Qasim Rashid, Esq.Jun 4, 2023

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.

Frank CheesemanJun 4, 2023
Show threadQasim Rashid, Esq.

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
Jun 4, 2023 at 1:47pmMastodon for iOS
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?