The complaint comes after employees at El Milagro, along with workers’ center Arise Chicago, filed charges alleging labor law violations with the NLRB.
Many of the instances described in the complaint allegedly occurred in September and October of 2021, around the time when workers at two of the company’s production facilitiesThe complaint alleges, for instance, that El Milagro beefed up its security presence at tortilla-making facilities in September and October of that year in response to organizing by workers.
“El Milagro maintains high ethical standards, values employees and respects their rights in the workplace,” the statement read. In a statement, Arise Executive Director the Rev. C.J. Hawking said the workers’ center believed “El Milagro will have to answer for what we believe are clear legal violations of their workers’ rights.”El Milagro has previously been the subject of complaints filed with the state’s labor department.
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