Houston Company Exploits Vietnamese Workers, Suit Claims
By Richard Connelly in Courts
Thursday, Mar. 12 2009 @ 10:07AM
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Thus it has been in America since...well, since America began. But attorney Tammy Tran is hoping the courts may provide some justice.
In the suit, plaintiff Thang Hong Luu paints a grim picture of working for Coast to Coast Resources (a company we couldn't reach):
Luu claims he relocated to Houston after the company promised him a $120,000 salary over 30 months for work near the Houston Ship Channel. Coast to Coast also promised the workers comfortable living, but housed them in a "rundown, dilapidated two-bedroom apartment" with three other laborers, the plaintiff claims. The employer allegedly deducted $500 a month from their paychecks for rent and $1,200 a month for transportation.The company did not allow its workers to "go anywhere," the suit says.
Luu eventually got fired: "Luu says they returned him early to make room for "a new set of hopeful, unsuspecting laborers from whom a fresh set of fees (and essentially free labor) can be collected under this fraudulent scheme," the suit says.
We're not sure this practice is going to stop anytime soon -- whether the victims are Vietnamese, Central Americans or the Irish escaping the 1847 Famine -- but a lawsuit can't hurt the effort.
We're not sure this practice is going to stop anytime soon -- whether the victims are Vietnamese, Central Americans or the Irish escaping the 1847 Famine -- but a lawsuit can't hurt the effort.
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