Entire Mexican Workforce Leaves after Colleagues Fired (+Video)
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A video appeared online showing Mexican construction workers leaving their workplace in solidarity after some of their co-workers were fired.
The incident reportedly happened in Indianapolis on July 31 at a new depot that was being built for UPS.
The walkout was apparently in retaliation to one of their bosses, who has been accused of racism, who dismissed a small number of workers for disobeying orders.
After learning of this, the entire Mexican workforce at the site, which is believed to be around 100, all left and completely shut down the operation.
A video of the moment was captured by Antonie Dangerfield, a 30-year-old welder who was also working on the site but under a different contractor, which shows the Mexican workers leaving in their droves.
At the time of writing the video has been viewed over 2.5 million times on Facebook and has also gone viral on Twitter, YouTube and Reddit.
As the video progresses, you can see that when everyone has left the facility is basically a ghost town, without a soul in sight.
Antoine has since revealed that he was fired for posting the video and was offered $250 to remove it but refused to because of how popular it was.
