Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/2013/06/page/2/)
Companies nationwide are engaging in an “epidemic” of wage and hour violations, denying their workers overtime pay and sometimes even the minimum wage, the Labor Department’s top lawyer says.
Labor, progressive, faith and other organizations will hold a “People’s Party” Thursday on Harriet Island in St. Paul to celebrate the accomplishments of the 2013 legislative session.
Workers who clean Target and other retail stores in the Twin Cities will hold a two-day strike starting Monday to protest working conditions and call attention to their right to form a union. The walkout will include demonstrations and a delegation to the Target shareholders’ meeting.
The recent fatal collapse of the Rana Plaza clothing factory in Bangladesh, which killed 1,129 workers who made clothes for U.S. and European retailers, has forced the Obama administration to decide by the end of this month whether to yank trade preferences for Bangladesh.
The longest U.S. hotel strike ever, by 130 workers at Chicago’s Congress Hotel, ended May 29, just short of its 10th anniversary.
A group of more than 100 Wal-Mart workers from stores in northern California, Miami, Boston, Denver and elsewhere started an extended strike on Memorial Day against the retail giant.