U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis will visit Hull House tomorrow to launch a new campaign – developed in consultation with workers and advocates in Chicago — to promote public awareness on wage theft.

The labor department’s “We Can Help” campaign will be launched by Solis at a program starting at 11 a.m. tomorrow (Thursday, April 1) at Hull House, 750 S. Halsted. Workers and advocates from Interfaith Workers Justice and its workers center here, Arise Chicago, are participating. This winter IWJ set up meetings with workers in four cities to review the labor department’s plans for the campaign, including a meeting with ten Chicago workers in January. It was following IWJ’s National Day of Action on wage theft last November 19 that Solis announced she was tripling the staff of the department’s wage and hours division and planning the campaign. (click on link to read full story)