EPISODE · Jul 10, 2026 · 35 MIN
Andrew Strom on How Judges Chip Away at Worker Wage Protections
from America’s Work Force Union Podcast · host BMA Media Group
A nursing home company cheated nearly 6,000 workers out of wages for years. The Department of Labor sued, went to trial and won $35.8 million. Then a federal appeals court ruled that federal wage law does not cover some of those unpaid hours and told workers to go find their own lawyer in state court to recover the rest. On today's episode of America's Work Force Union Podcast, longtime union lawyer Andrew Strom breaks down what happened and why it matters for working people everywhere. He explains what overtime gap pay is in plain terms, why a rule the Department of Labor has had on the books since 1968 was not enough to protect these workers, why the dissenting judge called the result unfair and why being in a union is the most practical protection against exactly this kind of wage theft.
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Longtime union lawyer Andrew Strom explains a federal appeals court ruling that left nearly 6,000 Pennsylvania nursing home workers unable to recover some of their unpaid wages under federal law, sending them to state court to fight for the rest on their own. He breaks down what overtime gap pay is, why a dissenting judge called the result unfair and why a union contract remains the most effective protection against the kind of long-running wage theft these workers experienced.
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