New York City carwash workers are following their Los Angeles counterparts to battle rampant mistreatment, wage theft and unsafe working conditions. Today the coalition, WASH New York, released a report—“The Dirty Business of Cleaning NYC’s Cars”—that details the long hours, low pay and dangerous conditions the city’s more than 5,000 carwash workers at some 200 carwashes face every day.

More than 20,000 people from throughout New York City streamed across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday in a March for the Middle Class to protest attacks on working families’ jobs and values in the city and across the state.

UAW President Bob King says he and the union’s members fully support Wisconsin workers’ “courageous efforts”:

to fight back against this thinly veiled, purely partisan effort to destroy unions in favor of a system [Gov. Scott]Walker and his well-heeled political pals will control.