Kim Bobo, the founder and Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, the national organization with which WIN is affiliated, will be in the Twin Cities on January 21!

At 7 p.m. on the 21st, Kim will read from her new book, Wage Theft In America: Why Millions of Workers Are Not Getting Paid and What We Can Do About It.

Rev. Nolan Johnson, Director of the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro, North Carolina and a prominent religious leader involved in the movement for worker justice, had this to say about Kim’s book:

“In what has been described as “the crime wave no one talks about,” billions of dollars worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers in the United States every year. The scope of these abuses is as staggering as it is wrong—paying employees far less than the legal minimum wage, purposefully misclassifying employees as independent contractors, illegally denying workers overtime pay—and only now are people beginning to take notice.

Nationally recognized labor activist Kim Bobo’s Wage Theft in America is an incisive handbook for organizers, workers, and concerned citizens on how to prevent the flagrant exploitation of America’s working people. Offering a sweeping analysis of the crisis and providing concrete solutions, with special attention to what the new presidential administration should do, Wage Theft in America addresses one of the most egregious and unfair practices affecting workers today.”

Kim’s a dynamic speaker with an important message. We’ll have more information about where the reading’s taking place right after the first of the year. Please join us!