Workers at Indus Valley restaurant exposed the Department of Labor’s delays and failure to resolve complaints when they took to the streets to demand action after waiting 6 years. After more than a month, the workers forced the DOL to act and won!
But we won’t stop here…… Continue Reading
Albor Ruiz for the Daily News: The sign at a rally outside state Department of Labor offices last week said it all: “Hey Cuomo, what would you do if you had to wait over six years to be paid by your employer?” Yes, Gov. Cuomo, what would you do? Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/restaurant-workers-waging-war-wage-theft-article-1.1829472#ixzz34nzIYow8
Hundreds of low-income workers rallied outside of the Department of Labor’s office in downtown New York City today to hold the Governor accountable for failing to enforce the law to combat the epidemic of wage theft, which costs workers in NYC alone a billion dollars a year.… Continue Reading
In 2008, workers at Indus Valley Restaurant went to the Department of Labor to file complaints about the minimum-wage violations by their employer. Year after year, they called the Department of Labor about their case. Nothing. And they’re not alone–the DOL has 14,000 open cases. Join us at at the protest in front of the DOL on Weds,… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
We submit this letter on behalf of a coalition of worker advocacy organizations and legal service providers to urge you to direct Department of Labor Commissioner Peter Rivera to immediately appoint a Wage Board and issue Wage Orders to boost pay for New York’s food service workers and to protect workers from rampant wage theft.… Continue Reading
From the AFL-CIO: 1. Nearly two-thirds of minimum wage workers are women. Nearly four in 10 female minimum wage workers are women of color. 2. If the minimum wage were raised to $10.10, 25 million to 28 million workers would get a raise. About 55% of the workers who would benefit, more than 15 million people,… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
Rally in front of the State Legislature Office 250 Broadway, Manhattan Wednesday, March 19, 11:30 AM For decades, working conditions have been getting worse, workers’ wages have been plunging, the middle class has been shrinking, and working people often need to work two jobs to put food on the table. The general public overwhelmingly supports an… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
From WAMC: About 100 demonstrators carried signs and recited chants, urging Cuomo to move to raise the state minimum wage and ban hydrofracking. Community activist Jo Ann Lum: “So we’re out here to say, like, Cuomo, you messed up with the minimum wage bill that you passed. You gotta take steps immediately to make sure this… Continue Reading… Continue Reading
From the NY Daily News: Gov. Cuomo made his re-election pitch to GOP powerbrokers at the Harvard Club Thursday, with attendees saying he sought to strike a politically moderate, fiscally conservative tone while urging them to return a Democrat to the state’s highest office.… Continue Reading