Posted on 06/24/2010 2:42:49 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Yes, it may turn out that way...
You’ll love this then:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnym51Y1BAs
From the source, takes time to load after music. Someone capture this and mark it.
News release:
News Release
WHD News Release: [04/01/2010]
Contact Name: Dolline Hatchett
Phone Number: (202) 251-7929 cell or 202-693-4651 office
Release Number: 10-0411-NAT
US Labor Secretary sends message to America’s under-paid and under-protected:‘We Can Help!’
Solis announces national campaign and commits to bringing justice to nation’s working poor
CHICAGO — Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today used the historic setting of Chicago’s famed Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, on the Chicago campus of the University of Illinois, to unveil the U.S. Department of Labor’s “We Can Help” campaign. Solis committed to helping the nation’s low-wage and vulnerable workers, and reminded them that her agency’s personnel will not waver in protecting the rights guaranteed by law to every worker in America.
“I’m here to tell you that your president, your secretary of labor and this department will not allow anyone to be denied his or her rightful pay — especially when so many in our nation are working long, hard and often dangerous hours,” Secretary Solis told an energized crowd of workers, community advocates and leaders. “We can help, and we will help. If you work in this country, you are protected by our laws. And you can count on the U.S. Department of Labor to see to it that those protections work for you.”
Today’s event marked the beginning of the “We Can Help” nationwide campaign. The effort, which is being spearheaded by the department’s Wage and Hour Division, will help connect America’s most vulnerable and low-wage workers with the broad array of services offered by the Department of Labor. The campaign will place a special focus on reaching employees in such industries as construction, janitorial work, hotel/motel services, food services and home health care. It also will address such topics as rights in the workplace and how to file a complaint with the Wage and Hour Division to recover wages owed.
Through the use of Spanish/English bilingual public service announcements — featuring activist Dolores Huerta and actors Jimmy Smits and Esai Morales, the launch of a new Web site at http://www.dol.gov/wecanhelp and a toll-free hotline, 866-4US-WAGE (487-9243), the department is renewing its emphasis on reaching and assisting workers who often find themselves denied the pay legally guaranteed to them by law. The campaign also underscores that wage and hour laws apply to all workers in the United States, regardless of immigration status.
“The nation’s laws are for the protection of everyone who works in this country,” said Secretary Solis, speaking from the site where President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Labor Secretary Frances Perkins once worked. “It is appropriate and correct that vulnerable workers receive what the law promises, and that no employer gain a marketplace advantage by using threats or coercion to cheat workers from their rightful wages. I have added more than 250 new field investigators nationwide — an increase of a third — to help in this effort. If you are a worker in America, on this day, we promise you a new beginning and a new partnership to ensure you receive the wages you deserve.”
Chicago’s Hull-House opened in 1889 when Jane Addams, the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, rented the site to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises to improve conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago. By its second year of existence, Hull-House was host to 2,000 people every week and today remains a central force in reaching out to Chicago’s poor.
Read this news release en Español.
(Umm, Huerta, Smits and Morales... none in German, Urdu, French or Korean?)
FAQ snip:
Q: If I talk to someone at Wage and Hour, will it be confidential? I don’t want to lose my job.
A: All discussions with WHD are confidential. All complaints are confidential; the name of the complainant and the nature of the complaint are not disclosed. The only exceptions are: when it is necessary to reveal a complainant’s identity, with his or her permission, to pursue an allegation; and when the WHD is ordered to reveal information by a court. You can find additional information about the investigative process at Fact Sheet 44.
Q: What if I don’t have all of the information you need? Do you have any suggestions?
A: Here are a Few Suggestions
If you don’t have a permanent address, give us your cell phone number, or the number and address of a friend or family member who knows how to reach you.
If you are not sure of the name of your employer, some suggestions are: take a picture with a cell phone or write down the license number of your employer’s vehicle; do the same for any company names on the vehicle. Do the same for other employers on the job. If you get a paycheck write down all the information on the check before you cash it. If you can, make a photocopy of the check or take a picture of it. Make a note of your job location by writing down the address.
f there is no record of your hours or pay, start keeping one. Every day you work, write down the time you start and the time you finish. Write down if you took time for a meal break and how long the break was. Write down every time you get paid, with the date and how much pay you received. You can call any Wage and Hour Office and ask them to send you free copies of our AWARE record keeping handbooks. You can get as many as you need; enough for you AND your co-workers.
Q: Not everyone on my job has a green card. If I complain about my pay, will workers be reported to Immigration? Is everyone who works entitled to the minimum wage?
A: WHD will continue to enforce the FLSA and MSPA without regard to an employee’s immigration status. No employer should have an unfair advantage because he employs undocumented employees and doesn’t pay them. Look at the Fact Sheet on Undocumented Workers which is available in English Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese. It says the WHD will enforce pay for hours worked for covered, non-exempt employees.
November will never come. The wheels are in motion, and I’d bet my home that some manufactured “disaster” brings about martial law and the suspension of elections.
It won't matter if it also results in millions of new Dem voters, on a permanent basis.
Don’t even think about it. There are not enough people willing to fight and win, and Obama will use it as an excuse to crack down on all his enemies. We have to sit back and take if until November.
It’s going to be like after the verdict in the O. J. Simpson trial.
We’re FREE!! We’re FREE!!
Other than the lack of constitutional authority to do this, TO EXACTLY HOW MANY PERSONS WOULD THIS APPLY?
(cause I know nobody knows)
“Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Disney and News Corp., are joining Mayor Michael Bloomberg to form a coalition advocating for immigration reform — including a path to legal status for all undocumented immigrants now in the United States.”
Know thy enemy.
Hope they can get by on the illegal’s money and votes.
November
That’s what too many are waiting for - they are being lulled by a wish.
I agree.
It’s too close to the “sit on your ass” strategy our opponents have come to expect.
I should have been more specific, I know John is not speaker and never has been, and I really don't want him to be, because his leadership of the minority has been terrible.
He started crowing when Obama started crashing, sort of after the fact as far as I am concerned.
Hopefully it is just my imagination. I really could do without the gift of prophecy! I do think, however, that anything is possible with Obama in power because his ego is so large he believes that he can get by with any and everything.
Violence?
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