Its Time to Save the Republican Party

Rev. Dr. William Barber - “White Poverty” & Poor People’s Campaign March...

National Poor People’s Campaign.  March on Washington and to the Polls.

Image and link is up on our blog.

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/march-on-washington-and-to-the-polls

 

 

Mass Poor People’s Campaign and Low Wage Workers.

Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly & Moral March on Washington, D.C. & to the Polls, Livestream Party for those unwilling or unable to travel to Washington DC for the event. Refreshments will be provided. Event is free and open to the public. The venue is St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 910 NW 38th St, Lawton OK 73505. The date and time are June 29, 9 AM to 1 PM.

 

https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org

You Don’t Need a Shrink to Tell You Why You Feel This Way- Biden v Trump

You Don’t Need a Shrink to Tell You Why You Feel This Way: Really anxious about this week’s Biden-Trump debate? So is everybody else.

Local MAGA Congressperson

 Sacramento Area Congressperson Kevin Kiley

votes to impose extreme agenda on Defense Appropriations bill. 2024. 

Blocks passage of funding of U.S.military.  Votes with extreme MAGA Republicans.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/us/politics/house-defense-bill-abortion.html?

Our problem is massive inequality,  Reich.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/11/income-inequality-college-graduates-finance-consulting

 

Teachers in the South Go Union

Teachers in the South Go Union: Today on TAP: It’s not just autoworkers who are unionizing in the non-union South. In Virginia, schoolteachers are successfully organizing, too.

Rev. Dr. William Barber - “White Poverty” & Poor People’s Campaign March...

American River Walk with Discussion about Proposed Erosion Work

Must See. Doonesbury Today

 https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/06/16

How the Republicans Became the Party of Precarious Manhood

How the Republicans Became the Party of Precarious Manhood: On Donald Trump’s genius at exploiting working-class male displacement and anxiety

antiracismdsa: March on Washington; PPC

antiracismdsa: March on Washington; PPC:   National Poor People’s Campaign.     March on Washington and to the Polls. Image and link is up on our blog. https://www.dsanorthstar.org/...

National Poor People’s Campaign.  March on Washington and to the Polls.

Image and link is up on our blog.

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/march-on-washington-and-to-the-polls

 

 

Mass Poor People’s Campaign and Low Wage Workers.

Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly & Moral March on Washington, D.C. & to the Polls, Livestream Party for those unwilling or unable to travel to Washington DC for the event. Refreshments will be provided. Event is free and open to the public. The venue is St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 910 NW 38th St, Lawton OK 73505. The date and time are June 29, 9 AM to 1 PM.

 

https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org

Tell Lawmakers To Support The Education Funding Agreement By Upholding Prop 98 (CC)

Trump Didn't Lift Up the Working Class. He Stepped on Its Neck

The former president now seeking reelection had plenty of opportunities to raise wages or offer better worker protections. We know exactly what he did instead.

LAWRENCE WITTNER

May 21, 2024Common Dreams

 

On our blog.

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/trump-didnt-lift-up-the-working-class-he-stepped-on-its-neck

 

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Although Donald Trump, as president, proclaimed in his 2020 State of the Union address that he had produced a “blue-collar boom” in workers’ wages, the reality was quite different. Using his control of the executive branch of the U.S. government, Trump repeatedly undermined the wages of American workers by blocking raises and imposing wage reductions.

Only the preceding year, Trump derailed vital wage legislation. In July 2019―with the pathetically low federal minimum wage stuck at $7.25 per hour for a decade and some 13 million workers holding two or more jobs to support their families―the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed the Raise the Wage Act. If enacted, the legislation would have gradually increased the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour over a six-year period. But, instead of supporting the legislation or proposing an alternative, the Trump White House announced that, if the Senate passed the House bill, Trump would veto it. Consequently, the measure died in the Republican-controlled Senate. According to the AFL-CIO, the legislation would have raised the pay of 40 million American workers.

That same year, Trump’s Department of Labor succeeded in rolling back planned wage increases for millions of workers by restricting eligibility for overtime pay. In 2016, the last year of the Obama administration, the Labor Department had issued a rule substantially raising the income level below which workers were paid time and a half for work done beyond 40 hours per week. But the Trump Labor Department, seizing on a delay in implementation occasioned by a judicial decision, lowered the level by more than $20,000, thus depriving 8.2 million American workers of the right to overtime pay secured under Obama.

In August 2018, Trump canceled a scheduled 2 percent pay raise for millions of civilian federal employees, leading to criticism even from some Republicans. This action, plus other administration assaults on the rights of public employees, led to a massive flight of workers from government service. By the fall of 2019, there were 45,000 vacancies in the Department of Veterans Affairs alone. To fill these vacancies, the Trump administration hired large numbers of temp workers at low wages and with minimal benefits.

Yet another administration policy that undercut workers’ wages emerged with the Trump Labor Department’s issuance of a “joint-employer” rule.The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 had been fashioned to ensure that businesses using staffing companies or subcontractors would be accountable for complying with basic workplace protections. Even so, the Trump administration’s joint-employer rule substantially limited liability for wage and hour violations, thereby making it harder for workers to hold all parties accountable. As a result, U.S. workers lost an estimated $1 billion annually thanks to subcontracting or wage theft by employers. 

Of course, not all Trump administration attempts at holding down wages succeeded. In 2017, the Trump Labor Department proposed that employers could simply pocket workers’ tips, as long as the workers were paid the minimum wage. Economists estimated that this policy would lead to the loss of $5.8 billion per year in tips for workers, 80 percent of whom were women. But after the discovery that Trump’s Secretary of Labor had gone to great lengths to hide his department’s findings about how harmful the new policy would be, Congress stepped in and amended the Fair Labor Standards Act to prohibit employers from seizing the tips of their employees.

Another Trump administration failure occurred in connection with reducing the wages of farmworkers, some of the most exploited, lowest-paid workers in the United States. In mid-2019, the Labor Department proposed a new regulation that would change the rules of the H-2A visa program, used by agricultural employers to hire migrant farmworkers for seasonal work―for example, by President Trump’s wineries. As one of the rules changes would lower wage rates for H-2A farmworkers and, consequently, for their U.S. counterparts, the United Farm Workers challenged it in federal court and, ultimately, prevailed.

Read more. 

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-working-class

 

 

  

UC Workers on Strike

In an Historic Show of Labor Solidarity with Palestine, UAW Local 4811's Stand-up Strike Grows by 12,000. U.C. Workers. 

The academic workers at UCLA and UC Davis will join 2,000 already on strike at UC Santa Cruz.

 

https://inthesetimes.com/article/uaw-4811-strike-ucla-university-of-california-israel-palestine-students-rafah-gaza 

About 2,000 members of Local 4811 at UC Santa Cruz went on strike last week, the first of 10 UC campuses that may be involved in the Stand-Up Strike. UCLA and UC Davis will strike on Tuesday, May 28.PHOTO BY JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES