Book Event with

Kim Bobo

Wage Theft in

America

Why Millions of Working

Americans Are Not Getting Paid—

And What We Can Do About It

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

12 Noon

University Lutheran Chapel

2425 College Ave. (at Haste Street )

Berkeley, CA

(2 blocks from the UCB Labor Center )

Fully accessible. Metered street parking available or park at public lot on Haste Street between Telegraph and Bowditch.

Kim Bobo is the founder and executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice, a national network that engages the religious community on issues affecting low-wage workers. A veteran social justice organizer, she is the author of Lives Matter: A Handbook for Christian Organizing and the co-author of Organizing for Social Change, the most widely-used manual on progressive activism in the country.

Join us for a discussion with nationally recognized interfaith justice activist Kim Bobo. Her new book is an incisive handbook for organizers, workers, and concerned citizens on how to prevent the flagrant exploitation of America 's working people. Bobo describes how billions of dollars worth of wages are stolen from millions of workers in the U.S. 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. Bobo offers an insightful analysis of the crisis as well as concrete solutions, with special attention to what the new presidential administration should do.

Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Labor Center ,

East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE),

East Bay Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice

and University Lutheran Chapel.

Information: Andrea Buffa,