#wage-theft — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wage-theft, aggregated by home.social.
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#Capitalism (3) Forensic Food #Science
Outrageous: #profits = #stolenwages
(Bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour” eg #LabourHire racket. )
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#DemocraticSocialism Is the Compromise Position
Given our scale of #inequality, the #egalitarian reforms of democratic socialism are only the start of what we should strive for.
Kyle Schmidlin, Jul 31, 2026
Excerpt: "Reforming the #SecondGildedAge
"Whether or not one agrees with such ideas, it’s a discussion that free people are within their rights to have. Though we often treat #capitalism as a national religion, there’s nothing sacred about it. Even the US Constitution is surprisingly agnostic on questions of economic organization. It’s not encoded in our DNA—in fact, we are much more naturally inclined toward cooperation than competition. Humans have a virtually infinite number of ways we can arrange society, and we are in desperate need of rethinking ours.
"Because for the last few decades, the American economy has grown ever more off-balance, to the point where many analysts now say we’re in a second #GildedAge. We recently minted the world’s first trillionaire, while about half of us would be wiped out by any major illness, accident, or job loss. Workers have lost power, essentials like housing and healthcare are increasingly out of reach, and practically all the gains of our productivity have been accumulated at the very top, with #corporations posting record profits. #Billionaires are multiplying their wealth faster than ever, building anti-revolution doomsday bunkers, and plotting to rule their own fiefdoms as #CEOKings.
"We live in a society that’s obsessed with law and order for things like #shoplifting or overstaying a visa, but largely looks the other way on #CorporateCrimes like #pollution, #WageTheft, and #fraud—not to mention #WarCrimes and #genocide. The president is a convicted felon who wants you to ignore his decades-long friendship with a child sex trafficker and instead fear and hate the immigrant next door.
"In such a system, elites should feel relieved that people are only demanding, say, a few public options for groceries, rather than revolting. The wealthy surely all took note of the public reaction to #LuigiMangione, who is accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on the streets of New York City. Mangione became a cultural icon who was openly celebrated in many circles, making clear the rage simmering within America’s dispossessed.
"There’s a reason the progressive California Rep. #RoKhanna refers to a tax on wealth as an #AntiRevolution tax, or an attempt to save capitalism from itself. Progressive Democrats like Khanna often mediate between capitalist centers of power and the party’s left-wing base, who largely feel fed up with the party’s incremental approach of making small tweaks here and there. Democratic socialism, as practiced in today’s America, is still essentially incrementalism, but they’re much bigger increments.
"Such a model works well in places like #Finland, #Iceland, and #Denmark. These countries have high taxes, but they get far more out of them than we do. As a result they are consistently ranked as the happiest countries on Earth, with excellent numbers for education, homelessness, poverty, healthcare, life expectancy, and infant mortality—all areas in which the US, with its profit-first approach to every problem, is lagging behind.
"#HighTaxes and a mixed economy also once worked well in the #UnitedStates. We dug ourselves out of the #GreatDepression with the #NewDeal. Government programs brought electricity to rural areas and established safety nets and Social Security. Our middle class boomed after World War II, when taxes were the highest they’ve ever been.
"#Republicans and #BigBusiness called that #socialism, too. They even conspired to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Now, faced with another socialist menace, they’re playing just as dirty."
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/democratic-socialism-compromise#TaxTheRich #WealthTax #DSA #RedScare #USPol #WorldPol #CorporateColonialism #EpsteinClass
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WestJet Flight Attendants Are Ready To Make History
https://www.readthemaple.com/westjet-flight-attendants-are-ready-to-make-history/
By overwhelmingly voting to strike, the workers may finally force an airline to take the issue of unpaid work seriously.
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https://www.tumblr.com/thesociologicalcinema/653901154601828352
Where the real crime is at
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Foreign workers say they were paid less than $2 an hour to build US consulate in Milan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b02gf2Z8QeQ #USpol #WageTheft #Alabama #Italy
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AN update on #BHP #WageTheft and Fraud allegations and #Court proceedings. Big #money trying to tie everything up tight to prevent #PublicDisclosure. I wonder why? (Rhetorical)Read it here before BHP’s #Silks get it take down. Quick…
@DavidPenington
https://michaelwest.com.au/bhp-threatens-to-pursue-journalist-and-coal-miner-for-costs-in-court-case-it-brought/#Litigation #ClassWar #FreePress #ThisIsJournalism #ShellCompanies #Fraud
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@DavidPenington
Bugger. Must have been taken down by Court Order. BHP wins this round. Looks like money (use of #Silks) beats free-press again, as the author foresaw. It may have been archived somewhere, but that’s beyond my paygrade. The article was very specific about the #Fraud and #WageTheft perpetrated by BHP and its associates. Ah, well, we’ll get to know all about it when the case is adjudicated in the highest Court of the land, because with billions of $$ at stake, you can bet BHP will appeal every judgement along the way. #FuckTheRich -
Here we go… this is what big #Corporations and their associated #Workforce sub-contracting is all about. #Fleecing #Workers and walking away from #DutyOfCare using #LegalAttactDogs and flooding the courts with legal counters backed up with ample funding to drown out #Litigation (There are new laws — anti SLAPP? — in the UK to prevent this from happening, but not here) and out-spend legitimate lawsuits. Laws to protect the wealthy and control everyone else.
