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The press has started to pick up on wage theft.
The New York Times says:
Low-Wage Workers Are Often Cheated (eng)
NPR covers the great work of the New Orleans Workers’ Congress:
A Day’s Work Doesn’t Mean a Day’s Pay (eng)
The Southern Povertly Law Center highlights violations of Latin@ worker rights in the South US:
Under Seige: Life for Low-Income Latin@s in the South (eng)
The National Employment Law Project (NELP) has put out some interesting studies on the matter:
Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers: Violation of Employment and Labor Laws in America’s Cities (eng)
Confronting the Gloves-off Economy: America’s Broken Labor Standards and How to Fix Them (eng)
and Chris Benoit and his committee in El Paso are letting us know that wage theft crosses borders:
Empleadas domésticas preparan demandas (esp)
