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March 23, 2017

NYC Bakery Faces Protests After Company Threatens to Fire Dozens of Immigrant Workers
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Workers and their allies rallied outside the Tom Cat Bakery in New York
City Wednesday to protest a threat by the company to fire dozens of
immigrant workers. Managers at the bakery say the Department of Homeland
Security ordered an I-9 audit of employees' immigration status. But some
employees question whether managers initiated the demand for immigration
papers independently.

Worker: "Last week, I was called into the office, and I was only given
10 days' notice to submit my working papers. We're fighting for our
rights. We have demands. They have given us only until the 28th of this
month. After that, we're fired. After hearing that news, we were
devastated, because we've given so many years of our lives to the rise
of this company."

The workers were joined by New York City Councilmember Mark Levine, who
said Tom Cat Bakery should offer its employees a work-visa sponsorship
to allow them to remain at the company.


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