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 [...]
FIGHT AT THE SUMMIT: IN THIS CORNER ANGELA MERKEL; THE DARK ANGEL OF DRACONIAN AUSTERITY MEASURES—IN THE RED TRUNKS FRANCOIS HOLLANDE; THE SOCIALIST PRESIDENT OF FRANCE. AND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RING THE U.S.A.; BATTERED ON ALL SIDES BY A STRING OF NEVER-ENDING DISASTERS FROM ITS VAIN IMPERIAL ASPIRATIONS (Counterpunch) This how Gabriel Kolko “calls” the struggle today for international [...]
As economic instability continues to roil world markets and threaten the marginal sliver of a recovery since the global recession of 2008, the pace of income inequality has quickened as the rich really are getting richer — a lot richer. On both sides of the Atlantic, the gap between prosperity and financial hardship is growing [...]
TOUGH TIMES FOR GOVERNMENT WORKERS IN THE U.S.A. (New York Times) A New York Times article describes the malaise of public sector employees across the country as local governments are making them, as a Wisconsin woman said, “scapegoats for a troubled economy,” attempting to balance stressed budgets by cutting back on retirement and health care [...]
By Michael Parenti Over the last two decades or more, Republicans have been denouncing as “class warfare” any attempt at criticizing and restraining their mean one-sided system of capitalist financial expropriation. The moneyed class in this country has been doing class warfare on our heads and on those who came before us for more than [...]
14, ooo,ooo Americans are out of work as you read this. The latest unemployment figures show a sharp and unexpected spike in jobless claims, to their highest levels in months. Major companies like Bank of America and Cisco have announced plans to lay off tens of thousands of employees at their US operations in the [...]
A guest commentary by by Kellia Ramares-Watson … The hearts of the Representatives and Senators who have introduced bills to eliminate discrimination against the unemployed in recruiting are in the right place. But, we know what is going to happen if this bill passes. The offending ads will go away, but employers will still discriminate. [...]
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