Wage Theft: No Cheesecake for You, The Importance of Unions, and Blaming All of Your Problems on the Orange Guy - a podcast by Stranger Times Studios

from 2020-09-18T08:00

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Fresh off the Labor Day holiday, Los and Bertram dig deep into the wage theft issue in the U.S.
What is wage theft? What are the impacts? What can we do about it? Where are our politicians? And why you don't deserve a slice of cheesecake.
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This was our season finale! Stay tuned for a special announcement next week!Resources from this episode:
https://www.wagetheft.org (WageTheft.org)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqCMeLTfnos (Wage Theft: How it Happens by Hank Green (YouTube))
https://www.epi.org/publication/epidemic-wage-theft-costing-workers-hundreds/ (Economic Policy Institute - An Epidemic of Wage Theft Is Costing Workers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars a Year)https://web.archive.org/web/20130815194445/http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/flsa1938.htm (Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft–Hartley_Act (Taft-Hartley Act)https://apnews.com/531a738a28da44f28cb87ea036366e54 (Minnesota lawmakers, labor make push against wage theft)

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