Grocery Store Workers Rally in Brooklyn for Overtime Pay, Fight Wage Theft

Multimedia photo essay from a community protest of a local grocery's exploitative treatment of its workers.

 

 Wage theft--the systemic underpayment or denial of payment owed to workers--is a growing problem, and immigrant workers, whose English is often not perfect, are especially at risk. But with the help of community organizations, some workers are finding a way to fight back--and are winning victories. 

This weekend, New York Communities for Change and residents of the Kensington community in Brooklyn, New York, rallied outside of the Golden Farm supermarket on Church Avenue in support of the immigrant store employees, who are organizing for a union contract and have sued for unpaid back wages--they were being paid $400 for a 70-plus hour work week, well below the minimum wage.    READ MORE