- gonzales they didn't let go back to work. We had our personal belongings inside the plan. In my case i'm pregnant. My medicine was still inside and they denied us entry. This is not fair. we're simply fighting for our rights. We're not trying to harm the company. El milagro claims and ongoing tortilla shortages due to supply chain issues but organizers say the company's lost staff due to their poor treatment of workers including their mishandling of the pandemic last year. Dozens of workers got sick during a covert outbreak. Five died this is another magog or worker. My team solace in cool changed up occupy peck tortilla packages per minute case. Put it on a pallet and come right back. Because if i don't keep up this pace tortillas will fall off the machine and they'll blame me. Workers have given el milagro management until end of day wednesday to respond to their demands. The company was founded in chicago in one thousand nine hundred fifty by raul lopez mexican immigrant cells tortillas around the country for more. We go to chicago to speak with horrid mujica strategic campaigns organizer at arise chicago..
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"From new york that is democracy now. Today's verdict in to robert kelly's decade green girls boys and young women aren b. singer. R kelly is found. Guilty of being sexual predator trafficker after nearly a dozen survivors testified about his abuse of dozens of black women and underage girls for nearly two decades. We'll speak with dream. Hampton executive producer of the documentary series. Surviving are killing. That i help. Give a platform to kelly's accusers. Then we go inside. The cia secret plans to kill or kidnap. Julian assange early months. Twenty seventeen the mounted a seek with all of your looking leaks. Included plans to snatch duct the group's founder. Julian assange to discord among his associates to monitor their communications and to steal electronic devices there were also discussions inside the cia about possibly even assassinating and we go to chicago. Where workers at el milagro tortilla plant staged a temporary walkout to protest low pay and abusive working conditions demanding. Our rights as employees have been just as they have rights as employers we to have rights workers. What chan. I packed beat to a tier packages permit. I load a case. Put it on a pallet and come right back. Because if i don't keep up this pace to tears.
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