As Trump kneecaps workers’ rights across the country, the city’s political and labor leaders have forged an alternative that furnishes new safeguards for Philadelphians.
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Trump Labor Nominees Indifferent to Worker Rights
Today on TAP: The nominee to run OSHA ran Amazon’s abysmal worker safety program.
Posted inWorking in America
Fighting Wage Theft From the Ground Up
Localities and worker centers are joining forces to drive back employers who siphon off their employees’ hard-earned dollars.
Posted inWorking in America
Philadelphia Workers Are Readying a Bill With a Basic Demand: Just Enforce the Law
Nannies, housekeepers and gig workers have already won legal protections. Now they want consequences for bosses who break the rules.
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If You Stiff Your Workers, New Jersey Will Shut You Down
Today on TAP: The state’s labor department ordered 27 Boston Market outlets to stop work after they violated minimum-wage laws.
Posted inWorking in America
Minnesota Prison Officials Seized $10,000 in Wages From Incarcerated Workers
Stillwater prison authorities gave 44 incarcerated workers a raise and then, months later, said they had to pay it back. The incarcerated workers say it’s wage theft.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Project Censored, Part 1: Billionaire Press Domination
Fossil fuel subsidies, wage theft, EPA risk reports, congressional conflicts of interest, and dark, dark money: Concentration of corporate wealth and power distorts everything we see — and don’t see — in the world around us every day.
Posted inWorking in America
Minneapolis Construction Workers Fight Chronic Wage Theft
The Midwest building industry is notorious for cheating paychecks.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Progressive Policing Requires a Well-Funded War on Corporate Crime
Under Reagan, the feds paid cities to make drug busts. Under Biden, the feds should pay cities to crack down on wage theft.
Posted inCabinet Watch
Will California’s Julie Su Be Biden’s Labor Secretary?
If he appoints her, she’d be the 21st-century Frances Perkins.