President Trump paid undocumented Polish workers as little as $4 an hour to demolish department stor

[workinclasszero]

President Trump paid undocumented Polish workers as little as $4 an hour to demolish department store
BY JESSICA CHIA NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, November 28, 2017, 3:32 AM

President Trump employed 200 undocumented Polish workers who were paid as little as $4 an hour to demolish a department store where Trump Tower now stands, according to newly unsealed court documents.

In 1980, Trump enlisted the crew of undocumented immigrants to work back-breaking shifts that lasted upwards of 16 hours a day without gloves, hard hats or masks as they demolished the Bonwit Teller building on Fifth Ave., the New York Times reported.

Despite claims he doesn’t settle lawsuits, Trump paid a $1.375 million settlement in 1998 — after the class-action labor lawsuit dragged on for 15 years, according to the court documents that were unsealed last week after nearly two decades.

The Daily News first reported that the long-lost documents had been found in July after Time Inc. unearthed them in 2016, and filed a motion to unseal them along with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/president-trump-paid-1-375m-settlement-labor-lawsuit-article-1.3661863

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. When reoublican clerk working at Home Depot worker reads this, realizes his or her son

or daughter could have been doing this for MW and earning money, but trump chose to fuck over the American people, what do they tell themselves when they continue to cheer on this criminal fuck who HATES this country?

I WANNA KNOW god dammit!

[PSPS]

2. What trump did to the Bonwit Teller sculptures was disgusting and he did it purposefully.

No wonder New Yorkers (and now the world) despise him.

Also, this Times story: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/realestate/fifth-avenue-bonwit-teller-opulence-lost.html

[Ms. Toad]

3. To put that in context,

In 1978, with my college degree, I was paid $4.80/hour - assuming you believed I worked only 40 hours a week. If you count the actual number of hours I put in as a salaried worker, it was closer to $2.40/hour.

Minimum wage was $3.10/hour in 1980.

So, while I am sympathetic to the long hours and poor working conditions, the hoursly rate doesn't disturb me.

It also disturbs me that he used and continues to use undocumented and international labor, when his public stance is that we should be putting Americans first, and that undocumented immigrants are criminals who should be torn from their families and sent "home."

[JustAnotherGen]

4. We knew

If only the media had been able to get the message out prior to the election. I distinctly remember seeing threads about this at DU prior to the election.