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Workers at Off Broadway Car Wash in Elmhurst form a picket line around an inflatable rat during a Jan. 30 walkout.
Tensions are foaming over at an Elmhurst car wash where unionized workers were still absent on Monday, four days after they staged their latest walkout.
“We want to work,” one of the “carwasheros,” Orlando Hernandez, 40, said through an interpreter. “The majority of us are surviving on what we have saved up, but that’s not very much and it’s not going to last very long.”
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Hernandez was one of 16 employees at Off Broadway Car Wash who filed a formal complaint against the owner, David Amar, alleging that he stopped paying them regularly, cut their hours and failed to show up for collective bargaining negotiations.
The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union filmed Amar kicking snow and making an obscene gesture at the jeering workers and organizers on Thursday.
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Stephen Hans, a lawyer for the owner, didn’t respond to requests for comment.
“We have an obligation to negotiate and bargain, and we’re going to do that,” Hans said last week.
The National Labor Relations Board is investigating the workers’ claims of retaliation for their decision to unionize.
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