Henry Cuellar partners w/ ultra MAGAt Elise Stefanik on Bill to strip away minimum wage & OT
from many workers.That will really drive his voter turnout for the midterms!!
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1552294858840330246.html
It would carve workers out of min wage & OT protections -- not just app-deployed workers -- ANY WORKER whose employer...1/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8442/text
Decided that they would set schedules using algorithms & incentives instead of providing secure hours WOULD NO LONGER HAVE TO PROVIDE A WAGE FLOOR or OVERTIME. 2/
Employers have been trying to get of the minimum wage for a century so they can squeeze more labor out of each human. For workers w/o bargaining power (non-union workers, workers of color, low-wage workers) this bill would make earning a living nearly impossible. 3/
As Uber, DoorDash, and Instacart have already done to their workforce, it would empower employers to force workers to work long and hard to eek out a living. The everyday gamble, insecurity, & stress of gig work would extend beyond these sectors... 4/
And all in the false name of flexibility. We know Uber driving is not flexible like they pretend it is -- there is nothing flexible about making so little that you have to eat, sleep, and work in your car to provide for your family. 5/
This bill is unconscionable. It is an outrage. It would increase economic inequality--especially racialized inequality. We must rise up against this tech-capital driven DYSTOPIA. Workers should have secure, living wages AND real time flexibility. Let's legislate for THAT. 6/END.
Link to tweet
STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO THE INTRODUCTION OF THE WORKER FLEXIBILITY AND CHOICE ACT
https://www.nelp.org/news-releases/statement-in-response-to-the-introduction-of-the-worker-flexibility-and-choice-act/
Following is a statement from Rebecca Dixon, executive director of the National Employment Law Project, on the introduction of the Worker Flexibility and Choice Act (H.R. 8442):
This bill would radically erode fundamental worker protections in the United States to the benefit of big corporations, allowing them to require workers to sign away basic rights as a condition of work. The bill would also establish a second-tier employment class of disproportionately Black and immigrant workers working in arduous and underpaid jobs without minimum labor protections — growing poverty and racialized economic inequality.
The bill seeks to codify the false choice between scheduling flexibility and foundational rights. Because the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is already compatible with worker flexibility, it would be a fatal mistake for Congress to create a carveout for companies that demand “worker flexibility agreements” of their workforce. Corporations already have the ability to deliver flexibility to workers. Instead, they are using this bill to dramatically degrade the quality of work – including the basic requirement that they pay minimum wage and overtime for countless workers across the country.
The National Employment Law Project (NELP) believes that the movement for workers’ rights can defeat the Coalition for Workforce Innovation with worker organizing and policy innovation that expands labor protections and fixes the flaws in the New Deal and FLSA which left Black and immigrant workers segregated and unprotected.
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That was Bill Owens' - moderate Democrat - old seat. When he retired, he chose Aaron Woolf to succeed him. I went to the local meetup to see and hear him, liked him a lot. But Stefanik won that first election and she's gotten dramatically worse ever since - despite all the protests in my neck-of-the-woods from her very first day 
I was aware of three Democratic challengers this time around who have stepped up - one has dropped out, but at least 2 remain. I made my choice, decided to support Matthew Putorti who is actually from the district. The primary was supposed to be June 28th, but there still hadn't been a decision on redrawing the district, this has been ongoing. So the only primary candidates back in June were for governor and lieutenant governor.
So the Congressional primary has been rescheduled for August 23rd, two candidates remaining - attorney Matthew Putorti from Whitehall is still in and I saw a campaign ad from the other candidate, Matt Castelli, tonight. I don't know much about him yet, his biography says he grew up in Poughkeepsie, previously worked for the CIA and moved to Saratoga a year ago. 
Nice to know we're still getting some quality candidates up there. Let's hope your choice, Putorti, prevails.
Tedra Cobb disappointed me with supposed spending violations in her PAC, and not supporting New York Democrats. Oh well, all water under the bridge.
