On AlterNet: wage theft

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Ehrenreich: How Corporations and Local Governments Rob the Poor Blind

Barbara Ehrenreich, TomDispatch.com. May 17, 2012.

The trick is to rob them in ways that are systematic, impersonal, and almost impossible to trace to individual perpetrators.

Why Don't We Pay People Enough? 8 Facts About America's Struggling Working People

Bill Quigley, AlterNet. January 23, 2012.

Millions of people in the U.S. work and are still poor.

Is Cutting Benefits For Public Workers Actually Wage Theft? Reframing the Right's Attacks On Unions

s.e. smith, AlterNet. July 13, 2011.

"Wage theft" has been a helpful frame for labor unions to fight for their workers' rights. Could it be applied to attacks on public workers' pensions--or Social Security?

Union-Busting Is Theft -- a Weapon of Class Warfare from Above

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. February 23, 2011.

Union-busting allows bosses to rig the labor market in their favor.

Wage Theft Is Rampant in America -- Is Your Boss Ripping You off?

Dick Meister, AlterNet. December 28, 2010.

U.S. employers are stealing millions of dollars from their own employees -- often right out in the open, unchallenged.

Revelations of Extreme 'Slave-Like' Working Conditions and Billions in Wage Theft Drive Nationwide Protests

Art Levine, In These Times. November 13, 2010.

As much as $19 billion is stolen from American workers annually in unpaid overtime and minimum wage violations and through the human trafficking of legal immigrant workers.

Stolen Wages and Arizona's Draconian Immigration Law

Danny Postel, Ted Smukler, In These Times. July 29, 2010.

Our labor laws apply to all workers employed in the U.S. regardless of immigration status.

Wage Theft Swamps Chicagoland: Workplace Protections Are Failing Cook County's Low-Wage Workers

Amy Taubin, Drum Major Institute. April 13, 2010.

What if we had a minimum wage, but nobody felt constrained to pay it? Or getting injured at work yielded no workers compensation, but a very real risk of losing your job?

We're Doing a Heckuva Job Helping Those Devastated by the Economic Meltdown

Karen Dolan, Diana Pearce, AlterNet. December 7, 2009.

Like the levees in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the safety net is failing Americans battered by the 'Great Recession' of 2008-2009.

Obama: Stop the Great American Wage Rip-Off!

Kim Bobo, Dissent Magazine. December 5, 2008.

Wage theft is a widespread crisis affecting millions of U.S. workers from whom billions of dollars are stolen each year.