NEW YORK, NY February 16, 2007 —Delivery workers for a Midtown Chinese restaurant are suing over work conditions they say are unsafe and unfair. 10 employees of "Our Place Shanghai Tea Garden" also say they were paid far below the minimum wage. WNYC's Kathleen Horan has more.

REPORTER: The delivery workers allege they often made as little as $1.75 an hour. And they say, the boss would dock those wages and yell at them if they didn't deliver the food fast enough. One of the defendants in the lawsuit - Ooo Kwa Jong - says the boss treated the delivery workers more like slaves than humans. Jong doesn't work there anymore, he says he and some of his fellow delivery workers lost their job after they spoke out. A spokesman for the restaurant owners says they run a fair small business with resources that reflect their size and the work they do and are addressing the lawsuit with their lawyers.