#wagetheft — Public Fediverse posts

the biggest shoplifters have payroll departments

https://tacobout.online/2026/09/04/biggest-shoplifters-have-payroll-departments/

https://www.alojapan.com/1534933/owner-of-sushi-restaurant-in-philadelphia-stole-1-million-from-over-200-workers/ Owner of sushi restaurant in Philadelphia stole $1 million from over 200 workers #DepartmentOfLabor #JapaneseRestaurant #JapaneseRestaurantsInPennsylvania #OsakaJapan #Pennsylvania #philadelphia #WageTheft The owner of Osaka Japan, a sushi restaurant located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, stole almost $1 million in compensation from 201 workers. Four years after the Department of Labor (DOL) settled the case in court, workers still have not r

https://www.alojapan.com/1534933/owner-of-sushi-restaurant-in-philadelphia-stole-1-million-from-over-200-workers/ Owner of sushi restaurant in Philadelphia stole $1 million from over 200 workers #DepartmentOfLabor #JapaneseRestaurant #JapaneseRestaurantsInPennsylvania #OsakaJapan #Pennsylvania #philadelphia #WageTheft The owner of Osaka Japan, a sushi restaurant located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, stole almost $1 million in compensation from 201 workers. Four years after the Department of Labor (DOL) settled the case in court, workers still have not r

#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

@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".

#RWA #SDO #DoubleHigh

AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpoCzQ-va94

How to further scam people out of a decent salary.

#AI #Crypto #AITokens #WageTheft #Capitalism

According to the community, wage theft is systematic. The labor board ignores wage theft from amazon. Amazon is stealing time from thousands of employees. Our government does nothing Anyone shocked? #work #theft #money #amazon #fraud #wagetheft #systematic #job #lawyer #stupid #rich #noncompliance

Why isn't this considered wage theft? "“All Common Stock will be canceled for no consideration and all Options will be canceled and extinguished for no consideration,” "

Apparently employees were given stock options, and were encouraged to buy stock - ALL shares held by employees were Common Stock. When Private Equity bought the company, the shares were declared worthless (of course the the CEO, etc all will receive payouts).

https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/philz-coffee-private-equity-sell/

Creative #WageTheft & #BrokenPromises brought to you by #PrivateEquity

For employees, tipping means a ridiculous $2.13 per hour. $2.13!!!
For employers, tipping is a GRIFT routinely used for #WageTheft.
For consumers, tipping is a TRICK that hides the true price tag.
Furthermore it's a TAX on politeness. Being nice directly costs more money than being an asshole. Why should a civilization want that?
Most of the world has abandoned the tipped wage as the plutocratic scam it is.
Support #OneFairWage!
https://OneFairWage.site