In the days leading up to a Congressional vote this weekend on whether and how to extend federal unemployment insurance, Faith Advocates for Jobs organized a telephone and email campaign to urge members of Congress to renew the benefit extension to prevent nearly 2 million unemployed workers and their families from falling into poverty.
Justice for All
Hour 2: Jordan Bruxvoort of the Micah Center and Eric Foster of the Urban League join us to talk about the issue of ‘wage theft’ – what it is, what is being done about it and what our listeners can do. Also,Interfaith Workers Justice, Executive Director, Kim Bobo joins the dialogue on what is being done to overcome wage theft in the United States.
Listen to the full program at Paleo Radio.
Proposed rules would allow home care workers minimum wage, overtime
CHICAGO -- Labor-backed Interfaith Worker Justice is mobilizing support for home health care workers, reminding supporters about the Mar. 15 deadline for comments on the Labor Department's proposed rules about their wages and conditions.
Waiting in vain
Workers who file wage-theft claims at the Illinois Department of Labor face a long delay and steep odds of winning back full wages.
Wage War: Employers Stealing Millions from US Workers
MIAMI – Workers nationwide are losing millions of dollars each week to wage theft as their employers, some unscrupulous, others scrambling to keep their businesses afloat, fail to pay the mandated minimum wage or overtime wages, or, in some cases, don’t pay their employees at all.
Wage theft is far more common than was known just a few years ago, according to a new report from the Research Institute on Social and Economic Policy at Florida International University.
State of the Union Address Barely Mentions Unions
WASHINGTON. D.C.—Last night, President Obama gave his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress—but barely mentioned unions. The president did touch on a number of issues important to workers—such as increasing manufacturing in America, taxing the rich more equitably, increasing education funding and increasing enforcement of trade laws—but said nothing about increased attacks on workers’ rights around the country during the last 12 months.
Working and Poor in the USA
Millions of people in the US work and are still poor. Here are eight points that show why the US needs to dedicate itself to making work pay.
The rise of the 99 percent
As Kim Bobo, the executive director of the organizing group Interfaith Worker Justice, put it: “How do we keep up the momentum?”
Pointing to the protesters’ encampments in public spaces across the country, Bobo said simply: “You can’t build a long-term movement that’s only based on people sleeping outside in tents.”
How the 1 percent live, and give
What comes to mind when you think about the 1 percent?
That they're greedy Wall Street titans who use their money to influence and game an American political system that's become outlandishly skewed in their favor? Or that they're the best and the brightest and create the jobs that keep the economy humming, to everyone's benefit?
Vigil calls for extended jobless benefits
WASHINGTON -- Ever since Shonda Sneed of Yellow Springs, Ohio, lost her engineering job two years ago, she has depended on unemployment benefits to support herself and her 81-year-old mother.