Jeulia GoldJun 4, 2023
Qasim Rashid, Esq.

Did you know: The annual cost of burglary, robbery, larceny, & auto theft COMBINED is $14B—but the annual cost of wage theft by employers exploiting workers is $50B?

Remember this when media or politicians cite crime but ignore the most costly crime of all—corporate wage theft.

Jun 4, 2023 at 2:35amWeb
Show threadQasim Rashid, Esq.Jun 4, 2023

Receipts: "According to the Economic Policy Institute, wage theft costs U.S. workers as much as $50 billion per year — a number far higher than all robberies, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts combined."

https://inthesetimes.com/article/wage-theft-union-labor-biden-iupat#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Economic%20Policy,and%20motor%20vehicle%20thefts%20combined

Employers Steal Up to $50 Billion From Workers Every Year. It’s Time to Reclaim It.

A recent victory over wage theft shows what workers everywhere need to claw back their stolen pay—support, resources and enforcement.

In These Times
Show threadJosJun 4, 2023
@QasimRashid for those in #Toronto having wages stolen, just heard a talk from Deena Ladd, who fights for low wage workers (often #immigrants and racialized) with the #Workers Action Centre (in case someone here needs them!)
Show threadKevin RussellJun 4, 2023

@QasimRashid

Now immediately ask yourself if billionaires (who took your wages) deserve to pay taxes fairly, robustly, fulsomely.

And after remembering they don't clean after themselves?

Show threadNimbusJun 4, 2023

@QasimRashid

Wow! @FoxNews needs to get on this.

Show thread-rbJun 4, 2023
@QasimRashid it would be helpful if you posted your sources. Especially since 83.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Show threadAngry* Atheist Truck DriverJun 4, 2023
@dashrb @QasimRashid I, too, would like to see the citations used to gather this information. If these numbers are true then we need to draw WAY more attention to them.
Show threadDB SchweinJun 4, 2023

@dashrb @QasimRashid
Here's just one of the many. Many. articles on it:

https://www.workingnowandthen.com/blog/wage-theft-the-50-billion-crime-against-workers/

Wage Theft, The $50 Billion Crime Against Workers

Wage theft costs workers billions every year. How do companies get away with stealing from their employees? And how can workers protect their paychecks?

Working Now and Then
Show thread-rbJun 4, 2023

@QasimRashid @deirdrebeth yes! Thank you for helping him.

I enjoy and often boost his posts; also, I often wish he supported his claims directly. Makes his posts more self-reputable.

Show threadDrewpeacockJun 4, 2023
@dashrb @QasimRashid @deirdrebeth Thank you for getting a source for this fact !
Show threadscrambled1839Jun 4, 2023
@QasimRashid didn’t know that now I know.
Show threadLeisureguyJun 4, 2023

@QasimRashid I just read this column — https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/31/caitlin-johnstone-it-rarely-looks-like-this/ — (and watched the videos in it), and it suddenly hit me that the absence of discussion of wage theft in the mainstream media — along with the disproportionate attention to burglary, robbery, larceny, & auto theft — is propaganda. "Don't look at that, look at this." The crimes reported don't involve corporations; the press protects corporations by overlooking much of their misbehavior.

#propaganda #corporateCrime #wageTheft

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Show threadminhtrungJun 4, 2023
@QasimRashid 👍
Show threadFrank CoteJun 4, 2023
@QasimRashid don't forget billionaire tax cheats.
Show threadPensive™️Jun 4, 2023

@QasimRashid
Add to that Asset Forfeiture by LEOs nation-wide ~$1.79 billion last year alone. Best robbery gang ever.

https://www.justice.gov/afms/page/file/1566031/download

Show threadNosirrahSec 🏴‍☠️ guillotine enthusiastJun 4, 2023
@PensiveTM @QasimRashid fucking pigs running wild need to be controlled. Caged, even.
Show threadJose Luis Cabrera SanchezJun 4, 2023
@QasimRashid lo mismo en todo occidente
Show threadMacChoilighJun 4, 2023
@QasimRashid Thanks. There is so much more corporations are doing to screw people and it can only be done with cover from politicians.
Show threadMatthew BrobergJun 4, 2023
@QasimRashid such a powerful point — do you know the source or scope of the data?
Show threadgavinisdie Jun 4, 2023
@QasimRashid they'd probably literally call it "good crime"
Show threadLaura G, Sassy 70’sJun 4, 2023
@QasimRashid I live in Texas. Filed a wage claim form once out of principle and won. And, I quit because I knew I’d be fired for reasons “having absolutely nothing to do with filing the form.” Being married to a high earner, I felt the freedom to do so. As far as I know, none of the other people who could have filed did so. But they probably didn’t have the economic privilege I had at the time.
Show threadMeow.tar.gz  Jun 6, 2023
@QasimRashid I can say this is quite believable because crime overall has grown just a little bit less than proportionately with the population. We just tend to see a disproportionate representation of crime in the media because crime stories drive viewership and viewership drives ad revenue. This heavy bias leads many to falsely believe that crime is a true problem.