3. Wage theft awards are rarely recouped civilly. Criminal prosecution provides incentive to make worker & reduce jail time.
4. Criminal prosecution is a deterrence. Throw some employers in jail, fewer bosses will make a business decision to steal from their workers.

When people are empowered they fight for the things that matter to them. A lot of times that is getting the brakes on the truck loader fixed. And that’s a radical action by almost any measure.

It's the job of journalists to investigate how products made from forced labor reach American stores as The Associated Press did in its seafood from slavery series.

But now there's an initiative backed by big business to make it impossible to track those supply chains.
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REPORT: The Failure of Employers to Mitigate the Effects of Heat Stress on Workers Causes Preventable Heat-related Illness, Injury and Fatalities and Costs the U.S. Economy Nearly $100 Billion Each Year. citizen.org/article/heat-s…

This morning, I went to Oak Hill, WV and sat down with a former coal miner who was recently diagnosed with progressive massive fibrosis (PMF), the most severe form of black lung. He’s lost 20% of his lung capacity, and is also suffering from heart issues.

He is 42 years old.

Also want to flag Judge Chin's outstanding concurrence/dissent. Judge Chin recognizes that our clients alleged 'special injury' to bring public nuisance claims. While a pandemic can cause harm to everyone, it poses a special harm to workers.

The case stands for some really important propositions, including that workers can sue under state law when their employer endangers them. Neither OSHA's jurisdiction over federal workplace safety law nor the state's workers' compensation scheme displaces that right.

.Towards Justice is proud to represent workers at Amazon's JFK8 facility who won this important victory in the Second Circuit today, a critical step in their long fight to hold one of the most powerful corporations in the world accountable for its mistreatment of workers.

Agency battling wage theft in California is too short-staffed to do its job calmatters.org/california-div…

NJ is trying to impose a nearly 20% healthcare hike cause state workers—drumroll—used their healthcare insurance a lot after a year of not being able to at all at height of the pandemic.😔🧐

Extreme heat kills more people globally than any other climate change related hazard. It also causes massive population movements and deeper inequality for places already in crisis.

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LIVE: Poushawn Brown’s family, Amazon workers & supporting orgs are rallying now to demand #JusticeForPoushawnBrown

Poushawn was an Amazon worker in VA who died suddenly in Jan 2021 after being assigned to test fellow workers for COVID.

Imagine if they had gone this route in 2021 instead of the disastrous vaccine-or-test rule.

Better yet: what if the Clinton administration had not slow-rolled to death the indoor air quality standard that the Bush I administration kickstarted?

So, americanair, I'm in the middle of a 3-week vacation but need to return to the U.S. immediately because my father is dying. Your team's current solution for me is to buy a new ticket. Surely we can do better?

This is super cool. upi.com/Top_News/US/20…

Uber has also funded studies that say 'drivers don't want to be employees,' commissioned polls that say drivers 'wish to remain independent,' and has been behind seemingly independent op-eds in favor of 'driver flexibility'
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