Keep them straightened out over on the east side of the state, OK? 😉 Nothing exceptionally exciting going on over here on the western front. All of the political crooks have already been caught over here. They're taking a break for awhile. 
Take care my friend. 
Tedra Cobb was from a part of the state I've never been. Of course, my all time favorite was Scott Murphy - who I worked for - not just a brilliant guy with some terrific ideas (he equated repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" to Truman desegregating the military), not to mention that he was local enough that he spent time (along with his entire family) at campaign headquarters most days. I still pass his house in my travels most days. *sigh*
With the help of the Clintons. President Clinton came to the district to campaign for her. I was there to see and hear him speak, and he is a brilliant speaker, no surprise.
And when President Obama chose Senator (Hillary) Clinton as Secretary of State, Governor Paterson chose Rep. Gillibrand to replace her as senator. There was a Special Election in 2009 and I worked on the campaigns for her successor, Scott Murphy - liked him tremendously and he was local for me. He won in 2009, but then lost in 2010. 
But then we got redistricted in 2013 and had Bill Owens, a moderate Democrat from Plattsburgh. But when he retired in 2015, his chosen successor, Aaron Woolf (who I made GOTV calls for, only met him once, but I liked what he had to say) lost to Stefanik. And we've been stuck with her ever since, despite the protests at her local headquarters from her first day in office.
just like the two very famous senators
USA conservative group ran ads on this in 2016 and 2018. In 1998, the House approved a compact struck between Texas, Vermont and Maine that would allow Vermont and Maine to dump low-level nuclear waste in Texas. 107 Democrat supported that bill and 1 Independent, Bernie Sanders. Hoyer, Sheila Jackson-Lee from Texas and James Clyburn also voted yes on that bill.
The claim accurately describes Sanders’ role in leading the legislative effort. But it gives the false impression that the waste was dumped in the community. It never happened. 
Never happened.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/13/facebook-posts/sanders-backed-waste-dump-plan-texas-didnt-happen/#sources
Hennery Cuellar was first elected in 2005 but had he been in office in 1998 I think he may have voted for it (IMO) seeing his record but we will never know since he wasn't in office to campaign for it.
smilies? 
that it never happened doesn’t change what Sanders did. and I knew someone would show up with this link trying to distract from the very non-progressive action of dumping waste in a poor Latino Texas community and now I see who did.
Let’s face it, Cuellar’s main political crime is that he beat the revolution.
Cuellar really hasn't beat anything yet, unless you count his anti abortion stance that is winning . Those anti choice people seem to be making great strides with their agenda thanks to the corrupt SC and their overturning women's right to healthcare. But it's my opinion that no Democrats should put forth a bill that strips away minimum wage and overtime from American workers. It's just the wrong thing to do.
Im not too fond of republican Turning Point USA's 2016 and other dark pacs more recent 2020 false and misleading ads so when I see their nonsense posted I always try to point out the facts as FactCheck.org and Snopes do. Bernie didn't do it by himself and it NEVER fucking happened.
I put my little emoticons where ever they fit.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/13/facebook-posts/sanders-backed-waste-dump-plan-texas-didnt-happen/#sources
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2020/02/19/the-dem-ad-campaign-aimed-at-taking-down-bernie-488357
candidate, though. And the pattern is established in how Democrats who beat the revolution are attacked. So in that regard, none of the other Democrats you are trying to smear with mentioning dumping Vermont’s waste in a poor Latino town are connected with the revolution. It’s just a predictable distraction. But you know that.
Edit: the “corrupt” SC didn’t have to happen if folks voted for the Democrat.
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Pro life politicians are nothing more than forced birth politicians, and when you add anti worker and anti minimum wage which is already not a living wage, that is something I can never support. Lucky for me I don't live in Texas.
The SC was corrupt back in 2000 when they stopped the count that Gore actually won, and appointed it to Bush. When it was all said and done voters in both of those election voted for the Democrat. That negates your last sentence.
