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Workers Say They Were Fired For Marching In Immigration Protest
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Six employees of a Houston-area chain seafood restaurant fired for participating in an immigration march prompted a protest Friday, KPRC Local 2 reported.
Mexicans In Action and several other Houston-area civil and human rights organizations are demanding justice for the six workers' former employer, Mambo Seafood, which they said fired five servers and a bartender because they took off work to participate in Monday's March of Dignity, where thousands of Houstonians rallied against U.S. House Bill 4437, which would make illegal immigrants felons.
A handful of protesters rallied outside the Mambo Seafood restaurant in the 6800 block of Harrisburg Boulevard in southeast Houston on Friday morning and are expected to be there throughout the day. Another rally is planned at the same location on Saturday.
Organizers of Friday's protest said the employees were arbitrarily dismissed and alleged that the restaurant chain released a false news release clarifying its reasons for the workers' dismissals.
"We want these employees to get their jobs back without conditions, without threats," demonstrator Cristobal Hinojosa said.
Officials with the restaurant's corporate office said the employees were not fired for participating in the march, but were instead dismissed from their job because they failed to give their supervisors adequate notice of their plans not to show up for work on Monday.
Restaurant officials said when the employees did not show up, leaving busboys and kitchen workers to run the eatery during the busiest hours of its lunch business.
Employees said their general manager offered to re-hire them if they would deny the charges they made against the company and stop talking with the media about being fired.
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