You Really Shouldn't Shop There: The Businesses That Told Perry to Veto Equal Pay
While we shouldn't overlook the fact that Rick Perry's own personal judgement is completely shortsighted on his own, due to his ability to consistently overlook the realities that he and his party have forced upon women in this state, we now have additional entities to hold accountable for the failure of the Texas Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
Unsurprisingly the Texas Retailers Association and National Federation of Independent Businesses lobbied Perry specifically to veto the bipartisan legislation. However, several members of the organization made their own personal asks including Macy's, Kroger's, Houston grocery company Gerland Corp., Brookshire Grocery Company, and Market Basket.
Along with the GOP, these businesses think that treating your employees equally and paying them equally is "unnecessary." Apparently this law was so unnecessary that forty-two other states already have their own state equal pay law. So unnecessary, even despite the fact that white women currently make only 77 cents for every dollar men earn. In addition, women of color make even less, black women make just 69 cents, and Latina women just 60 for every dollar made by men.
Progress Texas pushed out a new campaign today encouraging people to boycott Macy's and Kroger for supporting bad policies that seek to harm women. As a refresher, they laid out exactly why state laws are needed to support the federal Lilly Ledbetter Act in June when it was vetoed:
More at http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/13911/you-really-shouldnt-shop-there-the-businesses-that-told-perry-to-veto-equal-pay .
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