Building Bridges: NYC Carwasheros Washing Out Wage Theft - 27:44
Carwasheros are
Washing Out Industry Wage Theft,
Demanding Dignity on the
Job and Union Representation
Featuring
The Carwasheros
Mayor Bill de Blasio
Attorney General Eric
Schneiderman,
City Council Speaker Melissa
Mark-Viverito
Carwasheros are the thousands of workers who
shampoo, wax, dry, and detail cars and who are among some of the most exploited workers in New York. They frequently work in appalling conditions for low or, in
many instances no wages. Too often car wash owners flout labor laws, health and safety regulations and environmental protections in their single minded drive for profits. But carwash workers throughout New York have come
together in the Wash New York campaign and have succeeded in voting to unionize eight workplaces and have won contracts at six of them. They’re a part of the trend of low-wage workers organizing throughout the country and breathing life into the cause for workers justice and we'll hear all about
their organizing for workers’ rights.
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