[Peace-discuss] This could be it for overtime pay.

[Ricky Baldwin]

[Folks, notwithstanding our ongoing discussions of the
organized labor's strengths and weaknesses, the attack
on overtime pay - part of the Bush plan to repeal the
20th century - is very important to resist.  None of
us now living remember the days before the Eight Hour
Day movement that led to the imfamous Haymarket Square
bomb in Chicago, the hanging of innocent labor leaders
and eventual establishment of May Day as a day of
international working-class solidarity (almost
everywhere but in the US).  But any of us who ever
worked in factory, in a kitchen or almost anywhere
else manual labor is done has benefited.  Our children
and grandchildren deserve at least this. -RB]
  
--- Working Families e-Activist Network
<peoplepower at aflcio.org> wrote:
> Date: 25 Sep 2003 21:57:01 -0000
> From: "Working Families e-Activist Network"
> <peoplepower at aflcio.org>
> To: "Ricky Baldwin" <baldwinricky at yahoo.com>
> Subject: This could be it for overtime pay.
> 
> Sept. 25, 2003 
> 
> The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to
> vote
> to block or permit President Bush's overtime pay
> take-away
> on Wednesday, Oct. 1. Our records indicate that,
> while
> you may have acted before, you have not yet sent a
> fax to your representative this month urging him or
> her to protect overtime pay. Please take one minute
> right now to send your fax by clicking on the link
> below. 
>
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/houseotvote/8w7x772l5djd
> 
> 
> The Bush overtime pay proposal would gut overtime
> protections
> and pay for millions of workers. Overtime pay is
> critical
> to working families who receive it. Michael Farrar,
> a cost estimator at NAVAIR Depot, Jacksonville,
> Fla.,
> had this to say about overtime pay: 
> 
> "When I took this job, it was clear that I was
> expected
> to work more than 40 hours a week. And I agreed to
> it because I knew I'd need the money. We'd be
> devastated
> without the overtime now--we have no more corners to
> cut." 
> 
> Farrar and his wife, together, care for their
> 21-year-old
> son who has disabilities.  
> 
> Please click on the link below right now to send a
> fax to your representative urging him or her to
> block
> President Bush's overtime pay take-away. 
>
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/houseotvote/8w7x772l5djd
> 
> 
> Thanks for all you do. 
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