April 2012
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The Brian Lehrer Show: The Road to Minimum Wage
Hilary Klein, lead organizer of Make the Road New York, and Luna Ranjit, executive director of Adhikaar, a Queens-based Nepalese support group, talk about their efforts to organize service workers, like manicurists and car wash attendants, for minimum wage and better working conditions.
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NY1 News: Labor Advocates Demand Improved...
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Car washers, taxi workers, livery cab drivers and union leaders showed up on Manhattan’s West Side Wednesday to put pressure on car wash owners they say are abusing workers.
The campaign is by Workers Aligned for a Sustainable and Healthy New York (WASH NY) and supporters pledged to help meet the car washers’ needs.
The washers say the unfair working...
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Crain's: It's hardly a wash for car-clean kingpin →
City’s largest car-wash chain, the main target of a union campaign that claims workers are cheated, now faces the threat of a boycott by some of its best customers: taxi and limo drivers.
Pressure is mounting on one of the city’s biggest car-wash operators as organizers of a union drive in the niche industry receive pledges from taxi and black-car drivers to support any boycott called...
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NYC Taxi Workers & Black Car Drivers Vow To Clean...
*Taxi Workers Alliance, Machinists Union call upon drivers to boycott carwashes where workers are being abused*
At a press conference this afternoon at the Westside Highway Car Wash, New York City taxi workers and black car drivers announced that they are helping the WASH New York campaign to pressure car wash owners to improve conditions in an industry plagued by rampant wage and hour...
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Tomorrow: NYC Taxi Workers & Black Car Drivers Vow...
*Taxi Workers Alliance, Machinists Union call upon drivers to boycott carwashes where workers are being abused *
April 11, NOON, Westside Highway Car Wash, 638 West 47th Street, New York, NY
WHAT: New York City taxi workers and black car drivers are helping the WASH NY campaign being conducted by Make the Road New York and New York Communities for Change to pressure car wash owners to improve...
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NY1 News: Public Advocate Urges City Agencies To...
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Public Advocate Bill de Blasio wants city agencies to stop spending money at a car wash company that he says has a history of mistreating its workers.
In a letter sent to Mayor Bloomberg, de Blasio said the city has spent more than $170,000 with Lage Management Corporation since 2010.
The company operates car washes across the city and was recently protested by workers who...
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NY Daily News: Public Advocate Bill De Blasio says... →
City paid Lage Management Corp. $170G for cleanings despite investigation alleging it cheated workers out of wages
City agencies are spending big money prettying up official vehicles at a car wash empire that is currently being investigated for alleged dirty labor practices, the Daily News has learned.
The city has paid Lage Management Corp. more than $170,000 for car cleanings since 2010,...
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Times Ledger: Workers asking Sutphin wash to clean... →
Advocates for workers’ rights said they have some dirt on a Jamaica car wash and that management should come clean.
Community activists gathered last week outside the Sutphin Car Wash, at 97-31 Sutphin Blvd., where they said operator Fernando Magalhaes has been retaliating against workers who have been fighting for fair pay and safer working conditions.
Hillary Klein, a lead organizer with the...
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NY Daily News: UnitedNY, New York Communities for... →
Pro-labor coalition calls out employers who discourage organizing among workers … Sutphin Blvd. Car Wash in Jamaica, the tour’s third stop, was called out for alleged mistreatment of workers in March in a report commissioned by WASH New York, a coalition of labor and community groups.
Sutphin is part of a chain of car washes operated by Fernando Magalhaes, who was subpoenaed earlier this...
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NY Daily News: WASH New York group campaigns to... →
Coalition fighting for rights of exploited immigrant workers
It is a never ending New York story: Rich business owners shamelessly stealing wages and tips from workers who can barely scrape out a living.
Owners, of course, are counting on the silence of workers — many of them immigrants — fearful of losing their jobs.
But car wash workers, fed up with being exploited, have courageously broken...
