After 75 years enshrined as one of the backbones of federal worker protection laws, Republicans in Congress want to eliminate overtime pay regulations in favor of extra time off under the guise of “flexibility.” Republicans have tried to fundamentally change the way workers that out extra time on the clock are treated for nearly two [...]
BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A TEMP JOB? While unemployment rates in the U.S. have shown some improvement, with less than 9% of the work-force unemployed on a “given day,” this measure of unemployment masks the fact that over 13% of workers and their families will face a period of non-employment during some part of [...]
TODAY KIVALINA, TOMORROW THE WORLD? COULD BE IF THE PDI GETS ITS WAY. Counterpunch prints introduction to new book in which Christine Shearer describes the plight of a small Alaskan village which has sued fossil fuel companies for the cost of re-locating themselves from a coastal location made extremely vulnerable to sea surge because [...]
OBAMA CARE LIVES! (BUT FOR HOW LONG?). (Yahoo News) The Supreme Court delivers its long-awaited verdict on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. In a 5-4 decision, conservative Chief Justice Roberts joins the “liberal” members of the Court in upholding virtually all of the law, including the controversial “individual mandate” to require everyone to [...]
Walmart may be the place where you “save money” on all sorts of products, but the idea that its employees can “live better” just doesn’t add up. And those concerns over how the world’s largest company treats the employees that have built its ubiquitous brand is beginning to hit Walmart’s bottom line. Questions over labor [...]
BEWARE OF “A GOVERNMENT OPERATING BY CORRUPT INFLUENCE, SUBSTITUTING THE MOTIVE OF PRIVATE INTEREST IN PLACE OF PUBLIC DUTY.” (Reuters News) Is this a slogan used by the Occupy Wall Street protesters, or some modern-day populist politician? Not quite. This was a warning from James Madison in 1792, just after the very birth of our United States Constitution. [...]
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