From Alison Blogger at Act for Victory
The Bush Administration’s War on Overtime
For the past year and a half, the Bush Administration has been waging a strategic and effective war… against overtime pay for the middle class. Today new, more stringent overtime regulations go into effect, jeopardizing benefits for six million American workers.
In Ohio, the Bush rules threaten 263,846 workers who currently have a guarantee of overtime.
Last month on the blog, Cincinnati Canvass Leader Sam wrote of talking about the overtime regulation with one such Ohio resident: Our team was out talking with a working-class community on the edge of the city. Some of the sidewalks crumbled out of existence, but there was a big school next to us and people were friendly. We talked to a bunch of people until I came
across a guy that has stuck in my head for the last few days. He was a short middle-aged man, crude tattoos on his arms, and slicked back hair. I started talking about job loss - we’ve lost over a quarter million jobs in Ohio in the last several years and many people either know someone who was laid off or who is having trouble finding real work – and he immediately responded. “I know a lot of people who’re having trouble,” he offered before adding, “And they almost took away my wife’s overtime. Tried real hard, but we managed to keep it. We wouldn’t be able to afford the house without her overtime.”
In order to further pad the pockets of their big business cronies, the Bush Administration has also given employers tutorials on how to avoid paying overtime to millions of low-income workers. Read further facts and details of thnew regulations in the Truth Center
Posted by Allison Stuntz at 10:43 AM
For the past year and a half, the Bush Administration has been waging a strategic and effective war… against overtime pay for the middle class. Today new, more stringent overtime regulations go into effect, jeopardizing benefits for six million American workers.
In Ohio, the Bush rules threaten 263,846 workers who currently have a guarantee of overtime.
Last month on the blog, Cincinnati Canvass Leader Sam wrote of talking about the overtime regulation with one such Ohio resident: Our team was out talking with a working-class community on the edge of the city. Some of the sidewalks crumbled out of existence, but there was a big school next to us and people were friendly. We talked to a bunch of people until I came
across a guy that has stuck in my head for the last few days. He was a short middle-aged man, crude tattoos on his arms, and slicked back hair. I started talking about job loss - we’ve lost over a quarter million jobs in Ohio in the last several years and many people either know someone who was laid off or who is having trouble finding real work – and he immediately responded. “I know a lot of people who’re having trouble,” he offered before adding, “And they almost took away my wife’s overtime. Tried real hard, but we managed to keep it. We wouldn’t be able to afford the house without her overtime.”
In order to further pad the pockets of their big business cronies, the Bush Administration has also given employers tutorials on how to avoid paying overtime to millions of low-income workers. Read further facts and details of thnew regulations in the Truth Center
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