wage theft
What a surprise that billionaire sports owners would steal from their poorest employees: Two Major League Baseball clubs–the San Francisco Giants and Miami Marlins—are under investigation by the U.S. Department.
I see the garment industry is up to the same tricks it's been using since before the Triangle Fire, this time stealing wages from Haitian workers. And who could have.
Great job by IBEW Local 520 in Austin to execute its own undercover investigation of independent contractor fraud among the city's construction industry. Basically, employers are listing workers as independent contractors to avoid labor law. They then place these workers in dangerous situations, take advantage...
Shipbuilding corporation Signal International has some very special labor practices, policies that more corporations would emulate if they could get away it: The lawsuits allege that Signal and its agents.
It's good to see the legions of unpaid interns at profit-generating companies organizing and fighting back against the theft of their labor.
We think of the company store as a relic of the Gilded Age, of one-company towns dominating the lives of their workers. We left this behind with the New Deal, right? Well, we did leave it behind but like the rest of the Gilded Age,...