Workers at Cooke-owned True North Seafood's plant in New Bedford, Massachusetts, staged a protest Aug. 1 over the treatment of two former employees who claim they were fired in retaliation for raising concerns about sexual harassment in the facility.
The local advocacy organization Centro Comunitario de Trabajadore organized the protest. Earlier this year, the group worked with former employees of New Bedford-based Eastern Fisheries, who claimed they were terminated for speaking up about unfair labor practices.
One woman, a fish cutter at True North, alleges she was fired in retaliation for filing a police report against her male supervisor for sexual harassment, and also reporting it to the company's human resources department, reported The New Bedford Light.
