Action Alert: Stop Wage Theft Now!
With little or no fanfare, the NYS Senate passed the Wage Theft Prevention Act on June 30. They sent it to the Assembly that same day and then… nothing happened.
With little or no fanfare, the NYS Senate passed the Wage Theft Prevention Act on June 30. They sent it to the Assembly that same day and then… nothing happened.
From time to time, we get phone calls or other requests from people, asking us to recommend good restaurants or good businesses, ones that haven’t been involved in problems with their workers. Generally, we don’t tell people to boycott businesses, unless the business has been recalcitrant in correcting mistakes. All of us involved in the […]
Education is the big industry in Tompkins County; the second largest employer is Ithaca College. IC employees receive generous time off, benefits — and a living wage. But the dining workers do not share decent salaries and benefits because they work for Sodexo, a multinational subcontractor.The IC administration says that Sodexo can make its own […]
The press is ablaze with stories about workers’ issues right now; I thought we’d share a few with you. First off, Ithaca College’s Buzzsaw magazine had an article by Lyndsey Lyman about the realities of living without an adequate income, Battling the Poverty Line: the modern paradox of life without a living wage. Image to […]
Today is the day that all of us should reflect on the crime that almost never goes punished: wage theft. Interfaith Worker Justice has a page on its website describing some of the actions IWJ affiliates are planning. Earlier this week, I posted a bit about a wage theft case involving immigrant workers mistreated while […]