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75Deogracia Cornelio et al., Shattered Dreams and Broken Bodies: A Brief Review of the Inland Empire Warehouse Industry(Los Angeles: Warehouse Workers Accountability Commission, 2011).76Carrillo v. Schneider Logistics, Inc., No. 11-08557 (C.D. Cal.). All quotes and data in this discussion are based in recordevidence. See Plaintiffs’ Memorandum of Points and Authorities at 11 (Dec. 22, 2011) (illegal pay system); Declarationof Juan Chavez at 3 (Oct. 24, 2011) (overtime violation); Declaration of Everado Carillo at 3 (Oct. 24, 2011) (falsifiedrecords); Declaration of Evaristo Morales at 1-2 (Oct. 24, 2011) (falsified records); Declaration of Armando Esquivel at3 (Oct. 24, 2011) (climate of fear and retaliation); Declaration of Franklin Quezada at 2 (Dec. 22, 2011) (retaliation);Declaration of Victor Ramirez at 2 (Dec. 22, 2011) (retaliation).77Carrillo v. Schneider Logistics, Inc., No. 11-08557 (C.D. Cal. Dec. 7, 2011) (order granting preliminary injunction).78Carrillo v. Schneider Logistics, Inc., No. 11-08557 (C.D. Cal. Jan. 31, 2012) (order granting plaintiffs’ motions forpreliminary injunction, provisional class certification and approval of Hoffman-La Roche notice).79Courtney von Hippel, et al., “Operationalizing the Shadow Workforce,” in The Shadow Workforce: Perspectives onContingent Work in the United States, Europe, and Japan, ed. Sandra E. Gleason (Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institutefor Employment Research, 2006).80The Contingent Worker Supplement (CWS) conducted by the Bureau of Labor Standards was collected for only adecade. While the CWS data does not reveal employment experiences during the Great Recession or the subsequentsluggish recovery, it was collected in conjunction with the Current Population Survey (CPS), the only national datasource that does not combine foreign-born and later generations of workers of Mexican origin into one flattened racialcategory.81Catherine Singley, Fractures in the Foundation: The Latino Worker’s Experience in an Era of Declining Job Quality,(Washington, D.C.: National Council of La Raza, 2009), iv-vi.82Ibid.83Ibid.84Ibid.; Carre, McCormack, et al., “The Social and Economic Cost of Employee Misclassification in Construction.”85Matthew Dey, Susan Houseman, and Anne Polivka, “What Do We Know about Contracting Out in the United States?Evidence from Household and Establishment Surveys,” in Labor in the New Economy, eds. Katharine G. Abraham, JamesR. Spletzer, and Michael J. Harper. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 267-304.86Ibid.; George Gonos and Carmen Martino, “Temp Agency Workers in New Jersey’s Logistics Hub: The Case for aUnion Hiring Hall,” Working USA 14 (2011).87Susan Houseman, Matthew Dey and Anne Polivka, “Manufacturers’ Outsourcing to Staffing Services,” Industrial andLabor Relations Review (forthcoming).88Gonos and Martino, “Temp Agency Workers.”89Ibid.90Singley, Fractures in the Foundation, 8.91Bonacich and De Lara, “Economic Crisis,” 2.92David Ciscel, Barbara Elle Smith and Marcela Mendoza, “Ghosts in the Global Machine: New Immigrants and theRedefinition of Work,” Journal of Economic Issues 37 no. 2 (2003), available at: http://csws.uoregon.edu/wp-content/docs/InitiativeArticles/ImmigrationPDFs/GhostsLatinoWorkersTN2003.pdf.93Ruth Milkman, et al., “Wage Theft and Workplace Violations in Los Angeles,” Institute for Research on Laborand Employment, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010, accessed May 29, 2012, http://www.irle.ucla.edu/events/2010/pdf/LAwagetheft.pdf.94Ibid.95U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Economic News Release, Fatal Occupational Injuries by SelectedWorker Characteristics and Selected Event or Exposure (2009), available at: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.t04.htm.96Milkman, “Wage Theft,” 3.97Carrillo v. Schneider Logistics, Inc., No. 11-08557 (C.D. Cal. Jan. 31, 2012).98MASS. GEN. LAWS ch. 149, § 148B.99For a listing of model state and local laws relating to subcontracted and other contingent workers, see CatherineRuckelshaus, et al., “NELP Summary of Independent Contractor Reforms, New State and Federal Activity,” (New York:26
National Employment Law Project, 2011), accessed May 29, 2012,http://www.nelp.org/page/-/Justice/2011/2011IndependentContractorReformUpdate.pdf?nocdn=1.100CAL. LAB. CODE § 2810.101Day and Temporary Labor Services Act, 820 ILL. COMP. STAT. 175.102Office of Procurement and Property Management; Agriculture Acquisition Regulation, Labor Law Violations, 76Fed. Reg. 74722 (Dec. 1, 2011). See also 40 U.S.C. § 3144 and 41 U.S.C. § 352 (Davis Bacon Act and Service ContractAct, respectively, that require upper-level contractors receiving public monies to pay workers).103Walmart, Walmart Statement of Ethics (2008), accessed May 29, 2012, http://www.walmartstores.com/media/cdnpull/statementofethics/pdf/U.S_SOE.pdf.104See Warehouse Workers United, Memorandum to Mike Duke, Walmart CEO, Jan. 18, 2012, accessed May 29, 2012,http://www.warehouseworkersunited.org/fileadmin/userfiles/Uploads/WalmartEthicsComplaint01182012.pdf.105See, e.g., Sarah Leberstein, “Independent Contractor Misclassification Imposes Huge Costs on Workers and Federaland State Treasuries,” National Employment Law Project, New York, 2011, accessed May 29, 2012, http://www.nelp.org/page/-/Justice/2010/IndependentContractorCosts.pdf?nocdn=1.106For detailed suggestions about how the Department of Labor and the Census Bureau could better clarify even theirexisting data, see Matthew Dey, Susan Houseman and Anne Polivka, “Manufacturers’ Outsourcing to EmploymentServices,” Upjohn Institute Working Papers, Working Paper No. 07-132, Kalamazoo, MI, 2006.27
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