IWJ in the Media
September 2, 2010
Ten Things the Past Can Teach Us TodayThe Arise Chicago Worker Center, a member of IWJ's national network of worker centers, is mentioned in this piece.
August 5, 2010
Why Don't Americans Have Longer Vacations? Explaining the gap between Europe and the U.S., for better or worse.
August 2, 2010
Seek Interfaith Justice This Labor Day Weekend!Source: Shalom Rav: A Blog by Rabbi Brant Rosen
July 30, 2010
Protests Of Arizona Immigration Law Lead To ArrestsThis story quotes Dan Moore of the Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center (an IWJ affiliate), though without mentioning the Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center by name (alas).
July 30, 2010
AZ immigration-law protests lead to arrests, street closuresThis article quotes Noel Andersen, an organizer with the Arizona Interfaith Alliance for Worker Justice (IWJ's affiliate in Phoenix), but only identifies him as a ministry intern at Good Shepherd United Church of Christ in Sahuarita.
July 29, 2010
Wage Theft by Employers Surging in Wake of Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Law, Even as Judge Blocks Implementation of Key Provisions
July 29, 2010
Religious groups, who claimed a major victory in the ruling, vow to press on (in "Thursday’s roundup")
July 28, 2010
Judge blocks Ariz. law; faith leaders, Senate Democrats respondSource: Associated Baptist Press
July 28, 2010
Arizona vive tensa calma en víspera puesta en vigor de ley sobre inmigraciónSource: EFE News Services
July 26, 2010
From Michael Moore & Friends Blog: Report Finds that Ascension Health Has Strayed from its Mission
July 21, 2010
Review of A Worker Justice Reader: Essential Writings on Religion and Labor by Interfaith Worker Justice
July 9, 2010
Presbyterians join Arizona boycott because of immigration lawSource: Louisville Courier-Journal
June 13, 2010
Daughter of illegal immigrants struggles against the odds to graduate from Huron High SchoolSource: AnnArbor.com
A moving profile of Jasmine Franco, a part-time organizer with the Washtenaw County Worker Center (http://workercenter.org/), an IWJ affiliate.
May 26, 2010
Worker Justice ReaderSource: RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY: A Group Blog on American Religious History and Culture
May 20, 2010
Exploited immigrants, unaware of labor laws, afraid to fight mistreatmentSource: Medill Reports
February 15, 2010
Wage Theft: A Radio Interview with IWJ Executive Director Kim BoboSource: KBOO Community Radio - Portland, Oregon
October 14, 2009
The GOP vs. Labor Law: Why Republicans are blocking the nomination of Patricia Smith
September 21, 2009
Building a Better Austin from BelowFrom the September/October 2009 issue of Dollars & Sense, an article on the Workers Defense Project / Proyecto Defensa Laboral in Austin, Texas -- a member of IWJ's national network of worker centers.
September 13, 2009
Rhode Island’s Fuerza Laboral pursues employers who don’t pay their workersSource: Providence Journal
September 4, 2009
Program links social justice with religion on Labor Day weekendSource: Chi-Town Daily News
August 28, 2009
Wage theft reports on the riseSource: Cincinnati Enquirer
This article spotlights the work of the Cincinnati Interfaith Workers' Center, IWJ's affiliate in Cincinnati.
August 17, 2009
Bad economy sparks more complaints of wage theftA story about wage theft that quotes IWJ public policy director Ted Smukler and several members of IWJ's national network of worker centers and religion-labor affiliates.
July 31, 2009
Important Anti-Wage Theft legislation Introduced in CongressIWJ Public Policy Director Ted Smukler on new national legislation to prevent wage theft.
July 30, 2009
A Brief Review of Wage Theft in America"The single largest category of larceny in the United States each year is the billions of dollars stolen from workers by failing to pay them the legal minimum wage, misclassifying them as independent contractors to avoid paying for overtime or the employer share of payroll taxes, or other tactics. Yet, this corporate crime goes largely unpunished. The director of Interfaith Worker Justice documents this abuse and describes in detail what individuals, community organizations, religious groups, and the Obama administration can do about it."
July 8, 2009
The pope and unionsIWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo responds to an article in the Chicago Tribune.
June 22, 2009
Blacks and Latinos have shared experiences in post-Katrina N.O.Source: The Louisiana Weekly
May 18, 2009
Wage theft victims fight for rightsSource: Marketplace - American Public Media
A segment about wage theft on the public radio program Marketplace, featuring an interview with IWJ Executive Editor Kim Bobo.
