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Have We Learned Anything Since The Jungle?
By Elana R. Levine, Esq.
July 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic showed the U.S. government both unable and unwilling to protect front-line workers. The article discusses working conditions for in-person workers during the pandemic, the increase in workplace injuries and deaths on the job and the government’s response.
Mythologies of Worker Rights
By Michael E. Tigar, Esq.
April 2020
The author examines myths perpetrated throughout history on workers’ rights in the U.S.; for example, the myth that U.S. workers can freely bargain for their wages. He points out that whatever right workers have had to withhold consent to low wages, it has been an individual right. When workers unite to attempt to increase their bargaining power, they are called conspirators.
The Crisis of Wage Theft
By Nina J. Baumler, Esq.
October 2019
U.S. workers are cheated out of $50 billion every year in a crisis of wage theft, which impacts workers who can least afford it. The author explains the causes, including the failure of state and federal agencies to enforce minimum wage and overtime laws. Ms. Baumler calls for greater awareness of the epidemic of wage theft and for the government to exercise the political will to change the situation.