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The workshop will include a presentation and discussion on wage theft, a crime that largely goes unpunished as labor law enforcement is often weak or non-existent. We will also explore creative local and national strategies to fight back, including:
• innovative partnerships between state Departments of Labor and worker and immigrant rights advocates; • direct action campaigns led by worker centers (including the religious and community support campaign for the Republic Windows workers in Chicago); • Wage Theft municipal ordinance and state legislation campaigns; • Interfaith Worker Justice’s national work with the U.S. Department of Labor to partner with community worker advocates and carry out targeted investigations of industries and businesses that repeatedly steal wages, and IWJ’s campaign to pass federal wage theft legislation.
Workshop participants will be asked to organize or support local events as part of a national wage theft Day of Action, which is being planned for July.
Presenters will include IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo, author of Wage Theft in America; one worker and one community activist with experience seeking justice on this issue; and IWJ Public Policy Director Ted Smukler.
