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...weeks later, on that year's Floating Film Festival, he brought Mary into a Q&A on the book, again championing her cause (and on karaoke night sang "The Union Maid" in her honor). He volunteered to testify for Mary in the National Labor Relations Board trial that followed; and when he was ready to issue a second volume of Great Movies, he asked Mary again to do the photo selection, though she was no longer in charge of a picture archive. It happens that, five years later, the Museum has reopened in much larger quarters, but its 4 million...
More than 5 million people work in restaurants nationwide, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, including more than two million waiters and waitresses, two million line cooks and food preparers, and half a million dishwashers. About two-thirds of restaurant workers are foreign born, and increasingly, they're from Central and South America. The Brennan Center Study, which drew on extensive worker interviews, industry publications, prior studies and data on government enforcement efforts, concludes that many restaurant workers earn less than the minimum wage. Tips are often arbitrarily confiscated, overtime pay is rare, and wage deductions for things like...
...Department of Labor is aware of the violations," says New York State Department of Labor Commissioner Patricia Smith, who was appointed in December of 2006. "We're going to have broader enforcement. We're going to have more proactive enforcement...
...they come from countries where the wages are very low, so even if they are making less than minimum wage, they're making more than they would be at home," Smith says. So they're reluctant to protest conditions set by employers. In May, the New York State Labor Department established the Bureau of Immigrant Workers' Rights to make sure immigrant workers aren't treated differently from those born in the United States...
...office alone is unlikely to remedy the broader problem of underpaid, undervalued work in urban restaurants. "They are not isolated, short-lived cases of exploitation at the fringe of the city's economy," writes Bernhardt in the report. "Instead, the systematic violation of our country's core employment and labor laws ... is threatening to become a way of doing business for unscrupulous employers. And yet from the standpoint of public policy, these jobs - and the workers who hold them - are too often off the radar screen...