Opponents of the Bush administration’s stealth attempt to deny millions of workers overtime pay and a 40-hour work week believe there is still a chance to stop the Labor Department’s pro-business rewrite of federal work-time regulations first passed 65 years ago. If implemented, the rules—which had no public hearing and violate both recent legislative history and judicial interpretation of the Fair… return to article
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Posted by randall ellingwod on Aug 8, 2003 at 10:27 PM Amazing how we do not see any of this in the news!!! That is bescause heads would roll immediately!!! I am going to use this information to geta s many GOPers out of office as possible. Hr 1119 and Sr317, are the worst kind of crap ever put forth in recent times. Then again if this goes thru, it will have people lined up outside union halls all over this country!! Might just be the catalyst we need to get some unity
in the working class!!!
Posted by JOHN on Aug 27, 2003 at 2:56 PM Hello. I am a writer for my local independent union’s newsletter. The
Butler Armco Independent Union in Butler, PA represents around 1650 hourly employees. I am planning my next article around Bush’s proposed overtime rules. ANY SUGGESTIONS?
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