Claire Lavezzorio is a reporter at KMGH Denver7 in Denver, Colorado.
GREELEY , Colo. — Union members at the JBS Foods meatpacking plant in Greeley said hundreds of Haitian immigrants were lured to work at the plant on false promises.' 'You can come here. You are going to have a very good job. And you don't have to worry about where you're going to sleep because the company is going to take care of that for you,'' alleges plant worker Tchelly Moise.
And once they went to work, the union claims production lines were staffed with half as many people as OSHA requires.'If the allegations are true, civil rights attorney Tyrone Glover said they have criminal, regulatory, and civil implications.'There's allegations of human trafficking here. That could implicate criminal liability. This triggers all sorts of Department of Labor issues stuff through OSHA. This could implicate individual plaintiffs,' said Glover.
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