Anti-Employer, Pro-Trial Lawyer Legislation Fails in Senate (Freedom 1-0 versus Tyranny)

Alliance for Worker Freedom ^ | 11/17/10 | Billy Gribbin

[Andrea19]

Failing a cloture vote today in the Senate, the Paycheck Fairness Act (S.3772) was designed to close a purported “pay gap” between male and female workers. The Paycheck Fairness act looked to achieve this goal by facilitating litigation and levying small businesses with new paperwork—two policies which discourage hiring new workers.

“The misleadingly named Paycheck Fairness Act was a solution for a non-existent problem,” said Christopher Prandoni, Executive Director of the Alliance for Worker Freedom. “While proponents of this bill claim women make twenty percent less than men, when hours of work, overtime, education, and experience are accounted for, the difference between men and women’s wages is about five cents on the dollar...”

[Andrea19]

There are still many fights to come.

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[Tulane]

This is good news. Will be even tougher to get this stuff through once Mitch McConnel has 47 Rs instead of 41. Then the RINO women from Maine can vote with the Dems and we will still be able to block things like Cap and Tax, Card Check and Paycheck Fairness, and all the other social justice nonsense the dems want to ram down our throats.

Oh, and the Rs have the house. We will have needed fridlock for the next 2 years at least.

[Clump]

I just love some good old fridlock:-)

[janereinheimer]

I think there ought to be a Pay Fairness Act to correct the disparities between federal employees pay and private industry’s pay for the same job.

And while there at it, there ought not to be any pay raises for congress if they aren’t going to raise Social Security. They give themselves a $5700 a year pay raise.

I know, they say Social Security doesn’t get a pay raise because the cost of living hasn’t gone up. Who are they kidding?