“This has all the hallmarks of strategic litigation for commercial advantage. BHP, with its army of hundreds of PR staff, refused to respond to repeated approaches from Michael West Media. Yet they were lightning fast to sue. They’re weaponising our public courts — funded by taxpayers — to silence a simple enquiry into potential systemic wage theft. All while pocketing around $622 million a year in taxpayer-funded diesel fuel tax credits.”
https://www.boganintel.com/p/bhp-tries-to-bury-114-billion-wage
#LegalFraud #StateCapture #WorkforceProviders #ClassWar #AusPol #BHP #WageTheft #MichealWestMedia #TaxRorts #PublicFUndingPrivateEnterprises #RunawayCapitalism #Fraud #CulpableBehaviour
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Former employee sues French Laundry for wage theft. Upscale eatery calls lawsuit ‘frivolous’
The French L…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #FineDining #Frenchfinedining #behalf #beteta #civilpenalty #formeremployee #francais #france #French #frenchlaundry #lastweek #law #lawsuit #otheremployee #otherlaborlawviolation #restaurant #suit #upscaleeatery #wagetheft #worker
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2666149/former-employee-sues-french-laundry-for-wage-theft-upscale-eatery-calls-lawsuit-frivolous/ -
Former employee sues French Laundry for wage theft. Upscale eatery calls lawsuit ‘frivolous’ https://www.diningandcooking.com/2666149/former-employee-sues-french-laundry-for-wage-theft-upscale-eatery-calls-lawsuit-frivolous/ #behalf #beteta #CivilPenalty #FineDining #FormerEmployee #francais #france #French #FrenchFineDining #FrenchLaundry #LastWeek #law #lawsuit #OtherEmployee #OtherLaborLawViolation #restaurant #suit #UpscaleEatery #WageTheft #worker
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Cat posters are now used for SOCIALIST ACTIVISM
#meme #funny #memes #cat #cats #socialism #capitalism #work #antiwork #wage #wagetheft #politics #uspol
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He Went After Trump. Now He’s Going After Bad Bosses. -
https://documentedny.com/2026/05/08/alvin-bragg-wage-theft-worker-protection-unit/
> Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Worker Protection Unit is treating wage theft as a crime.
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Latina Caller’s Pain Is Real—But Trump’s Immigration Cruelty Solves Nothing
Fraud harmed one family, but mass deportation harms millions. Here’s the real immigration solution America ignores.
#EconomicJustice #fraud #ICE #identityTheft #immigration #laborRights #LatinoVoters #MedicareFraud #Politics #ProgressivePolitics #SocialSecurity #Trump #undocumentedImmigrants #wageTheft #workersRights https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oTQ -
How Australians are feeling about wage theft and other dark business practices:
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@Elizafox FWIW, the psychology behind wage discrimination is pretty weird.
A lot of people believe wage-paying to not be a side of a commercial transaction, as the capitalism's official doctrine says, but funding of a lifestyle "appropriate" to the labourer's social standing. And at that point, all the sexist and classist ideas about what kind of people "deserve" what levels of living come in. Oftentimes, #WageTheft is "justified" by the same mechanism: since laws require paying a Designated Poverty-Deserving Person(tm) more than poverty wage, a manager believes the laws to be wrong and deserving to be ignored. You never see a major company's CEO's wage being thieved: #Patriarchy's ideas about a CEO's expected lifestyle say that he [sic] deserves everything that he can get.
Authoritarian ideologies don't just do "It's impossible to do X, therefore it's very important to harshly punish everybody who does X", they also go "Inequity happens naturally, theferore we must work hard to ensure that inequity happens".
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GrubHub "outsourced" delivery work to skirt NYC's worker protection laws.
I'd love to see food businesses having deliveristas as direct employees again.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Tom5V75Ek_E #CorporateCrimes #WageTheft #BikeTooter #NYC
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53+ years of #wagetheft Unfair
“Junior pay rates" applied to people below the age of 21, meaning 18-year-olds were paid 70 per cent of the award rate, 80 per cent for 19-year-olds and 90 per cent for 20-year-olds.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-31/fair-work-comission-junior-pay-rates-retail-fast-food/106514948(Notes:
1973, Australia’s voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 by the Labor Government.
1 July 2025, National Minimum Wage $24.95 per hour or $948 per week.)Context:
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People insisting it's normal to do work for a company without being paid for it is just wild to me. People literally arguing against their own interests out of pure ignorance.
In the US this is covered by the #FairLaborStandardsAct (#FLSA) which is extremely simple when defining what's considered on-the-job work. If it is mandatory, work-related, and for the benefit of the company, then it is on-the-job work and you should be paid for the time.
Coordinating with IT on what device they're going to ship you? That's on-the-job work.
Driving to a job site that is not your main office? That's on-the-job work.
Meeting with a client for lunch to discuss your latest deliverable? That's on-the-job work.
Know your rights, folks. #WageTheft is the top form of theft in the US by a wide margin
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AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpoCzQ-va94How to further scam people out of a decent salary.
