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Workers Win $4,237 from Popular Georgetown Restaurants
On Wednesday, February 6, three former workers of two popular restaurants in Georgetown won a combined $4,237 in unpaid wages. After many months of struggling for their pay, the workers returned to the restaurant with more than 50 allies from the community, who stood...
Patient Protection Act Proposed for DC Hospitals
Patient Protection Act Proposed for DC Hospitals Survey: 57% of District Hospital Nurses Cite Inadequate Staffing Registered nurses joined with District of Columbia Council members and community supporters in a press conference today to announce the introduction of...
No matter what you call it, it’s still wage theft.
Guest Blog Post from Barbra A. Kavanaugh December 4, 2012 Everyone knows what theft is, but I am constantly surprised by how few people know what “wage theft” is. Simply put, wage theft is when employers refuse to pay employees the wages they have earned, either by...
TOXIC EXPOSURE!
Read TOXIC EXPOSURE, a report culiminated by a yearlong undercover investigation into the practices of the asbestos abatement industry in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. It exposes an industry that routinely violates the law, harms its employees, and fails...
Public Justice Center Lawsuit Seeks Wage Justice for Staffing Agency Employees
Press Release: October 24, 2012 Contact: Sally Dworak-Fisher or Alexandra Rosenblatt at 410-625-9409 Silver Spring, MD – The Public Justice Center has filed suit on behalf of employees of Bethesda-based staffing agency WMS Solutions, LLC to recover the wages that the...
Training on the Economics of the 1%
On Saturday, November 10th, DC JwJ joined with the DC Democratic Socialists of America (DC DSA) to offer a free training for JwJ coalition members called the GET UP (Grassroots Economics Training for Understanding and Power) Project. Trainers Bill Barclay and Peg...
D.C. Council: Fix the Compensation System for Injured Public Workers
Over 2,000 injured D.C. government employees go through the Public Sector Workers Compensation Program each year. Disability benefits are intended to give injured government workers financial security when injured on the job and help them pay their medical care, rent,...
Paid Sick Days For All
Imagine that you work in a restaurant to support your family. One day you wake up feeling awful. Lying in bed, you realize that if you don't go to work, you're not going to be able to pay the rent. Even worse, imagine that you are healthy, but your young child is...
Introduced Bill – Protecting Injured Government Workers’ Act of 2012
____________________________ Councilmember Michael A. BrownA BILLIN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIACouncilmember ____________________________ introduced the following bill, which was referred to the Committee on...
Protecting Injured Government Workers Act of 2012
Over 2,000 injured D.C. government employees go through the Public Sector Workers Compensation Program each year. These benefits are intended to give injured government workers financial security when injured on the job and help them pay for their medical care, rent...
EVENTS
Don’t Miss It! Free Health Screening and Health Disparities Discussion
Get checked, get healthy. The Registered Nurse Response Network and the Metropolitan Washington Public Health Association will offer a free health screening July 31, 2014, at 6:30 PM at the Dorothy Height/Benning Library at 3935 Benning Rd NE. There will be a...
Historic Day! Anti-Wage Theft Law and Ban the Box Passed in the DC Council
On Monday, July 14th, the D.C. Council voted on two key pieces of legislation that will strengthen rights for all workers in DC. The Fair Criminal Records Screening Act (also known as “Ban the Box”) will begin to remove barriers to gainful employment for returning...
July 1 Celebration: Press Coverage!
On July 1st the coalition of workers, business owners, faith leaders, labor organizations and community groups came together to celebrate the increase in the minimum wage and the extended legislation of paid sick days that they worked so hard to pass through the City...