WINNING WORKER JUSTICE
It's hard to imagine a more fundamental right than the right to be paid for your work.
Yet every day in Connecticut, employers break the law in restaurants, construction sites, cleaning, and other low-wage industries, where:
26%
of workers are paid less than the minimum wage to which they are legally entitled
76%
are denied the legally required overtime despite working more than 40 hours
43%
face illegal retaliation — firing or threatening to call immigration — when they complain
60%
of women restaurant workers experience sexual harassment
Without support, most workers put up with abuse.
Filing a complaint can get you fired. It takes the court or Department of Labor months — often years — to recover your wages and damages, if they recover anything at all.
But by organizing together -- combining legal action with community support -- we can win dignity and fair wages.
WE'RE CELEBRATING 17 YEARS
Building grassroots immigrant power to win economic and racial justice
Winning wages & damages
for victims of slavery, wage theft, sexual harassment, and workplace injuries
Suing ICE for civil rights violations
and fighting back after the raids in New Haven in 2007
Passing the Double Damages bill
to increase penalties for wage theft
Freeing kids and parents from ICE detention
and supporting them with a loving community
Stopping deportations
for people like Salma, allowed to re-open her case after a 4-day hunger strike
