Santorum's Sweatshop bill...slave nation here we come

[Mari333]

Sweatshops Expanded, Overtime Attacked, and State Minimum Wage Laws Undermined
This is as low as it goes, as the GOP fights to expand sub-minimum wage sweatshops across the country. Pennsylvania's Rick Santorum is leading the charge for a GOP bill that would ostensibly raise the minimum wage by $1.10 per hour, but in reality would cut wages for millions of American workers and expand unregulated sweatshops across the country.

As this Economic Policy Institute analysis details, the bill is a trojan horse for assaulting workers rights.

Licensing Sweatshops: While a $1.10 per hour minimum wage increase by itself would help 1.8 million workers, Santorum includes a poison bill exempting any business with revenues of $1 million or less from regulation -- raising the exemption from the current $500,000 level.

The upshot: while 1.2 million workers could qualify for a minimum wage increase, another 6.8 million workers, who work in companies with revenues between $500,000 and $1,000,000 per year, would lose their current minimum wage protection.









http://www.nathannewman.org/laborblog/archive/002263.shtml

[bleedingheart]

1. yet another reason this asshole needs to be removed from office

if he get's elected again...it will make me sick

[rodeodance]

2. licensing sweatshops--how low can they go!! (we know they will

go as low as they are able-while the press sleeps or gives us constant 'news' about Jacko or Stetart!!

[Devlzown]

3. I might not make any wages if this bill passes.

I'm a waiter, so I make $2.13 an hour. This bill would allow many companies to force tipped employees to live off their tips only. That 2 dollars an hour isn't much, but it does cover my taxes and insurance. Even if the restaurant and casino workers in this state finally organized a union, I don't think it would be very effective in combatting a bill like this, since it puts so many restrictions on what states can do to regulate wages.

[anarchy1999]

4. We need an "A" list or top 10-20 to be removed. DeLay is #1,

Frist is #2, Santorum #3, Orin Hatch #4, Stevens from Alaska "5, and so on and so forth.

Leiberman
Kay Bailey Hutchinson
John Cornyn

(Bet you can't tell I'm from Texas)

on edit:

I guess we need a top 50!

edit again:

Good heavens, I didn't realize I was responding to Mari! Morning Sweet! I've missed you lots, hope you are all doing well!!

[tjwash]

5. Guess who is gonna staff these places?

Red staters that voted for these people in the first place. Don't worry though, they will find a way to blame it on Democrats.