House paid sick leave covers only 20% of workers, it’s a scam.
Even in a pandemic, the long arm of big corporate interests drives legislation. Turns out the much heralded paid sick leave provision in the house bill doesn’t cover large companies with over 500 employees. That’s more than half the workforce.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday night celebrated the coronavirus legislation that passed early Saturday as providing paid sick leave to American workers affected by the pandemic.
She neglected to mention the fine print.
In fact, the bill guarantees sick leave only to about 20 percent of workers. Big employers like McDonald’s and Amazon are not required to provide any paid sick leave, while companies with fewer than 50 employees can seek hardship exemptions from the Trump administration. […]
The bill does require some employers to provide full-time workers with up to 10 days of paid leave. But the requirement does not apply to the nation’s largest employers — companies with 500 or more workers, who together employ roughly 54 percent of all workers. — https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/opinion/coronavirus-pelosi-sick-leave.html
This is exactly why we should only have universal bills like Medicare For All. If there are loopholes, corporate special interests will exploit them.
I posted this in an earlier thread, but it is appropriate here. I got this from Common Dreams.
Sick Leave Loopholes: ‘There’s a Giant Hole in Pelosi’s Coronavirus Bill’
Wonder if Botoxed Nancy is giving her servants any sick days/pays? T and R, Subir!!
McDonald’s are franchises, for the most part. I would think most of those would be organizations with less than 500 employees.
I would imagine they got some special exemption.
Just a thought, Corporate gets a cut of sales from the franchise’s simply donate that back for PTO for employees that are off for a start. But then again your asking a corporation to sacrifice their quarterly profits.
Sacrificing profit is un-American as we all know. Screw ’em!
I hope Bernie’s team has listened to Krystal Ball’s ideas (some which are Aaron Mate’s) and include some of them in his fireside chat tonight.
More roses!
Glenn is mean
Red Robin now trending on twitter
it is #2 and Fireside Chat is at #4
expect that Red Robin won’t be around for long
started by a woman who said, F*** it, I want to go out and I am going to Red Robin
Now that Bernie had firs fireside chat, just saw this article from WA Post from March 6. All the more important now with the pandemic
Inside the Sanders campaign’s quest to win the Internet
i am posting this on both tabs up right now because it is good news about the Bernie network
with the fire side chat this evening and the country shut down, Bernie’s own network will be even more important
interesting that he learned all along that major networks ignored him and he needed a bypass
Inside the Sanders campaign’s quest to win the Internet
Polar Bear led me to this woman. And look what she tweeted.
Barf. “Biden is the tireless advocate for public education and is the partner that students and educators need now in the White House,”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joe-biden-wins-the-endorsement-of-the-national-education-association/2020/03/14/d53213ba-6637-11ea-b3fc-7841686c5c57_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_politics&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_source=reddit.com
Joe Biden was endorsed by the National Education Association, the nation’s largest labor group and one whose membership is largely composed of college-educated women, a key demographic in the Democratic primary.
The endorsement comes on the eve of the next presidential debate, where Biden will face off against rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and three days before the next set of states is scheduled to vote. The NEA has pledged to try to boost turnout for Biden in those four states — Ohio, Florida, Illinois and Arizona — where it has hundreds of thousands of members.
“Biden is the tireless advocate for public education and is the partner that students and educators need now in the White House,” Lily Eskelsen García, the union’s president, said in a statement. “He understands that as a nation we have a moral responsibility to provide a great neighborhood public school for every student in every ZIP code.”
“With so much at stake in this election, educators are determined to use their voice to propel Joe Biden to the White House,” she added.
The union backed Hillary Clinton in 2016 over Sanders, and has never endorsed a Republican presidential candidate. Sanders has earned support from rank-and-file members in some unions even while losing among union leadership. In Nevada, for example, the Culinary Workers Union pilloried his health care plan but Sanders ended up winning the state’s caucuses with the support of many of the union members.
i hope the union members rebel. but not holding my breath.
A lot of them will revolt. Not sure of the older ones over 60 who are still teaching.