GRITtv » carolina ferreyra http://grittv.org Cultivating a Better Conversation Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:17:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Fighting Wage Theft in New York http://grittv.org/2010/03/03/fighting-wage-theft-in-new-york/ http://grittv.org/2010/03/03/fighting-wage-theft-in-new-york/#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:00:55 +0000 admin http://www.grittv.org/?p=4942 The owner of several downtown New York boutiques was arrested recently and faces four years in jail as well as civil lawsuits for up to $1.5 million. His crime? Not paying his employees for overtime, and paying some of them a flat rate of $340 a week for over 60 hours of work.

Carolina Ferreyra was one of those employees, and when she found a flyer for the Retail Action Project, she helped to launch a protest that led to her boss's arrest.  She joins us in studio with Phil Andrews of the Retail Action Project and Paul Sonn, legal co-director of the National Employment Law Project, to talk about wage theft, the problems workers face across the country--and what Obama's administration is doing to fight them.

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Shirky rejoins us at GRITtv along with Juan Carlos de Martin, founder and co-director of the Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Italy's Polytechnic University. They discuss the case, the implications for Google and YouTube, and how the Web continues to change and shape our understanding of the world.

Continuing our coverage of the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, we bring you more footage from the Ciné Institute, and Victoria Marquez, a member of the Service Employees International Union, tells her story--of struggling for fair treatment in the workplace, and why the U.S. needs comprehensive immigration reform now.

The owner of several downtown New York boutiques was arrested recently and faces four years in jail as well as civil lawsuits for up to $1.5 million. His crime? Not paying his employees for overtime, and paying some of them a flat rate of $340 a week for over 60 hours of work.

Carolina Ferreyra was one of those employees, and when she found a flyer for the Retail Action Project, she helped to launch a protest that led to her boss's arrest.  She joins us in studio with Phil Andrews of the Retail Action Project and Paul Sonn, legal co-director of the National Employment Law Project, to talk about wage theft, the problems workers face across the country--and what Obama's administration is doing to fight them.

Gentrification is a problem all over the world, not just in the urban areas of the U.S.  In this video from visionOntv, a group of activists in Barcelona, Spain fight back against the pressure on their neighborhood.

Finally, if Warren Buffett is afraid of bankers, why can't regular people get some protection?

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