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Dear David: It’s Called Theft
Question: My employer may have shorted my pay over the past three years by more than $9,400—yet I am told the only way I can recover the money is through a civil lawsuit. I live in Ohio, but the...
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Albuquerque Workers on Mayor Berry: “He’s Basically Ignoring a Law and That’s...
On Thursday night, Working America held its first of many Workers Clinics in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lawyers from the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty came in to answers questions on workers’...
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Person to Person, Working for Fair Wages in Texas
Alavaro Rodriguez, Jr., reports from Texas. Yesterday, a group of volunteers including my father (Alvaro Rodriguez Sr.) and I got together at the Harris County AFL-CIO for a phone bank party. We...
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It’s Probably Happened to You: 16 Stories of Wage Theft and Other Bad Boss...
What’s “wage theft?” Chances are it’s happened to you. Wage theft describes any situation where workers don’t receive their legally or contractually promised wages. This could be non-payment of...
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14 Worker Struggles To Pay Attention To This Labor Day
Sure, to some people #LaborDayIs about barbecues and fashion rules. But #LaborDayIs also about, you know, labor. Today, workers across the country are struggling for decent wages, safe workplaces,...
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After Only Six Months, Working America is Booming in Texas
The following is a guest post from Michael Hicks, one of our first Working America members in Houston, Texas. Howdy! They say everything’s bigger in Texas, and it’s true! The Working America squad here...
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Workers Across Houston Are Being Robbed. Will City Leaders Stand Up and Stop It?
Workers across Houston are being robbed. But it’s not by a masked burglar. It’s by their bosses. Wage theft happens every day across America. Low-wage workers, particularly those in the retail and...
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Houston Workers Celebrate Passage of Wage Theft Ordinance
After months of door-to-door organizing, petitioning, phone calls to lawmakers and mobilizing by a coalition of more than 30 community, faith and labor groups including Working America and Fe y...
View ArticleTrucking Companies Steal Wages From Employees
In what appears to be one of the grossest examples of what can happen to workers when employers aren’t properly regulated, a new report by the National Employment Law Project (NELP), Change to Win...
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Silicon Valley Executives Collaborated to Suppress Employee Wages By $3 Billion
A class-action lawsuit has accused several high-profile Silicon Valley CEO’s of suppressing wages, to the tune of $3 billion, through a top-secret agreement to abstain from recruiting each other’s...
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Exotic Dancers Sue, Misclassified as Independent Contractors But Treated Like...
The distinction between an independent contractor and an employee is undoubtedly a confusing issue for many workers, but being misclassified as an independent contractor can result in quite a bit of...
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Class-Action Suit: McDonald’s and Franchisees Accused of Wage Theft
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against McDonald’s and the company’s franchisees in three states, alleging various forms of wage theft at restaurants in California, Michigan and New York,...
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The Rabbit Hole Gets Deeper: Silicon Valley Wage Suppression Suit Indicates a...
What began as a ploy from tech CEOs to limit gifted engineers from gaining higher wages and possibly better jobs has revealed itself to be a large-scale operation with multiple corporate participants....
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Workers File Complaint Under New Houston Wage Theft Ordinance
On Tuesday, a group of workers organized to file a complaint under the new Houston wage theft ordinance. Erik Lopez and 12 other workers, in collaboration with the Faith and Justice Worker Center,...
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When It Comes to Worker Rights, It’s Not Just About Minimum Wage
The New York Times recently ran an article that addressed the extent to which certain political figures have gone to maintain employers’ power over workers. According to the article, over the past few...
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The House of Representatives Just Stood Up Against Wage Theft
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed an amendment, introduced by the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), to penalize contractors that have previously committed wage theft. Similar to the...
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Three Great Reasons Why Fast Food Workers Are Striking Today
Today thousands of fast food workers, with a little bit of help from some homecare workers, went on strike in 100 cities and staged sit-ins in 12 cities. Organizers are calling it a day of non-violent...
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