Yes. God forbid the USA might end up more like Europe with its *checks notes* lower crime rates, lack of school shootings, widespread universal health care, worker rights…

03.03.2025 07:46 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Trump has already said he might approve of migrants coming in to the USA to do the jobs Americans won't do. What he's really wanting is indentured slaves, with no worker rights, living in camps & paid less than minimum wage. If they complain about anything then they're immediately deported

18.04.2025 10:02 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

From Fear to Power: How Indonesian Women Workers Won Binding Commitments for Change - Worker Rights Consortium Worker Rights Consortium

Women workers in #Indonesia, with support from WRC, Asia Floor Wage Alliance & @globallaborjustice.bsky.social, have signed the new Central Java Agreement for Gender Justice. A model for ending #GBVH in supply chains—through binding, enforceable agreements. #GBVH #LaborRights tinyurl.com/39y35prx

12.03.2025 15:44 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

Misclassified: New Jersey Truckers Fight Back (Ep. 8)

On this week's episode of Malmborg Report, I interview a labor organizer on the beat for the truck drivers at Port Newark in New Jersey. We talk building a union, deploying leverage, and expose the misclassification crisis affecting the drivers.

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25.03.2025 20:20 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The image is a two-panel cartoon featuring a large yellow bird character, resembling a puppet, standing in a classroom setting. In the first panel, the bird is standing in front of a chalkboard, addressing a group of children seated on the floor. The bird says, "Hi kids, today we're going to learn about WAGE THEFT." In the second panel, a close-up of the bird shows it continuing the lesson. The speech bubble reads, "Record-breaking profits without any increase in worker wages is called: WAGE THEFT."

24.04.2025 15:16 — 👍 309    🔁 112    💬 4    📌 2

JUST NOW: House Rep. Maxwell Frost: “We can’t let these billionaires and corporations gaslight us. You know what the largest kind of theft is in this country? Wage theft.”

25.04.2025 01:17 — 👍 924    🔁 137    💬 6    📌 7

Myths About Misclassification

“Receiving a 1099 tax form is simply the result of how your employer classifies you for federal tax purposes, but the form itself does not mean you are correctly classified as an independent #contractor for federal tax purposes.”—US Dept. of Labor
www.dol.gov/agencies/whd....

26.04.2025 22:29 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The economic costs of worker misclassification Federal, state, and local labor laws provide extensive protections for employees, including the minimum wage, overtime pay, eligibility for state and federal unemployment insurance, Workers' Compensat...

Misclassification strips workers of protections from wage theft. It forces working people into a zone of abandonment where there is no defense save costly legal fees. The IRS will try to help, but they do not have an enforcement arm. www.epi.org/publication/...

26.04.2025 22:24 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0