Building Bridges Radio: Unregulated Work in the Global City
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Unregulated Work in the Global City with Annette Bernhardt, Deputy Dir. of the Justice Program, The Brennan Center
A recent study by the Brennan Center's Economic Justice Project, details the systemic violation of federal, state & local labor law which is increasingly the way of doing business in N.Y.C. Over a wide range of industries,employers pay less than the minimum wage, and sometimes nothing at all; deny overtime for 60-hour weeks, routinely ignore vital health and safety regulations even after injuries occur; and workers are subject to blatant discrimination, and retaliated against for speaking up or trying to organize. ************************* Domestic workers United with Ai-jen Poo - Lead Organizer
Building on the overall study by Annettee Bernhardt, Ai-jen Poo from Domestic Workers United both brings her on the ground report of working conditons and organizing activity by domestic workers while situating their struggle in the context of the new global economy. Domestic Workers United is an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African nannies, house-keepers, and elderly caregivers in New York, organizing for power, respect, fair labor standards and to help build a movement to end exploitation and oppression for all. ******************************************** for more information contact Ken Nash - knash@igc.orgBuilding Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI, 99.5 FM in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from 7-8pm EST and is streamed, archived and pod cast at www.wbai.org Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over: WUOW - Oneonta, N.Y. WWUH, - West Hartford, CT WVJW- Benwood, WV KRFP, Moscow, ID KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA WXOJ, Northampton, MA KSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon WKNH ,Keene, NH CKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado WRPI, Troy, New York WNRB, Wausau, KRBS, Oroville, CA Radio Veronica,West Point, PA WHLD, Buffalo, NY Radio Free Olympia,Olympia,WA KQRP Salida, California East Hill Radio, Snoqualmie, WA as well as internet stations: The Journey Radio WXXE Seattle Radical Radio Radio for Peace International Radio Labourstart AmericanFM.org RadioDriftless.org Grateful Dead Public Radio ======================================== For archived Building Bridges National Programs go to www.buildingbridgesradio.org
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Thank you Mr.Knash for
Thank you Mr.Knash for getting the word out on this most important report. As Ed Ott, director of the NYC Central Labor Council, explained a copy should be on the bookshelf in every union hall across the country. I made sure I got a few to my officers.you can read the report at the Brennan Center website, and they were more than happy to send me 5 copies for myself and my union hall when I shot them an e-mail and asked.
This has become one of the greatest sources when I write. It was easy to say the things beforehand, but being able to point back to a source has proven invaluable. This along with the Fiscal Policy Institutes (warning PDF) Building up New York, Tearing Down Job Quality: Taxpayer impact of worsening employment practices in the New York City construction industry, which I have just called to get a few hard copies if available, strengthen our concerns and highlight the fight in which the honest contractors, union and otherwise must compete on the unfair playing field when bidding a job, how the bad contractors are robbing the city and state and how the employment practices they chose to use are sending job conditions for undocumented and/or misclassified construction workers into deteriorated job state not seen since the early 1900's. We are at the verge of total decline, with agencies which are supposed to be monitoring these infractions understaffed, underfunded and/or unwilling to address the problems. A must read section is (pg.31) policy enablers - that is who an organized front of Labor, community and the public at large need to go after and send a strong message that the American people will not continue to allow this to happen. How can we complain about China sweatshops when it is happening right here in our own country. Let it be known that I have just coined a phrase "Sweetshop Construction". Now theres a ear grabber.
Again thank you and Building Bridges Radio for getting the word out and all that you do. I am listening to it now, fantastic interview with Annette Bernhardt. "violations come in bundles", "public policy has played a roll in allowing this to happen".
Unregulated Work In The Global City - Full PDF
Building Up New York, Tearing Down Job Quality: Taxpayer Impact of Worsening Employment Practices in the New York City Construction Industry - Full PDF