Rally for Workers' Rights Today

From ULANewHaven Press Release. 

Today at 12 Noon
Gourmet Heaven on Broadway
While students took a break from protesting Gourmet Heaven to celebrate the holiday with their families, the deli on Yale property fired four workers in retaliation for their Department of Labor complaint.

On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 the workers will protest to demand their jobs back and their unpaid wages.

The four men, Misael, Isai, Cristian and Julio worked 7 am to 7 pm, 6 days per week, earning $4.16 to $6.25 per hour for three to eight years.

In July 2013, Misael’s brother filed a complaint with the DOL claiming that he was owed nearly $10,000 in unpaid minimum wage and overtime for eleven months of work. The DOL shut down the deli on August 7 and re-opened it when the owner Chung Cho agreed to turn over accounting books to the government.

At the Intersection of Bicyles and Workers' Rights

On an eventful final Friday of the month of October, the Halloween ride of Critical Mass, a beer-swilling national cyclist movement, convened on the New Haven Green.  Led by Matt Feiner, the man behind The Devils Gear Bike Shop on Orange Street, a crowd emerged wearing costumes of many varieties; such as killer bees, Fred and Wilma Flintstone, and Matt himself as a gorilla.