Intensifying the class struggle, employers who can fire you for having an open discussion about salary, sell your salary to Equifax. Future employers can pull this information up and have the upper hand in negotiation.

You can view a copy of your report here:

https://employees.theworknumber.com/

It will contain:

  • Previous annual salary

  • Previous paycheck amounts

  • Previous addresses

  • Who has accessed the report in the past 24 months

  • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Honestly shit like this makes me wonder if you could ever do a join lawsuit with thousands of individuals claiming that Equifax cost them millions in wages the same way businesses can sue regarding impacts on profit from damages. Would never work cuss we live in hellworld, but would still enjoy seeing such a thing tried out.

    • pasta [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      a few years ago equifax had a data breach giving out all this personal info/ssn for about 150 million people. they settled and if everyone filed a claim you might have gotten about a one dollar check. OR the ftc would let you use their more credit monitoring service for free for a few years. i'm not even joking

      https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2019/07/equifax-data-breach-pick-free-credit-monitoring

      courts only work to protect business profits. if a class action ever happened workers might get a 57 cent check while the company gets a slap on the wrist and a lawyer gets 8 figures.

      I was in a settlement regarding labor violations and got a check for like 50 dollars 3 years after I quit. I was cheated out of at least a few thousand dollars.. now times that by easily 2000 other employees. fuck the corrupt courts.

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Greatest theft in the US is wage theft and capitalists are the ones projecting out to workers being lazy and parasitic to the system

        • pasta [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Your name, address, and birthdate aren't worthless comrade, they represent basic vital parts of your identity as well as where you call home or where you're from.

          It's worth more than a capitalist could ever quantify in dollars, and shouldn't be stored as mere records in a spreadsheet to sell to other capitalists to target you with their worthless products, let alone be leaked with other sensitive government IDs to god knows where because of their lack of care.