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Awake Bushwick
Illegal wages, discrimination, harassment, violation of worker rights, and human rights abuses. These words describe the grim conditions for workers employed in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn , New York Knickerbocker Avenue Knickerbocker Avenue
Awake Bushwick
Union Campaign Demands Fair Wages, Benefits
for Immigrant Retail Workers
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The RWDSU UFCW and Make the Road by Walking exposed the injustice and abuse of worker rights and human rights in a joint report called “Street of Shame.” The report describes how employees in one shop “not only have to suffer minimum wage and overtime violations, but also confront sexual and physical abuse from the owner.” In other shops, workers put in 12-hour days, six days a week, and only earn between $320 and $330 a week.
Hundreds of retail workers, RWDSU members, consumers, students, community and religious organizations and politicians have marched to demand an end to poverty wages and abusive working conditions in the retail shops. Community pressure, demonstrations, and legal action has already prompted some employers on |
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