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GRITtv: Wage Theft in America
Underpaying workers. Denying them overtime. And stealing their wages. It all adds up to a business strategy that makes up what some have called the gloves off economy. According to the authors of a new report, Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers, wage theft and workplace abuses are widespread across key industries in the economy. How does it happen? Annette Bernhardt, co-author of the report, Nancy Cauthen of the Economic Opportunity Project, Patrick Purcell of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, and Gonzalo Mercado of El Centro de Hospitalidad on low wage workers and the American economy.
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According to a new report, Broken Law, Unprotected Workers, wage theft and workplace abuses are widespread across key industries in the economy. How does it happen? And David Cole, editor of Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable, on the authorization of torture by high level officials in the Bush administration. Will they be prosecuted?
