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Two DC employers to pay nearly $500k for wage theft

CSA Bowling Tournament - New registration time for morning bowlers

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Two DC employers to pay nearly $500k for wage theft
Two District employers will pay nearly $500,000 in back pay and penalties for wage theft, DC Attorney General Karl Racine announced yesterday. Rock Spring Contracting, a construction company, will pay over $280,000 for allegedly misclassifying workers as independent contractors and depriving them of legally-mandated paid sick leave and overtime pay, and the OAG also won a judgment of more than $216,000 against J.D. Nursing and Management Services, Inc., a now-shuttered home healthcare company that stole months' worth of wages from personal care aides. "Our office is proud to stand up for District workers, and will not hesitate to file suit when necessary against employers that fail to pay workers what they have rightfully earned," said AG Racine. "With important cases already under active investigation, District employers must understand that wage theft and worker misclassification are illegal and carry serious consequences."

CSA Bowling Tournament - New registration time for morning bowlers
"This year's morning session registration starts at 8:00 AM -- bowling starts at 9:00 AM -- this will give us more time to make the shift between the morning and afternoon sessions," says CSA Executive Director Sonte DuCote. "Also, the cost to bowl increased so we had to increase the cost per bowler to $30," laments DuCote. Tournament proceeds help support the Emergency Assistance Fund providing limited financial assistance for workers facing hardships due to no fault of their own. Email mailto:[email protected] [email protected] or visit [link removed] CSA's website for the CSA 28th Annual Bowling for Gold Union Bowling Tournament -- set for January 26 -- registration information.

Today's Labor Quote: Tom Mooney
"I suppose the urge to serve the labor movement was born in me."
The IWW leader was tried on this date in 1917 for a bombing in San Francisco; he served 22 years in prison before finally being pardoned in 1939.

Today's Labor History

This week's [link removed] Labor History Today podcast: 100 years of the ILO
Historians Eileen Boris and Jill Jensen on the complicated legacy of the International Labour Organization, ranging from its early challenge to the Bolshevik revolution to its role in the Cold War and as a countervailing force to the World Bank's model for international development. Plus, remembering Adolph Strasser, co-founder of the AFL.
Last week's show: (12/22): [link removed] Working-Class Christmas

The ship Thetis arrives in Hawaii with 175 Chinese field workers bound to serve for five years at $3 per month - 1852

In a familiar scene during the Great Depression, some 500 farmers, black and white, their crops ruined by a long drought, march into downtown England, Ark., to demand food for their starving families, warning they would take it by force if necessary. Town fathers frantically contacted the Red Cross; each family went home with two weeks' rations - 1931

AFL-CIO American Institute for Free Labor Development employees Mike Hammer and Mark Pearlman are assassinated in El Salvador along with a Peasant Workers' Union leader with whom they were working on a land reform program - 1981
- David Prosten

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