There are many procedures to prepare for a joint prosecution.
Bella brought lawyer Jerry Hogarth to meet with Old Joe and others separately to negotiate their demands.
Their request was simple: to pay the pension of the elderly in a timely and full amount in the future. If the acquirer was unwilling to accept this payment model, a one-time payment could be made in combination with the physical condition of the elderly.
As for the relocation of the steel plant to Vietnam, what should be done with the jobs of the employees in the factory now?
There is no solution to this problem! Human resources in the East are cheap, and there is no reason to ask capitalists to use expensive ones instead of cheap ones.
This is a super social problem. Not to mention Bella and lawyer Hogarth, the two newbies, even the president who governs the country with Twitter has no good solution to this.
From a national perspective, at most, some tax reduction measures are implemented to encourage capitalists to use domestic workers. As for whether the capitalists listen or not, that is another matter.
Bella certainly has no way to solve this social problem. She is not a savior. Let the employees figure it out for themselves.
After more than ten days of negotiation, Bella obtained the signatures of 59 old workers, including Old Joe, Old Willy, and Old Yar, as their joint plaintiffs, and formally filed a civil lawsuit against Wexler Steel and Stark Industries Phoenix Branch, which acquired the steel company.
Jerry Hogarth was also eager for fame. Even though the lawyer's fees had not been fully paid, she began to follow Bella to visit the elderly one by one, organize materials, and prepare for appeal.
At the same time, Natasha also organized a large number of elderly people to march and demonstrate in the old city and the east and west urban areas.
Bella's previous memory was not received at all, which resulted in her not knowing her classmates and teachers at all. She was a fake local. Organizing the parade could only be left to Natasha.
If the elderly stood in the sun for two hours, they would definitely not be able to hold on. Just like punching in, let them come and stroll around every morning. Some of the members of the parade were young students nearby, and the other large part were the sons, daughters, grandsons, and granddaughters of the workers.
The slogan "We want bread, we want work" must not be used. The old man and the old woman are all 80 years old. It is murder to ask them to work. The main content of the slogan is to pay pensions, and pensions shall not be stopped for any reason in the future.
With two prongs, their momentum rose immediately. The accident of Flight 180 only faced the passengers of that flight, while the demonstration and lawsuit now represent a group and target a multinational group. The impact on society is not at the same level at all.
California, Los Angeles.
Tony Stark, a super genius who claimed to be able to make circuit boards at the age of four, build engines at the age of six, and graduated from MIT at the age of seventeen, just sent away a female star whose name he could not remember.
He has always been a darling of the media. Who is he dating, what is his opinion on certain policies, what is his opinion on New York council members, what is his opinion on Los Angeles council members, which team he supports, all kinds of messy questions will surround him when he walks out of the villa.
It is normal to ask questions. As a super topic figure, it would be strange if there were no media reporters asking questions.
If the female reporter was pretty and had a good figure, Tony Stark would answer her, otherwise he would ignore her.
But today's questions had some new twists.
"Mr. Stark, what do you think about the embezzlement of pensions for the elderly? Where did these pensions go? You made the elderly homeless while you yourself enjoyed top social resources. Don't you feel guilty?"
What kind of messed up questions are these? Opinions? What opinions can I have? These questions are meaningless to Tony Stark. There are too many people who criticize him in various ways. Without thinking, he opened the car door and left his villa in a flash.
He didn't take it seriously because he was too far away.
But when the incident slowly spread from Arizona to California, tens of thousands of industrial workers were still alarmed.
Retired workers are worried that their pensions will be stopped, and those who are still on the job are worried about the future. What if they retire and their pensions are gone? Who can bear this!
The workers' concerns did not attract enough attention from the management. There are too many companies and individuals suing Stark Industries. If the group deals with them every time with great fanfare, then the management will have no time to work.
Someone sued us? OK, transfer it to the legal department and let the legal department deal with the other party!
Stark Industries did not take it seriously, but their competitors were quite happy. These people were behind the demonstrations in California, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado and several other states.
Even Bella received an unsigned check for a full $10,000. The other party probably wanted her to be more careful, right?
Phoenix Court.
Bella, dressed in a formal suit, sat calmly behind the plaintiff's table, and attorney Jerry Hogarth sat next to her.
The clients and attorneys of the steel plant and Stark Industries Phoenix Branch sat on the defendant's side.
Old Joe and his group sat in the audience at the back.
On the side of the judge and the clerk were the twelve-member jury.
The bearded judge announced the opening of the court, and attorney Hogarth began his extremely sharp statement.
"On behalf of fifty-nine seniors, I formally sue Wexler Steel and Stark Industries.
History should not be forgotten. I hope history will remember today, remember this moment today.
Our predecessors worked hard and selflessly for the war, and now they are old. Those companies are so stingy that they even want to encroach on that meager pension. What about us? When we are old, what will we rely on to live?
When I lose my ability to act and can no longer stand in the court to speak, when the jurors retire from their current jobs due to illness and age, if our pensions are frozen at that time, what should we do? Go begging? Kneel in front of the gate of Stark Industries and beg them to give us a piece of bread?
The law! The law is the effective weapon to safeguard our own rights and interests and protect ourselves! What we want is not begging, not Mr. Tony Stark, Mr. Obadiah Stane gave us a piece of bread like a saint, what we want is decency, the last dignity of a person to spend his old age in a civilized society!"
Miss Jerry Hogarth is still a little immature now, but you can see that there is excitement in her tone.
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