Proposed Trump Rule Could Cost American Workers $1.3 billion in Wages Annually, Economic Study Says

[OnePercenter]

More tRump bashing of American Workers.

A new rule proposed by the Trump administration in an attempt to weaken the power of labor unions could cost American workers $1.3 billion in lost wages annually, a new study by the Economic Policy Institute has found.

The rule proposal would limit the joint employment standard under the National Labor Relations Act.

Currently, two or more companies are “joint employers” of an employee if they share the ability to govern that employee’s salary and working conditions. Even if a company has the right to govern an employee’s working conditions but opts not to, it can be held responsible for labor violations.

The rule change would limit that. A company would only be held responsible if it “possesses and exercises substantial, direct and immediate control over the essential terms and conditions of employment and has done so in a manner that is not limited and routine.”

The changes would leave certain employees without the ability to hold their employers accountable for violating safety and fair pay laws. The rule change would also make it nearly impossible for unionized workers or workers who want to unionize to collectively bargain with all of their employers.

First an attack on wages, now an attack on safety.

 

[caddo kid]

the GOP is the party of the rich & wealthy; they love to fvck the working man up the azz.

the GOP wants AmeriKKKans to work for the lowest wage possble & the GOP wants AmeriKKKans to work in unsafe conditions.

What does that do? It helps the rich, fat cat Republican company owners to keep more of their money & to fvck AmeriKKKan workers.

Go GOP; go fvck AmeriKKKans.

 

[hadit]

the GOP is the party of the rich & wealthy; they love to fvck the working man up the azz.

the GOP wants AmeriKKKans to work for the lowest wage possble & the GOP wants AmeriKKKans to work in unsafe conditions.

What does that do? It helps the rich, fat cat Republican company owners to keep more of their money & to fvck AmeriKKKan workers.

Go GOP; go fvck AmeriKKKans.

Looks like somebody needs a new keyboard with keys that work.

 

[westwall]

More tRump bashing of American Workers.

A new rule proposed by the Trump administration in an attempt to weaken the power of labor unions could cost American workers $1.3 billion in lost wages annually, a new study by the Economic Policy Institute has found.

The rule proposal would limit the joint employment standard under the National Labor Relations Act.

Currently, two or more companies are “joint employers” of an employee if they share the ability to govern that employee’s salary and working conditions. Even if a company has the right to govern an employee’s working conditions but opts not to, it can be held responsible for labor violations.

The rule change would limit that. A company would only be held responsible if it “possesses and exercises substantial, direct and immediate control over the essential terms and conditions of employment and has done so in a manner that is not limited and routine.”

The changes would leave certain employees without the ability to hold their employers accountable for violating safety and fair pay laws. The rule change would also make it nearly impossible for unionized workers or workers who want to unionize to collectively bargain with all of their employers.

First an attack on wages, now an attack on safety.

I don't see that at all. i do see an attack on the leeches known as the trial lawyers association who are probably the most responsible group for our outrageous health care costs. But hey, that's just an informed person talking.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

More tRump bashing of American Workers.

A new rule proposed by the Trump administration in an attempt to weaken the power of labor unions could cost American workers $1.3 billion in lost wages annually, a new study by the Economic Policy Institute has found.

The rule proposal would limit the joint employment standard under the National Labor Relations Act.

Currently, two or more companies are “joint employers” of an employee if they share the ability to govern that employee’s salary and working conditions. Even if a company has the right to govern an employee’s working conditions but opts not to, it can be held responsible for labor violations.

The rule change would limit that. A company would only be held responsible if it “possesses and exercises substantial, direct and immediate control over the essential terms and conditions of employment and has done so in a manner that is not limited and routine.”

The changes would leave certain employees without the ability to hold their employers accountable for violating safety and fair pay laws. The rule change would also make it nearly impossible for unionized workers or workers who want to unionize to collectively bargain with all of their employers.

First an attack on wages, now an attack on safety.

US wages are nearly $9 trillion.
$1.3 billion is a rounding error.

