April 11, 2023
TRENTON – The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s (NJDOL) Wage and Hour Division completed its first strategic enforcement initiative involving the retail laundromat industry, including a comprehensive analysis of industry practices and areas identified for corrective action.
Enterprise Cleaner Paid Workers Below Minimum Wage Without Adequate Overtime Pay or Paid Sick Leave
October 18, 2022 | Attorney General’s Press Office/212-416-8060 [email protected]
NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced that she has recovered $90,000 in stolen and unpaid wages for more than a dozen former employees of a commercial dry cleaner in Astoria, Queens.
New York Attorney General Letitia James
original article by Gabriele Holtermann for the villager on amny.com
Laundry workers and allies demand the right to unionize on May Day. (Photo by Gabriele Holtermann)
After everything that Liox Cleaning workers have been through, we’re thrilled to see that Liox has been named one of America’s Dirty Dozen unsafe employers in @NationalCOSH’s Dirty Dozen report. #WorkedUp
Read full report here: https://nationalcosh.org/sites/default/files/uploads/2022_Dirty_Dozen.pdf
Immigrant workers and their allies are cleaning up an industry rife with wage theft and abusive working conditions.
On March 2020, at the height of the pandemic, Beatrice Ramirez tried to make a face mask out of paper because her employer would not provide her with one.
Original article By Daniel Parra on citylimits.org
What was the role of Latinos and immigrants during Occupy Wall Street? What role did immigration issues play as part of the demands of the occupiers? Participants, scholars, and journalists reconstruct the influence of Latinos and immigrants on Occupy.
Rosanna Rodríguez, co-executive director of the Laundry Workers Center. (photo by Adi Talwar)
Former Best Super Cleaning Workers And The Laundry Workers Center Protest Outside A Williamsburg Best Super Cleaning Construction Site. Photo: Amir Khafagy For Documented
By Trabajadores Internacionales Clasistas / Class Struggle International Workers
Original article on internationalist.org
Launch of organizing drive of indigenous immigrant construction workers in New York City, May 2. (Internationalist photo)
