Suit filed on behalf of migrants - Mexican forestry workers in Tennessee underpaid, advocacy group alleges

“Laborers brought from Mexico to plant trees in southern Tennessee have filed a class-action lawsuit against their Arkansas-based employer, claiming they weren’t paid as promised and that they were forced to work overtime without pay.

The lawsuit, filed five weeks ago in federal court in Columbia on behalf of three Mexican laborers, is the latest in a series of lawsuits filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center in the South and Northwest on behalf of migrant workers in the forestry industry, which activists claim is rife with worker abuse.”

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