 

[K9Buck]

the GOP is the party of the rich & wealthy; they love to fvck the working man up the azz.

the GOP wants AmeriKKKans to work for the lowest wage possble & the GOP wants AmeriKKKans to work in unsafe conditions.

What does that do? It helps the rich, fat cat Republican company owners to keep more of their money & to fvck AmeriKKKan workers.

Go GOP; go fvck AmeriKKKans.

You're insane.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

More tRump bashing of American Workers.

A new rule proposed by the Trump administration in an attempt to weaken the power of labor unions could cost American workers $1.3 billion in lost wages annually, a new study by the Economic Policy Institute has found.

The rule proposal would limit the joint employment standard under the National Labor Relations Act.

Currently, two or more companies are “joint employers” of an employee if they share the ability to govern that employee’s salary and working conditions. Even if a company has the right to govern an employee’s working conditions but opts not to, it can be held responsible for labor violations.

The rule change would limit that. A company would only be held responsible if it “possesses and exercises substantial, direct and immediate control over the essential terms and conditions of employment and has done so in a manner that is not limited and routine.”

The changes would leave certain employees without the ability to hold their employers accountable for violating safety and fair pay laws. The rule change would also make it nearly impossible for unionized workers or workers who want to unionize to collectively bargain with all of their employers.

First an attack on wages, now an attack on safety.

It’s not just Trump, but most of the GOP.

 

[MarathonMike]

That might be the best example of Liberal think tank gobbledy gook I've ever read. How do you put a number to anything as convoluted as that? Oh but it's a "study" so it must be believed, so say the Liberals.

 

[DGS49]

I don't know who "The Economic Policy Institute" is but their conclusions are obviously phony.

"The changes would leave certain employees without the ability to hold their employers accountable for violating safety and fair pay laws."

This is bullshit. No "rule change" would prevent someone from calling OSHA to report a safety violation, or from calling Wage & Hour Division to report a problem with pay or overtime pay.

It is obviously a bullshit report.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

I don't know who "The Economic Policy Institute" is but their conclusions are obviously phony.

"The changes would leave certain employees without the ability to hold their employers accountable for violating safety and fair pay laws."

This is bullshit. No "rule change" would prevent someone from calling OSHA to report a safety violation, or from calling Wage & Hour Division to report a problem with pay or overtime pay.

It is obviously a bullshit report.

I don't know who "The Economic Policy Institute" is

A sampling...…...

Board of Directors

Richard L. Trumka, Chairman
AFL-CIO

Julianne Malveaux, Secretary-Treasurer
Bennett College

Gary Bass
The Bauman Foundation

Barry Bluestone (board member emeritus)
Northeastern University

Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán
Baruch College

Ernesto J. Cortés, Jr.
Industrial Areas Foundation

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.)

Jeff Faux
Economic Policy Institute

Lily Eskelsen García
National Education Association

Leo W. Gerard
United Steelworkers

Teresa Ghilarducci
The New School for Social Research

Jacob Hacker
Yale University

Susan Helper
Case Western Reserve University

Mary Kay Henry
Service Employees International Union

Robert Kuttner
The American Prospect

Robert Martinez, Jr.
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

Tom Perez
Democratic National Committee

Robert B. Reich (board member emeritus)
University of California, Berkeley

Lee Saunders
AFSCME

Christopher M. Shelton
Communication Workers of America

Randi Weingarten
American Federation of Teachers

Board of Directors

 

[OnePercenter]

More tRump bashing of American Workers.

A new rule proposed by the Trump administration in an attempt to weaken the power of labor unions could cost American workers $1.3 billion in lost wages annually, a new study by the Economic Policy Institute has found.

The rule proposal would limit the joint employment standard under the National Labor Relations Act.

Currently, two or more companies are “joint employers” of an employee if they share the ability to govern that employee’s salary and working conditions. Even if a company has the right to govern an employee’s working conditions but opts not to, it can be held responsible for labor violations.

