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WINS reports on WWJ
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Workers Independent News reporter Jerry Mead-Lucero reports on release of WWJ’s report Bad Jobs in Goods Movement.
Ware and tear: Many warehouse workers get low pay and no benefits
Thursday, August 26th, 2010Change.org
Megan Cotrell
When you’re standing in a store aisle, trying to decide between brands of shampoo or kinds of soda, you probably don’t think about how whatever you’re buying arrived there in front of you. But getting it there was a process, and not one just done by machines. People worked to get you that product, and a lot of those people are warehouse workers.
I never considered how a store came to have the items on its shelf. That is, until I talked to Tory Moore, a former warehouse worker and now an organizer for a group called Warehouse Workers for Justice.
Survey reveals harsh conditions
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010Poverty wages and few benefits. Job-related injuries that result in workers getting disciplined or fired. Temporary positions that offer little hope of stability or advancement. Allegations of union busing.
Welcome to the world of workers who staff the hundreds of warehouses clustered near the nation’s largest inland dry port, a sprawling inter-model distribution hub for consumer goods located in Will County, southwest of Chicago. In a new report, Warehouse Workers for Justice (WWJ) analyzes the present state of working conditions at these warehouses, some of the few places in the Chicagoland region offering new blue-collar jobs. But those jobs aren’t providing for workers or their families, the report finds.
Chicago-area workers face temp jobs at poverty wages, new U of I Chicago study shows
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010A new report by a research group at the University of Illinois at Chicago found that 63% of warehouse workers in the southwest suburbs of Chicago were temps making poverty-level wages.
Workers from over 150 different warehouses were surveyed for the study Bad Jobs in Goods Movement: Warehouse Work in Will County, which found low wages, few benefits and high rates of injuries and discrimination.
Report paints grim picture for warehouse workers
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010Chicago Tribune
Alejandra Cancino
Temporary workers in Will County working in warehouses tend to make poverty-level wages and are less likely to have basic benefits, according to a report released Monday by Warehouse Workers for Justice.
“Bad Jobs in Goods Movement,” an eight-month survey of 319 warehouse workers, painted a grim picture of the living situation of temporary workers in the region. Among the most troubling findings: one in three workers injured on the job were fired or disciplined when reporting the injury and only 4 percent of temporary workers had health insurance.