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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.
Email this pageGRITtv: September 14, 2009
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?
GRITtv: What EFCA is Up Against
Opposition to union organizing within the workplace has become more intense and punitive in recent years making it incredibly difficult and risky for workers to unionize. As unemployment continues to rise and workers struggle for a bit of parity, will the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) pass? Kate Bronfenbrenner of Cornell's Labor Education Research in a new report, No Holds Barred: The Intensification of Employer Opposition to Organizing, details the hurdles that workers face in trying to form unions and why EFCA would help. Bronfenbrenner, Mark Winston Griffith, Director of the Drum Major Institute, Pat Purcell, Director of Special Projects at the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1500, and Bob Master, Political Director of Communications Workers of America on whether the recession will strengthen unions.
