Trumka vs. Wall Street plus Wage Theft - 28 minutes
Labor President Trumka Takes Fight For Workers To Wall Street
Scrooge Bosses Steal From Low-Wage Workers
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John DeFilippis, Assoc. Professor, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
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Labor President Trumka Takes Fight For Workers To Wall Street
The new President of the AFL-CIO Richard Trumka called for tough new regulations on the financial industry and a new approach to making the U.S. economy responsive to working people. Trumka took to the streets as part of the new leadership team’s national tour to set out a jobs-focused, progressive vision for the economy, and to fight back against the
corporate agenda that left workers behind.
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Scrooge Bosses Steal From Low-Wage Workers
with
John DeFilippis, Assoc. Professor, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
Low-wage workers are routinely denied overtime pay and are paid less than the minimum wage, according to a new study based on a survey of workers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The study, the most comprehensive examination of wage-law violations in a decade, concludes that "the sheer breadth of the problem, spanning key industries in the economy, as well as its profound impact on workers, entailing significant economic hardship, demands urgent attention."
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