Tell Congress To Correct the Court
We've discussed this before, but PfAW wants to energize the campaign as Sen. Kennedy is introducing legislation this week.
The decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear involved the interpretation of a federal statute-not the Constitution. That's why Congress has the authority, and the responsibility, to correct the Court's error and strengthen Americans' ability to recover wages that they have been unfairly denied. Will you join the petition calling on congressional leaders to support legislation to correct Ledbetter v. Goodyear?
The Ledbetter legislation, the "Fair Pay Restoration Act," will be introduced in the Senate as early as tomorrow by Sen. Kennedy. The House legislation, the "Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act," was passed by the Education and Labor committee at the end of June.
youre fired.
congress can't take a piss by themselves right now...let alone do something to help working people. also law is for rich white women anyway, not working class people.
Write a letter. Send an email. Make a phone call. Send a telegram. Make smoke signals. Perhaps utilize morse code. Use sign language.
You'd might as well slam your head into a brick wall, because if you think any of the above means of communication will have any sway over what goes on any more, you need to be locked in a padded cell somewhere, 'cause you ain't sane.
They can't fix a damn thing until they have a solid majority. How many repugs are going to vote for a bill that helps workers? 0
Done and done. It's easy. Do it whether you think it will do any good or not!
The MARKET sets wages..not the Congress. This will destroy business! It will make us uncompetitive. It's anti-labor, it will eliminate jobs. We can't compete in the global market place. It will hurt our economy. If we hurt our economy, we lose financial strength...and then...
THE TERRORISTS WIN!!!
MOMMMMMMMMY!!!!
The ruling says that you have to file a complaint within "180 days of the act of discrimination." That's odd. Why not "180 days after the discovery of the discrimination. And if you've been working somewhere for years and didn't know you were being wage discriminated, then how can you ever sue?
Boo Whoo get a new job. She worked there for 20 years and had no idea please.
The Supreme Court ruled that discrimination is illegal only if discovered within a 180 day period. Guess discrimination is legal after that! Get back at the Court and Goodyear. Give them what they give to working folk. Make businesses PUBLISH salaries so ALL employees know what each gets. When a salary is changed, it must be published immediately so others can decide whether discrimination exists. Let the conservatives be responsible to businesses for this ruling which no business will want.
I did it. The deed has been done. As per #8, many companies will fire people for discussing what they are paid with their co-workers, so fuck off.
guess which party will scuttle this bill...
Look Congress doesn't have permission to bring this up and if they did they have not figured out how to make it none binding. They can't even reinstate Habeus Corpus DUH!, nor will they IMPEACH the GULESS,SPINELESS COWARD and TRAITOR cheney who has had 2 (two0 of his staff indictwed and CONVICTED for SPYING DUH! and you want them to reinstate pay wow lady you ask a lot.
This is very passable. And will just clarify that section of the Civil Rights Act and protect it from further judicial misinterpretation. The decision was wrong-headed and ignored past rulings and the long-held interpretation of that 180-day clause. Just an example of the "Bush Supreme Court" showing its contempt for stare decisis and taking part in right-wing judicial activism.
And the decision certainly affects working class people (disproportionately so - wage discrimination happens at the lower levels way more than at the upper levels... common sense). And minorities, of course. "Rich white women" my ass.
I see only two ways to correct this Extreme Court. The next president can either make the fascists pretending to be justices an offer they can't refuse ( and maybe "heart-attack" or "car-accident" one or two just to make an example - oh, hell, make it all 5 of them) or, the new president can petition Congress to exercise its Constitutionally mandated role and authority and increase the the number of sitting justices such that the current majority, which is comprised entirely of goons without conscience, become an utter irrelevency no matter how they vote.
It's going to take extraordinary means to "correct" the Court, because the majority is irredeemably corrupt, is thoroughly wedded to shameful ideologies and each member of that majority is a committed enemy of the Constitution. They have sided with sociopathy. They have elevated property rights above human rights. They have elevated privilege far above need and want. They have elevated the rule of elites above the rule of law which derives its authority from the sovereign will of the People. They have elevated ubiquitous police control over freedom and liberty. They have elevated the privileges of the powerful over the fundamental needs of the defenseless and powerless. In short, they have methodically and willfully betrayed their trust to the People and the Constitution, the heritage of their own institution, and they have cheapened and made shabby the law - as they interpret it to the ever accruing advantage of those to whom they have sold their allegiances. They have methodically done all with full malice aforethought, with deep and knowing malintent. And they will never stop wreaking their harm until the means to effectively act is denied them. Indeed, from their perspective, they are just getting warmed up.
Congress needs not only to correct this corrupt institution, it needs to understand just how bad is the problem that needs correcting.
The Supreme Court's decision defied common sense and the clear intent of the law because the discrimination was ongoing. If Ledbetter were discriminated against, but then the company corrected it, and she then brought a law suit a year later, the company would have an argument. However, they never stopped discriminating against her, so the 180 days factor never applied. What we have here, yet again, is an authoritarian court that is eager to bend the law into pretzels to favor conservatives and the powerful at the expense of average citizens, the rule of law and common sense. The best remedy is making the law even more explicit on these points, although it's sad that's necessary.
Let's get this legislation passed and boycott Goodyear too.
Paul nailed it.
This Supreme Court majority needs to be ridden out of the country on a rail.
Hard to imagine, but with the addition of Roberts and Alito, this is a worse court than the traitorous one that installed W.
One way or another, they have to go. Impeachment would be nice. Packing would be acceptable, but many people died to gain and defend the freedom they have almost obliterated through their appointed dictator. I'm open to almost anything.
I can not believe that any "Hard" working American would mock a fellow citizen as post #8 did. Obviously, that person does not think the same could happen to them. Just another deadly blow to what little life is left in our democracy.
Every working class citizen in this country should sign this petition. It reminds me of a statement I heard from a fellow citizen. They ask me why I worried so much about the "Patriot Act I and II". If I wasn't a terrorist then I had nothing to worry about. I wish I would have said, "The founding fathers of this country were not terrorist, yet they knew that they must write a constitution to protect the civil liberties of the people from their own government."
How can American Citizens stand back and watch this slaughter our Democracy and Freedoms!
I signed the petition and I will call tomorrow!
What do you expect? They own the land!
I was on duty on a certain place for the for 6 months. What I saw, won't be easy to forget. Now, back in civilization, and I have to read abuses like these. And who? Will move a finger about this. We know how women are constantly abused on the work force. Nobody comes out and takes stand on this situation. It's like we are regressing into a modern technological version of the Middle Ages. The Elite, the Priests, the Serfs.
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