TBF, every time some corpo fuckstick parrots “theft”, I’m reminded that none of them want any of us to dig into the age-old tradition of wage theft. That’s theft, and what they’re constantly whinging about plainly isn’t.
"Every year in this country (US), workers lose more money to wage theft than is lost to all forms of property crime (robberies, burglaries, larceny and motor vehicle theft) combined. Each year, well over $15 billion is stolen from workers by their employers; each year, less than 3% of that total is recovered for those same workers.
Employers steal their workers’ wages in a variety of ways:
Paying less than the minimum wage
Not paying overtime or misclassifying workers as “exempt” from overtime pay
Not paying workers for all hours worked
Taking illegal deductions from workers’ paychecks
Not paying the prevailing wage in government contracting
Automatically deducting for breaks that workers don’t get
TBF, every time some corpo fuckstick parrots “theft”, I’m reminded that none of them want any of us to dig into the age-old tradition of wage theft. That’s theft, and what they’re constantly whinging about plainly isn’t.
"Every year in this country (US), workers lose more money to wage theft than is lost to all forms of property crime (robberies, burglaries, larceny and motor vehicle theft) combined. Each year, well over $15 billion is stolen from workers by their employers; each year, less than 3% of that total is recovered for those same workers.
Employers steal their workers’ wages in a variety of ways:
(More here.)
p.s. In 2025, that “$15 billion” was actually $50 billion+. 🤢🤕