May 12, 2009
Employers Face Tougher Enforcement of Wage and Hour LawsIWJ Public Policy Director Ted Smukler quoted in The Kiplinger Letter
May 11, 2009
Online Forum on Wage Theft in AmericaThe week of May 11-15, the TPM Café Book Club is hosting a running discussion of IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo's Wage Theft in America, with a distinguished ensemble of economists, journalists, and policy experts offering commentary on the book.
May 1, 2009
All in a Day’s Pay: Conversations with Chicago’s Day LaborersAn interview with Sergio Zetina, an active member of IWJ affiliate ARISE Chicago (www.arisechicago.org)
April 27, 2009
God's Work: What can faith-based activism do for labor?An essay in the May/June Boston Review on Kim Bobo's Wage Theft in America and how IWJ's work could influence the Solis Department of Labor.
April 20, 2009
One Nation, off the ClockA review of IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo's Wage Theft in America in the Spring issue of Dissent (web version available in full to Dissent subscribers only -- click here for PDF).
April 15, 2009
New-Fashioned Unions: A Profile of Arise ChicagoIWJ's Chicago affiliate (formerly the Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues)
April 10, 2009
Mugged by the BossA review of IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo's book Wage Theft in America by New York Times labor and workplace reporter Steven Greenhouse (PDF).
April 8, 2009
Not Our DepartmentChris Hayes of The Nation has a piece in the magazine's April 27 issue on the GAO's alarming report on wage theft, in which he quotes IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo. Alas, the online version contains only the first three paragraphs, with the rest behind a subscriber-only firewall, but the full text appears on IWJ's blog here.
March 25, 2009
Stolen Wages, Stolen Hopes; Gov't Lets Down U.S. Workers, Probe FindsIWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo was interviewed for a segment on wage theft that aired on ABC's Good Morning America. The link above takes you to both the transcript of the segment and the video.
March 18, 2009
Labor must take stand against wage theft: 40-hour fast brings attention to plight of underpaid workersSource: New York Teacher
March 18, 2009
Alternative Break Immersion: Interfaith Worker JusticeSource: The Phoenix (Loyola University Chicago student newspaper)
A moving personal testimony by a college student who participated in IWJ's Alternative Break Immersion program.
March 10, 2009
Religious Organizations and Faith Groups Working Hard for the Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act
February 13, 2009
Woman crusades against epidemic of wage theftSource: Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Litigation
February 11, 2009
Jobs With Justice and the Progressive RevolutionSource: GRITtv with Laura Flanders
IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo discussing her book Wage Theft in America with a roundtable panel on GRITtv with Laura Flanders
February 5, 2009
Expert: education key to fair wagesSource: Arizona State University Campus Newspaper
January 28, 2009
Labor Bill Could Have Big Impact in IllinoisIWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo on the Chicago Public Radio program City Room making the case for the Employee Free Choice Act (both transcript and audio available). For more IWJ resources on the Employee Free Choice Act -- including perspectives from religious leaders and a guide to organizing a delegation to your Senator -- click here
January 27, 2009
The Future of Labor OrganizingSource: City Voices podcast -- Community Media Workshop & WNUA in Chicago
An interview recorded on January 13th on Chicago's WNUA, featuring IWJ Organizing Director Renaye Manley
January 8, 2009
Bobo's Blueprint for Boosting Economic JusticeSource: BeyondChron.org
A review of IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo's book Wage Theft in America by Randy Shaw, author of Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century.
January 7, 2009
Author interview with Kim Bobo10 Questions & Answers with IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo about her book Wage Theft in America
January 2, 2009
What enforcement strategy?A Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post by IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo in response to a dubiously credulous article on outgoing Labor Secretary Elaine Chao
December 30, 2008
Tom Colicchio: Top Chef or Top (Wage) Thief?Source: Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate: An Economist’s Travelogue
How are the TV show Top Chef and IWJ's wage theft campaign related? Read this interesting blog post to find out.
December 22, 2008
Wage Theft Is Widespread In U.S. - Workers' Centers Fighting ItBlog post based on an interview with IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo about her book Wage Theft in America
December 22, 2008
"Spiritual Stimulus Package" for KentuckiansA Public News Service report on IWJ's "Spiritual Stimulus Package"
December 19, 2008
A Spiritual Stimulus PackageDave Belden, Managing Editor of Tikkun magazine, on IWJ's new toolkit of resources for congregations and faith communities coping with unemployment and the economic crisis.
