Unions put people to work in a safe work environment with pay that sustains not just the employee, but, their family and THE COUNTRY'S TREASURY.
State legislators should be making their economic climate "Safe for Unions." I don't see that cookie cutter legislation coming out of ALEC (click here). Alec will put guns in the hands of anyone that wants one, but, not food in people's stomach or homeownership.
The Supreme Court decision regarding lawsuits demands unions protect workers. They can right such measures into their contracts and provide for higher worker respect and safety.
Everyone wants a pleasant work environment as well as a safe one and unions have lead the way for workplace safety for nearly a century. There is no reason to believe the aesthetics of the work environment can't be handled within a union contract.
Senator Brown is right and tired of hearing the rhetoric and quite frankly the lack of moral content in large family run corporations such as the Kochs and the Waltons of Walmart. Never did I think I would hear Walmart has a corporate office that directs it's workers to seek food stamps and Medicaid. That is shameful and the billionaires simply don't have any shame.
Take the Trump Company and the fact it's President, also now President of the USA, has declared bankruptcy on a regular basis which cheats the contractors and subcontractors of income that will provide for their employees. This is America? Wow. Not the one I know.
When food stamps, Medicaid and bankruptcies become a way of life for family run corporations, it is time to look at the real issue. If legislation will correct the course of the country, then so be it.
Everyone wants a pleasant work environment as well as a safe one and unions have lead the way for workplace safety for nearly a century. There is no reason to believe the aesthetics of the work environment can't be handled within a union contract.
Senator Brown is right and tired of hearing the rhetoric and quite frankly the lack of moral content in large family run corporations such as the Kochs and the Waltons of Walmart. Never did I think I would hear Walmart has a corporate office that directs it's workers to seek food stamps and Medicaid. That is shameful and the billionaires simply don't have any shame.
Take the Trump Company and the fact it's President, also now President of the USA, has declared bankruptcy on a regular basis which cheats the contractors and subcontractors of income that will provide for their employees. This is America? Wow. Not the one I know.
When food stamps, Medicaid and bankruptcies become a way of life for family run corporations, it is time to look at the real issue. If legislation will correct the course of the country, then so be it.
May 18, 2018
By Dylan Scott
By Dylan Scott
Sen. Sherrod Brown (click here) has a plan to tax corporations that don’t pay their workers enough.
Republicans in Congress just failed to pass a bill that would impose harsher work requirements for federal food stamps as part of the so-called farm bill, but there’s no sign they’re giving up on the idea anytime soon. Their argument is that, particularly with the Great Recession behind us, poorer Americans could and should be doing more to get into the workforce and off federal assistance.
The GOP’s plan raises all sorts of bigger questions, but an alternative plan by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) asks a pretty straightforward one: Is the problem that people aren’t working enough? Or is it that they don’t receive a high enough wage or generous enough benefits from their employer?
Brown thinks the latter is the real problem, and wants to charge corporations a “freeloader” fee if their employees depend on government aid like food stamps.
His proposal implies that a big overarching problem in America isn’t that poor people aren’t working hard enough; it’s that their wages aren’t high enough, their jobs and hours can be unpredictable, and their employers don’t provide robust enough benefits for them to live without support.
The bill has no chance of becoming law anytime soon. But it still underscores the divide between Democrats and Republicans over the real purpose of social welfare programs. Republicans see a workforce that could be doing more; Democrats see a system where the free market hasn’t done enough to lift up people who have the least....
