The department of what? - Does this DOL really work for workers?

[leQ]

great article in the Des Moines Register that talks about the department of labor and the hypocrisy the administration.

This is the department that has pushed for changes to overtime rules that are intended to spare employers from getting sued by their workers over overtime pay, and could result in some workers losing overtime pay. This is also the department that compiled a list of suggestions for employers that will help them avoid paying overtime to the very lowest-paid workers.

This department created a list of suggestions for employers on how to finagle payroll, disqualify people from overtime and basically wring as much work out of people while paying them as little as possible.

[mhr]

1. Department Of Labor = Department Of Corporate Labor Slaves

Did you have to ask?

[struggle4progress]

2. Misuse of taxpayers dollars:

'Now the DOL is e-mailing "editorials of interest" to an untold number of recipients as part of a PR campaign. The only editorials found interesting are the ones that support the rules changes the department has advocated. It's a spin machine worthy of the employers' lobby groups.'

Well, the employers' lobby groups probably supplied the editorials.

[SharonAnn]

3. No, it doesn't. Secretary Elaine Chao is gutting the Department

and doing everything she can to support the crony capitalism of * and his friends.

She's married to Mitch McConnell, one of the most right-wing senators that exists.

It's apparently a "family business" that they're trying to eviscerate labor's influence.

[tom_paine]

4. In Imperial Amerika all executive organizations perform a New Task

essentially the opposite of their old task.

During the Days of the Old Republic, FDA, EPA, DOL were staffed by people who believed in the mission. Most were honest and performed their duties well, if not perfectly.

During the These Days of Imperial Amerika, such organizations serve the Emperor* alone. All staff are being purged and "reorganized" so that Imperials have the final say, not Honest People. Imperials SERVE the corporations they ae supposed to regulate. Their job is to lie to and confuse anyone stupid enough to believe that these organizations do anything more than vestigal (and on the way out) functions which they used to perform.

Thus EPA deceives New Yorkers into breathing poisonous air

Thus FDA orders silence about Mad Cow Disease that might harm Imperial Allies and fuck the dumbass Imperial Subjc=ects of Amerika

And on and on and on. The Treasury Department now wholly serves the Imperials alone. It's current task, to falsely fabricate and manipulate data which will falsely "corroborate" Bushevik Lies about our Malaise and Outsourced Economy.

HHS is a fraud and money laundry. Why, I'll bet 2 Junior ADAs, a paralegal and a $5,000 budget could crack the case because the Busheviks are so arrogant and have literally gotten away with murder so many times they ahve no fear.

In conclusion, it is a mistake to believe that ANY Bushevik Organization which they seized in the Bloodless Coup of 2000, performs as it did when Amerika was a Free nation.

A HUGE mistake.