Three workers earn back pay after Fuyao settlements—while company’s CEO still vocally anti-union.
over $830,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 2017. Fuyao maintains, in a statement to, that it “works closely with OSHA to make sure we abide by the strictest safety standards, and will continue to do so, for the safety of our workers, who are our biggest asset.”meet Lamantia as she takes a job with Fuyao with great relief after she’d been laid off at the GM plant, lost her home and was forced to move into her sister’s basement.
She says she was out of work for six months after she was fired and that it took eight months before she settled her lawsuit. “Once again I was almost back in the basement,” Lamantia says. “I thought, ‘Oh God, I have to give up the apartment.’” She relied on unemployment benefits and odd jobs, like dog walking, before finding work at a Navistar International factory that builds semi-trucks.
Another fired Fuyao worker, Rob Haerr, who very memorably in the film hosts over a dozen of his Chinese colleagues at his home for Thanksgiving dinner—and teaches them to shoot guns—was unemployed for a year before finding work at Harley-Davidson, where he says he makes an hourly wage about half what Fuyao paid.
Besides dealing with financial worries, Haerr received text messages from his supervisor—Austin Cole, also in the film—for more than six months after he was terminated. Haerr showedscreen captures of the texts. “Are you doing the lawyer thing?” Cole asks in one. “What’s new, anything? Suing this place?” he writes in another. Haerr believed that Cole and Fuyao’s higher-ups expected him to sue. Cole did not respond to multiple requests for comment, and Fuyao declined to comment on Haerr’s claims.
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