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End of the 40 Hour Work Week?
We see by the papers that Congress is changing overtime pay rules. Those
members of Congress opposed to the change said it cost 8 million workers losing
overtime pay. The law supposedly applies to those earning over $65,000.
It is also not to nullify union contracts with overtime provisions. Well, it
does set a national precedent in law that employers will eagerly try to apply to
union contracts in the future.
Again
we see a bare faced onslaught against workers rights. But, then what can we
expect from an anti-union, anti-working class President and a Republican
Congress? If we don't change the political makeup of the Federal government in
the 2004 elections, we can expect a lot more of the same.
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