Credit: (Laundry Workers Center)
The days at the laundromat in Edison were long and busy for Gaudencia Ramirez.
During an eight-hour shift, Ramirez said she would wash about 200 pounds of laundry, clean bathrooms, sweep floors and attend to the needs of customers. When she picked up an overnight shift with no overtime pay, Ramirez sometimes had to contend with unruly customers who were drunk and belligerent.
When Ramirez, who emigrated from Mexico 29 years ago, lost her job two years ago, she said she was not given notice or a severance package after 11 years at the same laundromat.
“It hurt me, and I feel bad, because I just don’t think it was fair,‘’ said Ramirez, who now works at another laundromat. “As immigrants, we feel like we can’t say anything, and we just swallow the anger.”
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Hudson County View
Bayonne Fire Engine 6. Screenshot via YouTube.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
The NJDOL further investigated Three Sons Restoration LLC after finding wage violations at two of the contractor’s job sites in August 2019 – Maurice Hawk Elementary School in West Windsor and Bayonne Fire House, Engine 6 in Bayonne – both of which resulted in stop-work orders.
These stop-work orders were the first such actions taken by the NJDOL following Gov. Phil Murphy’s (D) expansion of the department’s enforcement authorities in July 2019.
The NJDOL’s Division of Wage and Hour Compliance subsequently found that, at four additional worksites located in Jersey City, Oakland, and Newark, Three Sons Restoration failed to pay appropriate prevailing wages to its employees, and, in some cases, did not compensate them at all.