Restaurant workers fired after May Day protest
Submitted on Fri, 05/05/2006 - 4:20pm
A group of Tracy restaurant workers were fired this week after they failed to show up for work to protest against tougher immigration laws.
Fernando Martinez, a kitchen supervisor at Chevy’s Fresh Mex restaurant near West Valley Mall, said four others at the popular Mexican restaurant also have left their jobs after eight of their co-workers were dismissed.
“No one’s going to stay knowing that the whole team got fired,” he said.
Martinez, who said he was still employed at Chevy’s as of Wednesday, spoke on behalf of his co-workers, who risked their jobs when they went to Stockton on Monday to protest proposed changes in national immigration law.
The people who were fired, including cooks — prep cooks and dishwashers — said through an interpreter that they are all legal residents and had asked for the day off so they could join the protest in Stockton that drew an estimated 10,000 people.
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