Worker exploitation

Trump’s administration considers rule that would make it easier for businesses to exploit workers

Whatever the billionaires want…….they just can’t seem to get enough. “ONLY THE BEST” (DJ Trump in reference for his appointees) “Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta after a Miami Herald report on his role in securing a plea deal for multimillionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was able to avoid prison despite allegations that he sexually abused dozens …

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If Corporations Are People, Some of Them Should Go to Jail

Who are the criminals here? “The launch of OxyContin tablets,” he allegedly said, “will be followed by a blizzard of prescriptions that will bury the competition. The prescription blizzard will be so deep, dense, and white.” Later, in his zeal to take over the market for pain drugs, the documents allege, Sackler sent an email …

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Social Inequality: Whatever You Paid to Watch Netflix Last Month Was More Than It Paid in Income Taxes All Last Year: $0

YEP, the system is rigged……” When hugely profitable corporations avoid tax, that means smaller businesses and working families must make up the difference. ”   Whatever You Paid to Watch Netflix Last Month Was More Than It Paid in Income Taxes All Last Year: $0 “Netflix posted its largest-ever U.S. profit in 2018­­—$845 million—on which it …

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EPA backs down from plan that could have allowed youth farmworkers to handle pesticides

See our earlier article on the Farm Bureau lobbying for kids to spray pesticides: House Farm Bill Increases Pesticide Risks to Children … House Farm Bill Increases Pesticide Risks to Children, Farmworkers The House farm bill includes several proposals that would roll back key pesticide protections, putting children, farmworkers, communities and even endangered species at …

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Dismissing science has put these California workers at risk – Las Vegas Sun News

Excerpt: A Regulation Undone: Chlorpyrifos THE REGULATION: Chlorpyrifos, developed as a nerve agent, has been in use as a broad-spectrum pesticide since 1965 despite growing evidence of its harmful effects, especially in children and pregnant women. Most residential uses ended in 2001. The EPA moved to ban it for agricultural purposes, with a March 2017 …

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