Imagine a scheme where workers are paid $2.13 / hour and forced to pay for lobbying that keeps their salaries below minimum wage. “The National Restaurant Association (NRA) uses mandatory $15 food-safety classes to turn waiters and cooks into unwitting funders of its battle against minimum wage increases.” – NY Times Follow the money with …
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“Child Labor Is on the Rise” – The New Yorker “State legislatures across the country are making it easier to hire minors in low-paid and dangerous jobs. This surge is being propelled by an unhappy confluence of employers desperate to fill jobs, including dangerous jobs, at the lowest possible cost; a vast wave of “unaccompanied …
“Conservative campaign to strip child workplace protections.” – WaPo Billionaires get richer by lobbying Republicans to relax labor laws that protect children. Desperate families forced to send their children to work in dangerous conditions rather than get an education. Welcome to the real world American Hunger Games. See how the game is played with this …
“Meat industry’s use of child labor is more widespread than previously known” – Food Safety News Billion dollar corporations with million dollar CEOs using child labor! Republicans rail against immigration but do nothing to reform the immigration system while collecting political donations for corporations. Corporations using undocumented workers to deny American workers a living wage …
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Multi-billion dollar firms deny gig workers health insurance, death benefits and the right to organize. “Gig workers are classified as independent contractors. That designation obscures a loophole in the law that prevents gig workers from receiving the same rights and benefits as regular employees in the United States, such as a minimum wage, the right …
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