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...Construction Policy Research Center, a subgroup of the Labor and Worklife Program which is a joint venture between the Law School and the School of Public Health, penned the report entitled “The Social and Economic Costs of Employee Misclassification in Construction” and released it on Monday...
...report found that when construction employers misclassified workers, they tended to do so for a large part of their workforce. Elaine Bernard, executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program, said that among firms that misclassified workers, an average of 48 percent of employees were treated as independent contractors even though they were actually employees...
Bernard said that the Labor and Worklife Program can now decide to formulate public policy recommendations, focus on similar reports in other industries, or try to analyze the problem in other states. The report recommends that a similar study be performed to analyze state tax returns, currently under the control of the Massachusetts Department of Revenue...
...Mart campaign would call on the best instincts of the progressive movement. It would force progressives to focus their energies on the poorest of the working poor: the people who most need help and have the fewest supporters. And it would help the poorest of the poor help themselves. Labor laws are important, but they are no substitute for a strong union that can fight for the real interests of workers. A union at Wal-Mart would do more than any social welfare program to help low wage workers, because it would give the workers themselves the power to decide...
Progressives generally want to use the power of government to help the powerless. This focus has led many progressives into electoral politics. But good elected officials and good policies only happen when the people demand them. As the labor movement has declined, the working poor have lost the organ that allowed them to express their voice. They have been unable to elect progressive politicians, and they have been unable to hold politicians accountable. While corporations hire more lobbyists to represent them, a smaller and smaller slice of working Americans have any organized body representing their interests...