Comments on: Happy Labor Day, Progressives; Conservatives, Get Back to Work http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:38:37 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Robt http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1973116 Robt Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:28:22 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1973116 <p>Isn’t the GOP a union sort of?</p> <p>They pay dues, pay homage, vote on their issues, gain power with group association. </p> <p>But I guess a Union is NO Party………………! It is alot of work.</p> Isn’t the GOP a union sort of?

They pay dues, pay homage, vote on their issues, gain power with group association.

But I guess a Union is NO Party………………! It is alot of work.

]]> By: tejanarusa http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1972912 tejanarusa Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:05:47 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1972912 <p>Anybody here have an answer for this question - isn’t paying by “piecework” illegal? Does FLSA cover this?</p> <p>See Barbara’s post at 41 here:<br /><a href="http://christyhardinsmith.firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/health-care-and-poverty-we-are-failing-our-most-vulnerable/#comment" rel="nofollow">http://christyhardinsmith.fire.....e/#comment</a></p> <p>I really thought there was, pardon the expression, a law against that.<br /> Anybody know?</p> Anybody here have an answer for this question – isn’t paying by “piecework” illegal? Does FLSA cover this?

See Barbara’s post at 41 here:
http://christyhardinsmith.fire…..e/#comment

I really thought there was, pardon the expression, a law against that.
Anybody know?

]]> By: laurastrand http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1972751 laurastrand Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:17:41 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1972751 <p>HayMarket, Ludlow CO. SF Water Front, Republic Windows, Public Workers everywhere today. PATCO, Miracle on the Hudson, the Mensch of Maldon Mills, River Rouge, . . . .Labor, the ONLY INSTITUTION between the corporate over lords and decency.<br /> Unless and until the Employee Free Choice Act passes, nothing will level the playing field where workers increase productivity but are denied the rewards of their labor.</p> HayMarket, Ludlow CO. SF Water Front, Republic Windows, Public Workers everywhere today. PATCO, Miracle on the Hudson, the Mensch of Maldon Mills, River Rouge, . . . .Labor, the ONLY INSTITUTION between the corporate over lords and decency.
Unless and until the Employee Free Choice Act passes, nothing will level the playing field where workers increase productivity but are denied the rewards of their labor.

]]> By: Gitcheegumee http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1972695 Gitcheegumee Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:25:32 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1972695 <p>U.S. Recovery Leaving Workers Jobless May Spur Company Profits …Sep 5, 2009 … Employers kept Americans’ working hours near a record low in August, signaling that economic growth is poised to reward companies with added …<br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid…" rel="nofollow">www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pi.....sid…</a> - Similar</p> U.S. Recovery Leaving Workers Jobless May Spur Company Profits …Sep 5, 2009 … Employers kept Americans’ working hours near a record low in August, signaling that economic growth is poised to reward companies with added …
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pi…..sid… – Similar

]]> By: Gitcheegumee http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1972694 Gitcheegumee Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:24:09 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1972694 <p>Employers kept Americans’ working hours near a record low in August, signaling that economic growth is poised to reward companies with added profits while postponing any recovery in the job market.</p> <p>The average workweek held at 33.1 hours, six minutes from the 33 hours in June that was the lowest since records began in 1964, the Labor Department said yesterday. </p> <p>– Bloomberg, “U.S. Recovery Leaving Workers Jobless May Spur Company Profits ,” 9/5/09.</p> Employers kept Americans’ working hours near a record low in August, signaling that economic growth is poised to reward companies with added profits while postponing any recovery in the job market.

The average workweek held at 33.1 hours, six minutes from the 33 hours in June that was the lowest since records began in 1964, the Labor Department said yesterday.

– Bloomberg, “U.S. Recovery Leaving Workers Jobless May Spur Company Profits ,” 9/5/09.

]]> By: nahant http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1972689 nahant Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:53:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1972689 <p>Very good song to illustrate the miners plight dakiene!! I have listen to that song thousands of time since I was a wee one!</p> Very good song to illustrate the miners plight dakiene!! I have listen to that song thousands of time since I was a wee one!

]]> By: nahant http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1972688 nahant Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:50:16 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1972688 <p>Great stioy of how Corproate America has been trying to have defacto SLAVERY!!</p> Great stioy of how Corproate America has been trying to have defacto SLAVERY!!

]]> By: nahant http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1972687 nahant Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:47:39 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1972687 <p>Thanks Gitchee and I will read it… bit late responding but… I blame the brunch I had to make for the family….</p> Thanks Gitchee and I will read it… bit late responding but… I blame the brunch I had to make for the family….

]]> By: Maddy http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1972686 Maddy Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:41:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1972686 <p>I just threw Obama under the bus, He speaks weasel words and I will be pleasantly surprised if we even get a strong public option instead of single payer health care we should have. And he will call it a victory-and we the people have to swallow this bullshit.</p> <p>What should happen now is massive protest by the left.<br /> Strikes a day at a time where we all call in sick and refuse to buy anything<br /> I don’t know how to organize this but we are getting nowhere now and at the mercy of a quaking bunch of cowardly lions.</p> <p>Not sorry for the snark and frankly I don’t give a rats ass.</p> I just threw Obama under the bus, He speaks weasel words and I will be pleasantly surprised if we even get a strong public option instead of single payer health care we should have. And he will call it a victory-and we the people have to swallow this bullshit.

What should happen now is massive protest by the left.
Strikes a day at a time where we all call in sick and refuse to buy anything
I don’t know how to organize this but we are getting nowhere now and at the mercy of a quaking bunch of cowardly lions.

Not sorry for the snark and frankly I don’t give a rats ass.

]]> By: Mommybrain http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1972685 Mommybrain Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:28:12 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/07/happy-labor-day-progressives-conservatives-get-back-to-work/#comment-1972685 <p>Oh, yeah, Tennessee Ernie - Hello, pea pickers!</p> <p>That’s exactly it.</p> Oh, yeah, Tennessee Ernie – Hello, pea pickers!

That’s exactly it.

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