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Protecting Workers: DCWP Settles with Six Major Companies Over Workplace Violations

By NewBlackVoices on January 26, 2024 Features, New York City

Editorial credit: Jonathan Weiss / Shutterstock.com NEW YORK, NY – Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga today announced nearly $3 million in relief secured for workers from six major businesses to resolve violations of the City’s workplace laws: White Castle, Taco Bell, Domino’s Pizza, Amazon, Farm Country grocery store, and Public Preparatory […]

Uber Promised South Africans Better Lives but Knew Drivers Risked Debt and Danger

By NewBlackVoices on July 13, 2022 Africa

By Douglas MacMillan, The Washington Post CAPE TOWN, South Africa — He had been a cop, a factory worker and a taxi driver, but at 44, Shaun Cupido had yet to find a path to prosperity. Murderous gangs ruled Manenberg, the apartheid-built township where he had spent his whole life, and he was sick of […]