the transport company Miami’s flagship went bankrupt and left behind a large group of Cuban truckers without receiving their salary.
The company, based in Medley, in Miami-Dade County, had promised to pay off its debt this Tuesday, but when truckers got to the scene, they found the facilities shutting down completely because it had gone bankrupt, according to a report from America .
The Cubans demonstrated outside Flagship Transport’s headquarters at 10800 Northwest 106th Street to demand their partial back payments amount to $25,000.
That agency, which operated more than 450 trucks delivering goods across the country, began delaying wages about a month ago and eventually shut down entirely.
“We have been having issues with all weekly payments for a month. You told us we’ll pay you next week and there are drivers whose checks have bounced,” said one of the drivers involved.
In cases where the company transferred the money directly to its employees, it recovered after a short time, the man said.
When asked about possible victims, the Cubans learned that some dispatchers had not received any money from Flagship for a month and owed the insurance company $47,000.
“It was a premeditated thing. They sent us all the same message that they would give us the check today, but here we all are. They closed the company last Monday night,” he added.
The drivers compiled a list of about 74 people who were owed at least $4,000 to $7,000, another employee said, noting that the company was transporting its belongings in trucks to empty the yard if a lawsuit is filed .
Recently, in Medley, two truckers They caught a thief and brutally beat him while the subject attempted to steal their vehicle at a gas station in the Pilot Travel Center.
In the same area of Miami-Dade, two other truckers died in February as a result of an explosion in a workshop that carries out welding work on heavy machinery.