LABOR -- WHITE HOUSE USING KATRINA TO CUT WAGES:

[rodeodance]

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Subject: Progress Report: Brown, More Unqualified Than You Thought
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 08:05:22 -0700
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LABOR -- WHITE HOUSE USING KATRINA TO CUT WAGES: The Bush administration still has not learned one of the central lessons of Hurricane Katrina: Poverty and substandard wages hurt our nation. The 1931 Davis-Bacon Act requires federal contractors to pay at least the prevailing wages in the area where the work is being conducted. Bush has issued an executive order to suspend Davis-Bacon and allow federal contractors rebuilding after the hurricane to profit at the expense of their workers. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, notes that Bush is "using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities."........

[bballny]

1. remember

cheap labor conservatives is their name and impoverishing people is their game. They hate paying for labor.

[Toots]

2. Remember them saying Katrina will effect all of America

They will say it is for the Katrina disaster even if the job is in Chicago. Wages everywhere will be effected by this and not in a good way. What they are basically saying is Unions need not apply...Scab Labor only and we'll pay you squat....

[sandnsea]

3. While continuing to award corporate America

FEMA reports today that 5 of the nation’s major corporations have been contracted to “speed emergency housing relief” to the Gulf Coast. “Fluor Corp. of Aliso Viejo, Calif. heads up operations for the Housing Area Command. An engineering and construction firm, it is now in Louisiana beginning construction on temporary housing units that will provide electricity, potable water and sanitary sewage facilities. Bechtel National Inc. of San Francisco, an engineering and construction firm that is now on the scene in Gulf states to provide emergency housing relief.” This in addition to the $500 million contract KBR has already received for clean up and repairs to Gulf Coast military facilities.

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/?view=plink&id=1357

[Mountainman]

4. Still working poor will vote for repukes because they don't want gays to

marry or pregnancies to be aborted.

[bee]

6. youre so right. what was it my mother use to say?

cut off the nose despite the face....

[kansasblue]

5. it's so low now, hasnt' been raised in years. Now they drop it.