Matt Bivens: ...that's the subtext of even the Labor Department's lame little press release: It turns out workers were suffering "confusion" about their overtime rights and that this was "generating wasteful class action litigation." The press release quotes Secretary Chao as saying, "With the ?FairPay' rule"-- yes, they've even focus-grouped up another catchily misleading label, a la "Healthy Forests" or "Clear Skies" -- "With the ?FairPay' rule, we are restoring overtime to what it was intended to be: fair pay for workers, instead of a lawsuit lottery." ...As to that lawsuit lottery, these new rules transform it into a full-blown mafia-run casino...
4/23/2004
About Me
- Name: Josh Eidelson
- Location: Sacramento, California, United States
Josh Eidelson received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Political Science from Yale University, where he helped lead the Undergraduate Organizing Committee. He has written about local and national politics as an opinion columnist for the Yale DailyNews, a research fellow for Talking Points Media, and a contributor to CampusProgress.org. Views expressed here are solely his own. Contact: "jeidelson" at "gmail" dot com.
Write
Donate
Links
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Prospect
- American Rights At Work
- Barbara Ehrenreich
- Campus Progress
- Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Change to Win
- Daily Kos
- David Sirota
- Democracy for America
- Eschaton
- Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
- Finnegan's Wake
- Greg Palast
- Hyperempathic Politics
- Human Rights Watch
- Immigrant Worker Freedom Rides
- In All My Years
- IndyMedia
- Jewish Labor Committee
- Kensington Welfare Rights Union
- Labour Start
- Left in the West
- Mah Rabu
- MeretzUSA
- Mother Jones
- MoveOn
- MyDD
- National Interfaith Committeee for Worker Justice
- Nathan Newman
- The Nation
- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
- New Israel Fund
- Progressive States Network
- Progressive Patriots Fund
- Progressive Review
- The Reaction
- SNAPNotes
- Talking Points Memo
- TPM Cafe
- Wal-Mart Watch
- Weapons of Class Instruction
- Working Life
Previous Posts
- Shameful: The Equal Employment Opportunity Comm...
- The Sierra Club membership demonstrates its recogn...
- Phoebe recounts a deeply disturbing discussion wit...
- A first-year at Yale Forestry School writes about ...
- Benita Singh: ...so long as the University trea...
- I'll be there - will you? The "March for Women'...
- Tonight's episode of the West Wing, from what I ca...
- Now I acknowledge that unlike some, I don't know f...
- Harvard sets another example Yale should follow: ...
- Matthew Yglesias on Bush's Ambassador of Choice to...
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home