Why don't we just call it Associate's Day?
Ah - a holiday weekend.
If it was Memorial Day, half the news broadcast would be spent on shots at the VA and a ceremony at the National Cemetery.
If it was Thanksgiving, we’d get stories about soup kitchens, returning soldiers, and pre-Christmas sales.
If it was Christmas, we’d get shots of returning soldiers and soup kitchens.
But this is Labor Day, and doing stories about working class issues might be a little awkward in a part of the country where news anchors genuflect as Wal-Mart press releases are treated like manna from Heaven. So instead we’ll have what we always have - hard-hitting stories about how folks amuse themselves on the Labor Day weekend.
Yee-haw!
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This weekend several kindred souls listened to the horrible labor complaints from Rachel Townsend, director of NWA Workers Justice Center. Next time you hear someone complain about immigrants ripping off America spend 30 mins with Rachel and learn how America is ripping off immigrants. In NWA it's mostly wage ripoffs. Much of it is facilitated with rules from Ark state dept of labor. Arl will on
seek to recapture up to $1000 in ripped off wages. When applying to U.S. Dept of Labor they will only handle wage theft for employers with more than $500K revenues. This eliminates many roofing contractors, landscape contractors and so on.
Min Wage bulletins and workers notices are only printed in English in Ark.
That's just a beginning of the atrocities.
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September 1, 2007 02:34 PM