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Overworked Laborers’ Day?

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Posted on Sep 4, 2006
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OK, we had to do it. Some snippets from a focus on the daily grind by the Washington Post:

  • The Pew Research Center: “Americans believe that workers ... are worse off now than a generation ago—toiling longer and harder for less in wages and benefits, for employers who aren’t as loyal ... in jobs that aren’t as secure.”
  • The Economic Policy Institute’s “State of Working America 2006/2007”: Productivity may have boomed in recent years, but family incomes have stalled.
  • Peter D. Hart Research for the AFL-CIO repeats this pessimistic drumbeat: Fifty-five percent of Americans said their incomes were not keeping up with inflation; 38% predicted that the economy would worsen in the coming year.”

  • Also, the origins of Labor Day, My Bad Boss Contest, a four-day workweek, labor statistics, quality of life, undocumented workers’ rights.  More labor links? Put ’em here....

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    By Frank, September 4, 2006 at 2:13 pm #
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    Yes, wages are down, hours worked are up, benefits are being lost.

    Why? Do you even have to ask?  Illegal immigration and the cheap labor it brings, obviously.

    Just as you can’t have your cake and eat it too, the left can’t bitch about lower wages and overworked labor and oppose efforts to clamp down on illegal immigration.

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