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Worker Justice
People expect to work hard to make ends meet and achieve their long
term financial goals, but all too often, the willingness to work hard
isn't enough. Millions of people in the United States work permanent,
temporary, and part-time jobs for low pay with no benefits.
Particularly for people with limited skills or perhaps only a High
School Diploma, but even for people with additional skills and
credentials beyond High School, the opportunity to find stable
employment that offers a salary and benefits sufficient to support a
family is growing more and more limited. And the proliferation of low
wage jobs that keep workers in poverty exerts a gravitational pull on
the labor market as a whole and contributes to the general decline in
income and economic security for all workers.
Even worse, too many employers violate the most basic worker
protections provided by federal and state laws concerning workplace
health and safety, minimum wages and overtime pay, and workplace
harassment and discrimination. And too often, the workers affected are
primarily people of color—native born and immigrant.
