Want More Overtime? Raise Pay in the South and in Retail!

Citizen Wealth Labor Organizing

Little Rock       The Department of Labor has issued its revised rulemaking proposal on overtime eligibility for nonexempt workers.  A federal judge in Texas had halted the Obama administration’s efforts to move the number from $23,660 to double that amount at $47,476 annually.  Instead, the current proposal would move the number to $35,308 based on 2017 …

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Increasing Benefits, Now We’re Talking!

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/They-Might-Be-Giants-01-The-Communists-Have-the-Music-200005336.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans     The new Democratic majority in the US House of Representatives has   now submitted the Social Security 2100 Act in the new Congress.  The first proposed expansion of the social security since 1972.  That’s 47 years.  I’m not naïve.  It’s not suddenly going to become …

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