The rule change would limit that. A company would only be held responsible if it “possesses and exercises substantial, direct and immediate control over the essential terms and conditions of employment and has done so in a manner that is not limited and routine.”

The changes would leave certain employees without the ability to hold their employers accountable for violating safety and fair pay laws. The rule change would also make it nearly impossible for unionized workers or workers who want to unionize to collectively bargain with all of their employers.

First an attack on wages, now an attack on safety.

US wages are nearly $9 trillion.
$1.3 billion is a rounding error.

Except; ""After adjusting for inflation, however, today's average hourly wage has just about the same purchasing power it did in 1978, following a long slide in the 1980s and early 1990s and bumpy, inconsistent growth since then," he wrote. "In fact, in real terms average hourly earnings peaked more than 45 years ago: The $4.03-an-hour rate recorded in January 1973 had the same purchasing power that $23.68 would today."

Which is why I promote a $23.50/hr minimum wage.

 

[OnePercenter]

More tRump bashing of American Workers.

A new rule proposed by the Trump administration in an attempt to weaken the power of labor unions could cost American workers $1.3 billion in lost wages annually, a new study by the Economic Policy Institute has found.

The rule proposal would limit the joint employment standard under the National Labor Relations Act.

Currently, two or more companies are “joint employers” of an employee if they share the ability to govern that employee’s salary and working conditions. Even if a company has the right to govern an employee’s working conditions but opts not to, it can be held responsible for labor violations.

The rule change would limit that. A company would only be held responsible if it “possesses and exercises substantial, direct and immediate control over the essential terms and conditions of employment and has done so in a manner that is not limited and routine.”

The changes would leave certain employees without the ability to hold their employers accountable for violating safety and fair pay laws. The rule change would also make it nearly impossible for unionized workers or workers who want to unionize to collectively bargain with all of their employers.

First an attack on wages, now an attack on safety.

It’s not just Trump, but most of the GOP.

That's the GOP motto; Profit before anything else including safety.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

More tRump bashing of American Workers.

A new rule proposed by the Trump administration in an attempt to weaken the power of labor unions could cost American workers $1.3 billion in lost wages annually, a new study by the Economic Policy Institute has found.

The rule proposal would limit the joint employment standard under the National Labor Relations Act.

Currently, two or more companies are “joint employers” of an employee if they share the ability to govern that employee’s salary and working conditions. Even if a company has the right to govern an employee’s working conditions but opts not to, it can be held responsible for labor violations.

The rule change would limit that. A company would only be held responsible if it “possesses and exercises substantial, direct and immediate control over the essential terms and conditions of employment and has done so in a manner that is not limited and routine.”

The changes would leave certain employees without the ability to hold their employers accountable for violating safety and fair pay laws. The rule change would also make it nearly impossible for unionized workers or workers who want to unionize to collectively bargain with all of their employers.

First an attack on wages, now an attack on safety.

US wages are nearly $9 trillion.
$1.3 billion is a rounding error.

Except; ""After adjusting for inflation, however, today's average hourly wage has just about the same purchasing power it did in 1978, following a long slide in the 1980s and early 1990s and bumpy, inconsistent growth since then," he wrote. "In fact, in real terms average hourly earnings peaked more than 45 years ago: The $4.03-an-hour rate recorded in January 1973 had the same purchasing power that $23.68 would today."

Which is why I promote a $23.50/hr minimum wage.

Yes, I'm familiar with the bad math behind your recommendation.
Not to mention the bad economics.

 

[OnePercenter]

That might be the best example of Liberal think tank gobbledy gook I've ever read. How do you put a number to anything as convoluted as that? Oh but it's a "study" so it must be believed, so say the Liberals.

Here's a number; $53 billion per year for injured workers. Now tRump wants to make it harder for employees to bargain for a safe working environment.

Safety and Health Topics | Business Case for Safety and Health - Costs | Occupational Safety and Health Administration

 

[OnePercenter]

I don't know who "The Economic Policy Institute" is but their conclusions are obviously phony.

