Carlos Cuestas: Administrative Relief Can Save My Career, Life and Family

“There’s no point in claiming lost wages, because of your immigration status you’ll never recover the wages,” said a carwash owner to Carlos Cuestas. Carlos Cuestas, is a non-union carwash worker and member of the CLEAN Carwash Campaign. He fought to organize his fellow carwasheros after facing wage theft and…

Wage Theft: Employers Withhold Carwash Workers Wages

Los Angeles is the wage theft capitol of the United States, where $26.2 million is stolen from workers every week. That amounts to $1.4 billion every year! The thieves are not sticking up bank tellers or picking pockets on the street. The thieves are employers who profit from not paying…