butterbean
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 Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 10:13 am Post subject: Suit claiming Tyson hired illegals will go to trial |
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - A lawsuit that contends Tyson Foods depressed wages by hiring illegal immigrants and should pay damages to legal workers will go to trial in March 2008, a judge said Monday in a conference with attorneys.
The lawsuit contends that Tyson hired illegal immigrants at eight plants since April 1998.
U.S. District Judge Curtis L. Collier set the March 3, 2008, trial date after agreeing to allow an attorney for the world's largest meat company time to file a motion challenging the makeup of the class of plaintiffs before the court involves a mediator to attempt reaching a settlement.
"My client is not inclined to participate in anything that would lead to a settlement," said Tyson's lead attorney, Tom Green of Washington, D.C. Green said the legal fight is "about costing Tyson millions of dollars to be in a case we believe we ought not to be in."
The lead attorney for the plaintiffs, Howard W. Foster of Chicago, said he believes the total number of legal workers in the class ranges from 50,000 to 100,000. He has asked the court to force Tyson Foods to provide him a listing of all Tyson employees and their Social Security numbers, to be compared with Social Security records.
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http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070130/BIZ/701300320/1076/BIZ |
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