"The changes would leave certain employees without the ability to hold their employers accountable for violating safety and fair pay laws."

This is bullshit. No "rule change" would prevent someone from calling OSHA to report a safety violation, or from calling Wage & Hour Division to report a problem with pay or overtime pay.

It is obviously a bullshit report.

I don't know who "The Economic Policy Institute" is

A sampling...…...

Board of Directors

Richard L. Trumka, Chairman
AFL-CIO

Julianne Malveaux, Secretary-Treasurer
Bennett College

Gary Bass
The Bauman Foundation

Barry Bluestone (board member emeritus)
Northeastern University

Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán
Baruch College

Ernesto J. Cortés, Jr.
Industrial Areas Foundation

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.)

Jeff Faux
Economic Policy Institute

Lily Eskelsen García
National Education Association

Leo W. Gerard
United Steelworkers

Teresa Ghilarducci
The New School for Social Research

Jacob Hacker
Yale University

Susan Helper
Case Western Reserve University

Mary Kay Henry
Service Employees International Union

Robert Kuttner
The American Prospect

Robert Martinez, Jr.
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

Tom Perez
Democratic National Committee

Robert B. Reich (board member emeritus)
University of California, Berkeley

Lee Saunders
AFSCME

Christopher M. Shelton
Communication Workers of America

Randi Weingarten
American Federation of Teachers

Board of Directors

The Economic Policy Institute has board members that deal with and have experience in the economy? I'm shocked.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

I don't know who "The Economic Policy Institute" is but their conclusions are obviously phony.

"The changes would leave certain employees without the ability to hold their employers accountable for violating safety and fair pay laws."

This is bullshit. No "rule change" would prevent someone from calling OSHA to report a safety violation, or from calling Wage & Hour Division to report a problem with pay or overtime pay.

It is obviously a bullshit report.

I don't know who "The Economic Policy Institute" is

A sampling...…...

Board of Directors

Richard L. Trumka, Chairman
AFL-CIO

Julianne Malveaux, Secretary-Treasurer
Bennett College

Gary Bass
The Bauman Foundation

Barry Bluestone (board member emeritus)
Northeastern University

Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán
Baruch College

Ernesto J. Cortés, Jr.
Industrial Areas Foundation

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.)

Jeff Faux
Economic Policy Institute

Lily Eskelsen García
National Education Association

Leo W. Gerard
United Steelworkers

Teresa Ghilarducci
The New School for Social Research

Jacob Hacker
Yale University

Susan Helper
Case Western Reserve University

Mary Kay Henry
Service Employees International Union

Robert Kuttner
The American Prospect

Robert Martinez, Jr.
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

Tom Perez
Democratic National Committee

Robert B. Reich (board member emeritus)
University of California, Berkeley

Lee Saunders
AFSCME

Christopher M. Shelton
Communication Workers of America

Randi Weingarten
American Federation of Teachers

Board of Directors

The Economic Policy Institute has board members that deal with and have experience in the economy? I'm shocked.

They have a bunch of whiney, liberal twats. But I repeat myself.

 

[OnePercenter]

More tRump bashing of American Workers.

A new rule proposed by the Trump administration in an attempt to weaken the power of labor unions could cost American workers $1.3 billion in lost wages annually, a new study by the Economic Policy Institute has found.

The rule proposal would limit the joint employment standard under the National Labor Relations Act.

Currently, two or more companies are “joint employers” of an employee if they share the ability to govern that employee’s salary and working conditions. Even if a company has the right to govern an employee’s working conditions but opts not to, it can be held responsible for labor violations.

The rule change would limit that. A company would only be held responsible if it “possesses and exercises substantial, direct and immediate control over the essential terms and conditions of employment and has done so in a manner that is not limited and routine.”

The changes would leave certain employees without the ability to hold their employers accountable for violating safety and fair pay laws. The rule change would also make it nearly impossible for unionized workers or workers who want to unionize to collectively bargain with all of their employers.

First an attack on wages, now an attack on safety.

