abriel Hanna <http://www.blogger.com/profile/12356186353979140904> said...
Every time I visit Berkeley I see signs from Grassroots Campaigns,
Inc. offering competitive wages to people who want to protest for a
living. They have a national presence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassroots_Campaigns,_Inc.
/In 2006, GCI was sued for overtime wage violations for allegedly
working its staff 14-hours a day. The suit, filed in federal court
in San Francisco in 2006, accused Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. of
overworking mostly college students long hours, seven days a week
gathering petition signatures and donations for Democratic
candidates and groups like Moveon.org. "It's ironic that a company
that bills itself as a champion of the progressive movement would
treat its own employees so badly," said Robert S. Nelson, of the
Nelson Law Group, a San Bruno, California firm that filed the class
action on behalf of at least six (of thousands) of former employees./
/Fourteen students sued Grassroots Campaigns Inc. for wages they
claim the nationwide contractor for the Democratic National
Committee owed them for their local work as canvassers in 2004 for
the failed John Kerry campaign. According to the complaint filed in
August 2006 in Multnomah County Circuit Court, Grassroots paid the
students the federal minimum wage of $5.15 an hour, instead of
Oregon's then-minimum wage of $7.05 an hour. The suit seeks the
wages each student is owed, plus a $1,692 penalty per student.
Grassroots claimed the students were paid properly and legally.
(Willamette Week, 9/20/06) After a settlement was reached by both
parties, the case was dismissed on August 2, 2007./
/Near the end of 2008 Grassroots campaigns was involved in a lawsuit
for firing 3 employees from their Chicago office after attempting to
form a union. Originally the employees sought the aid of the ACLU as
one of the clients of Grassroots, but were told by the national
office it would be a "conflict of interest" since Grassroots ran the
ACLU's canvassing operation. The employees took their case to the
NLRB who agreed to take the case as they felt they had sufficient
evidence that a violation of the National Labor Relations Act had
occurred. Grassroots ultimately agreed to settle the case and agreed
to pay backpay for all 3 employees nearing $18,000./
3/13/11 9:13 AM
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