"Before Obama was elected, there was basically 1 cop on the beat for every 73,000 workers that are covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act," said Smukler. "That would be like the city of Detroit with 10 cops. You can imagine what kind of crime wave there would be and this is the crime wave that nobody talks about."
Smukler's organization has done extensive work on this issue and IWJ is ready to take on entire industries where wage theft runs rampant--restaurant, retail, small manufacturing, landscaping, garment manufacturing, and poultry industries in the southern U.S.
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