US wages are nearly $9 trillion.
$1.3 billion is a rounding error.

Except; ""After adjusting for inflation, however, today's average hourly wage has just about the same purchasing power it did in 1978, following a long slide in the 1980s and early 1990s and bumpy, inconsistent growth since then," he wrote. "In fact, in real terms average hourly earnings peaked more than 45 years ago: The $4.03-an-hour rate recorded in January 1973 had the same purchasing power that $23.68 would today."

Which is why I promote a $23.50/hr minimum wage.

Yes, I'm familiar with the bad math behind your recommendation.
Not to mention the bad economics.

Show me your arithmetic.

 

[OnePercenter]

I don't know who "The Economic Policy Institute" is but their conclusions are obviously phony.

"The changes would leave certain employees without the ability to hold their employers accountable for violating safety and fair pay laws."

This is bullshit. No "rule change" would prevent someone from calling OSHA to report a safety violation, or from calling Wage & Hour Division to report a problem with pay or overtime pay.

It is obviously a bullshit report.

I don't know who "The Economic Policy Institute" is

A sampling...…...

Board of Directors

Richard L. Trumka, Chairman
AFL-CIO

Julianne Malveaux, Secretary-Treasurer
Bennett College

Gary Bass
The Bauman Foundation

Barry Bluestone (board member emeritus)
Northeastern University

Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán
Baruch College

Ernesto J. Cortés, Jr.
Industrial Areas Foundation

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.)

Jeff Faux
Economic Policy Institute

Lily Eskelsen García
National Education Association

Leo W. Gerard
United Steelworkers

Teresa Ghilarducci
The New School for Social Research

Jacob Hacker
Yale University

Susan Helper
Case Western Reserve University

Mary Kay Henry
Service Employees International Union

Robert Kuttner
The American Prospect

Robert Martinez, Jr.
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

Tom Perez
Democratic National Committee

Robert B. Reich (board member emeritus)
University of California, Berkeley

Lee Saunders
AFSCME

Christopher M. Shelton
Communication Workers of America

Randi Weingarten
American Federation of Teachers

Board of Directors

The Economic Policy Institute has board members that deal with and have experience in the economy? I'm shocked.

They have a bunch of whiney, liberal twats. But I repeat myself.

I'm pro in promoting the American Worker. You, being a Putin "ass boy" not so much.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The minute you see the word Could. Stop reading. Everything following is a lie.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

More tRump bashing of American Workers.

A new rule proposed by the Trump administration in an attempt to weaken the power of labor unions could cost American workers $1.3 billion in lost wages annually, a new study by the Economic Policy Institute has found.

The rule proposal would limit the joint employment standard under the National Labor Relations Act.

Currently, two or more companies are “joint employers” of an employee if they share the ability to govern that employee’s salary and working conditions. Even if a company has the right to govern an employee’s working conditions but opts not to, it can be held responsible for labor violations.

The rule change would limit that. A company would only be held responsible if it “possesses and exercises substantial, direct and immediate control over the essential terms and conditions of employment and has done so in a manner that is not limited and routine.”

The changes would leave certain employees without the ability to hold their employers accountable for violating safety and fair pay laws. The rule change would also make it nearly impossible for unionized workers or workers who want to unionize to collectively bargain with all of their employers.

First an attack on wages, now an attack on safety.

US wages are nearly $9 trillion.
$1.3 billion is a rounding error.

Except; ""After adjusting for inflation, however, today's average hourly wage has just about the same purchasing power it did in 1978, following a long slide in the 1980s and early 1990s and bumpy, inconsistent growth since then," he wrote. "In fact, in real terms average hourly earnings peaked more than 45 years ago: The $4.03-an-hour rate recorded in January 1973 had the same purchasing power that $23.68 would today."

Which is why I promote a $23.50/hr minimum wage.

Yes, I'm familiar with the bad math behind your recommendation.
Not to mention the bad economics.

Show me your arithmetic.

Gladly.
Tell me your starting date and the price index you're using.