The Department of Labor is investigating the owner of the food truck business following reports of claims that workers are forced to work long hours for low pay.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — This week, ABC24 learned the Department of Labor is investigating the owner of TacoNGanas food truck chain for possibly violating labor laws.
Now local activists are rallying behind the workers who may have been affected.
For confidentiality reasons, the identities of the workers are protected, but one activist we spoke to is working with them to make sure they can safely speak up about what happened.
“They’re afraid to speak up, and that’s one of the things that I’m trying to break,” says Jose Salazar, Immigrant Rights Activist.
Lured from Mexico, only to work long hours with low pay are the allegations against TacosNGanas as the Department of Labor investigates the food truck chain, whose owner also owns Uncle Goyo’s restaurant in Germantown.
“A lot of these people are new to the country, so they don’t know the laws, and they’re afraid. I’ve had people, even from Mexico, contact me and there’s a lot of fear in these families,” says Salazar.
Salazar is one of many rushing to help the alleged victims involved in the case, in a time when there’s concern about how they got to Memphis, and if they have the proper visas.
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