An analysis of federal and state databases sheds new light on the prevalence and scale of wage theft in New York restaurants and other industries, placing the total wages stolen in one five-year period at more than $203 million.
The companies were fined hundreds of thousands of dollars and sued repeatedly over shoddy construction and work that destroyed neighbors’ homes. Then, many of them simply disappeared....
Rather than actually supporting auto workers in their strike against billionaire CEOs at the Big Three, GOP officials are instead using the labor action to rail against electric vehicles and stoke conflict with China....