Wage Theft

  • Video: Fighting Wage Theft in New York
    GritTV reports on the arrest of owner of a New York boutique chain last week, charges that grew from a union-backed drive to remake retail by attacking its worst employers. (See this Labor Notes story for more on that).
  • NY Boutique Boss Arrested, Faces 4 Years in Jail for Stealing Wages
    by Mischa Gaus
    Feb 25 2010 - 4:41pm

    The owner of a New York boutique chain accused of shorting workers by $1.5 million was taken away in handcuffs Tuesday. The charges grew from a union-backed drive to remake retail by attacking its worst employers.

  • Restaurant Workers Launch Multi-City Campaign to Transform Low-Wage Industry
    Paul Abowd
    Feb 4 2010 - 11:26am

    The Restaurant Opportunities Center has launched workplace justice campaigns in four cities aimed at flipping the low-wage, high-discrimination industry.

  • Putting Wage Theft on the Map (Literally)

    To combat a wave of staggering illegality in low-wage and poorly regulated industries, a Chicago worker center has collaborated with a local university to create a map of law-breaking employers against which they have organized, giving workers and activists a powerful visual tool to bring to politicians and the community.

  • Tell Detroit Restaurant Chain You're Fed Up With Wage Theft
    Labor Notes
    Dec 3 2009 - 10:53am

    The Restaurant Opportunities Center of Michigan (ROC), one of eight regional affiliates of the national workers center, is upping the pressure on a metro Detroit fine dining chain this week. Restaurant workers are fighting Andiamo Italia over a raft of claims, including wage theft and racial and ethnic discrimination—and are asking for support from Labor Notes readers.

  • Restaurant Workers Tell Fancy Dining Chain: Quit Stealing Wages

    The sidewalk outside a restaurant in suburban Detroit was packed for the Friday night dinner rush—but it wasn't because the line was out the door. Restaurant workers and supporters were out front protesting a slew of minimum-wage violations, part of a national campaign against employers that steal wages.

  • No Patience Left for InkStop's Wage Theft

    InkStop, a chain of ink cartridge and small electronics stores, closed its 152 locations nationwide on October 1—without warning. InkStop’s owner Dirk Kettlewell had predicted profits by the end of this year thanks to over $80 million from private investors. Now he and the company’s board have shut it all down, bilking those investors and leaving 550 employees without pay for their last three weeks of work.