A new report by a research group at the University of Illinois at Chicago found that 63% of warehouse workers in the southwest suburbs of Chicago were temps making poverty-level wages.
Workers from over 150 different warehouses were surveyed for the study Bad Jobs in Goods Movement: Warehouse Work in Will County, which found low wages, few benefits and high rates of injuries and discrimination.
The study focused on Will County, which has one of the largest concentrations of warehouses in the hemisphere.
"This is the first large scale study of warehouse workers in the country, and allows us to take a look into warehouse working conditions from the perspective of the workers," according to Beth Gutelius, a Research Assistant at the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Transportation, Warehousing and Logistics accounts for about 10% of the GDP and is one of the fastest growing industries in the country.
"Almost everything we use, wear and eat has been touched by the hands of someone in a warehouse or distribution center," said Cindy Marble, a warehouse worker who along with 70 other temps was fired in retaliation for filing legal charges at the Bissell vacuum cleaner warehouse in Elwood, IL. ….
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