When a parking lot attendant dared to recycle trash he picked up outside an upstate New York Walmart, the store fired him. Now generous strangers are trying to help cushion his sudden fall. Thomas Smith, 52, had been earning $9 an hour at an upstate New York Walmart for less than three months when his …
Strangers Raise Money For Walmart Worker Fired For Picking Up Cans Read More »
On September 24, just after 3 PM, a 36-year-old Haitian immigrant named Marianie Sanon was sitting on a particleboard bench in the back of a van overcrowded with 22 other Haitian temp workers on their way to the night shift at a factory in Evansville, Indiana. She noticed that the van driver seemed to be …
When Temp Workers Die While Being Taken to the Job, Who’s Responsible? Read More »
Paid sick leave isn’t just the right thing to do for people who currently face the choice of going to work sick, or going without pay. It’s a public health issue. Fifty-one percent of food workers — who do everything from grow and process food to cook and serve it — said they “always” or …
Half of Food Workers Go to Work Sick Because Lack of Paid Sick Leave Forces Them To Read More »
Posted on 05 March 2015. Tags: Eric Schneiderman, Fast Food, Wage Theft It’s a good thing when we use real words to describe the truth. When bankers rip off people with mortgage scams, it’s robbery–even if they get away with it because we have a government unwillingness to jail them. And, once and a while, …
To wrap up 2014 Workplace Fairness has added 105 new pages to keep you informed about the latest developments in employment law. We now offer detailed information, by state, on the processes for filing a workers compensation claim, and for filing an unemployment claim. Find out how to file a claim in your state, what …
Lawmakers in Michigan are still pushing a bill that would keep cities and towns from making their own decisions about paid sick days laws. We call them “preemption bills”— restaurant lobbyists and their allies call it the “kill shot” to paid sick days. The bills in the House and Senate are ALEC model bills, inspired by none other than Wisconsin …
Michigan Moms and Workers vs. Restaurant Industry and ALEC Read More »
With 12 votes needed, only 11 members of the Philadelphia City Council were willing to override Mayor Michael Nutter’s veto of the sick leave bill. For the second time in three years, corporate interests defeated a measure that would allow more than 180,000 Philadelphians to finally earn sick days. “I’m very disappointed,” said city councilman Bill Greenlee, who …
Philadelphia Falls One Vote Short of Sick Days for Over 180,000 Workers Read More »
This weekend, Missouri working families went door to door to tell their friends and neighbors about a series of anti-worker bills Republicans are pushing in the state legislature. Across the state, Missourians described the right-wing push that is advancing paycheck deception, anti-prevailing wage and “right to work” for less bills. “I’ve been knocking doors to …
Missouri Working Families Go Door to Door to Fight Anti-Worker Attacks Read More »
Walk through any supermarket poultry section and you can marvel at the wonders of the modern food processing industry: antiseptic aisles packed with gleaming, plump shrink-wrapped chickens, sold at bargain prices under the labels of trusted agribusiness brands like Tyson and Pilgrim’s. But all that quality meat doesn’t come cheap: it’s paid for dearly by …
How the Poultry Industry is Grinding Up Workers’ Health and Rights Read More »
Nearly 100 workers were arrested Wednesday night in Las Vegas as they engaged in civil disobedience to protest the Cosmopolitan casino’s refusal to agree to a fair contract with its workers. As reported Wednesday, members of Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Bartenders Local 165 blocked the street on the Las Vegas Strip, leading to 98 arrests. Workers shut …
Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
