New York Times
August 31st, 2014
Week after week, Guadalupe Rangel worked seven days straight, sometimes
11 hours a day, unloading dining room sets, trampolines, television
stands and other imports from Asia that would soon be shipped to Walmart
stores.
Even though he often clocked 70 hours a week at the Schneider warehouse
here, he was never paid time-and-a-half overtime, he said. And now,
having joined a lawsuit involving hundreds of warehouse workers, Mr.
Rangel stands to receive more than $20,000 in back pay as part of a
recent $21 million legal settlement with Schneider, a national trucking
company.
“Sometimes I’d work 60, even 90 days in a row,” said Mr. Rangel, a
soft-spoken immigrant from Mexico. “They never paid overtime.”
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