December 16, 2008
Is the GOP Risking the Economy to Win the PR War Against Unions?An excellent Huffington Post piece on the union-bashing campaign currently underway in the media. IWJ executive director Kim Bobo is mentioned about a third of the way in.
December 9, 2008
Helping Workers NowThe Nation cites IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo in discussing two new Center for American Progress reports on the need for the Department of Labor to beef up its enforcement of labor laws.
December 3, 2008
Hurricane Ike cleanup workers report wage theftHundreds of workers hired to clean up debris, repair damaged roofs and restore flood-soaked buildings say they were robbed of wages, stranded with nowhere to stay and injured on the job.
December 3, 2008
Championing the rights of workersThe Chicago Reporter recently spoke with Bobo to talk about her work.
December 2, 2008
Nonprofit helping Ike workers recover wagesHouston Interfaith Worker Justice Center says that lack of payment for hourly workers is often found in construction trade.
November 25, 2008
Wage Theft in America: A Crisis We Can SolveAFL-CIO Now senior writer James Parks interviews IWJ executive director Kim Bobo about her book Wage Theft in America.
November 25, 2008
Sweet and SourWorkers allege bakery owner still owes them thousands in back pay. -Chicago Journal
November 20, 2008
Obama must crack down on wage theftColumnist Errol Louis discusses IWJ executive director Kim Bobo's book Wage Theft in America in his New York Daily News column.
November 17, 2008
Wage Theft: A National EpidemicJames Parks discusses IWJ executive director Kim Bobo's book Wage Theft in America on the AFL-CIO's blog.
November 14, 2008
Wage Theft ExposedIsaiah J. Poole, executive editor of the Campaign for America's Future blog/website/forum/clearinghouse ourfuture.org, interviews IWJ executive director Kim Bobo about her book Wage Theft in America in this video podcast.
November 13, 2008
The Hidden Crime WaveBen Garlock reports on the November 12 press conference at the U.S. Department of Labor about IWJ executive director Kim Bobo's book Wage Theft in America for UNION CITY, the e-zine of the Metropolitan Washington Council (Central Labor Council) of the AFL-CIO.
November 11, 2008
Interview: Kim Bobo On How Billions Are Stolen From WorkersMackenzie Baris of DC Jobs with Justice - Interfaith Worker Justice of Greater Washington interviews IWJ executive director Kim Bobo about her book Wage Theft in America.
October 25, 2008
Activist upholds battle on wagesActivist upholds battle on wages Social activist Kim Bobo knows she has a cause that the American public can support. First, though, she needs a chance to explain it to them. Bobo, the founder and executive director of the Chicago-based Interfaith Worker Justice organization, will be in Des Moines today at the 2008 Ecumenical Poverty Summit to talk about wage theft as part of the broader issue of how communities, specifically the faith community, can mobilize around social justice issues.-Des Moines Register
October 16, 2008
Vote Your Values 2008: A Guide for Faith-Based VotersIt's not what you think. The best evidence that Obama has broken the GOP hold on the meaning of "faith-based" came today from the organization Interfaith Worker Justice, a "nonprofit, nonpartisan religious organization that educates and mobilizes the religious people of all faiths in the United States on issues important to working people" -Daily Kos
September 20, 2008
Protesting PulteConstruction workers for one of the largest developers in the United States, Pulte Homes, are being forced to work for substandard wages and in dangerous conditions, according to a May report by Chicago-based Interfaith Worker Justice -Multinational Monitor
September 2, 2008
Faith-based community organizers upset by Palin putdown"Contrary to Palin's disparaging remarks, organizers have major responsibilities for creating policy changes. Feeding the hungry and housing the homeless are clearly responsibilities of people of faith. We do that by providing food and shelter and more importantly, by organizing to address the causes of injustice and inequity which lead to hunger and homelessness," said Kim Bobo, Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, a congregation-based community organization in Chicago. -Reuters
August 29, 2008
Group eyes revival of 'Labor Day Sundays'American houses of worship should commemorate Labor Day weekend not as the last hurrah of the summer but as a time to celebrate the "sacred link between faith, work and justice," says a national social justice advocate.
August 29, 2008
Sermons to tackle labor issuesConnecting his Jewish faith with his support for workers' rights, Ted Smukler sees the beginnings of the labor movement in the Old Testament.
July 18, 2008
Union Man: Whither the Labor Department under ObamaTuesday's House labor hearing on "Wage Theft" was supposed to be pretty lively. Left-wing advocacy groups had brought grievances against the Bush Department of Labor to the sympathetic chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor, Rep. George Miller (D., Calif.). -National Review Online
