Edwards Pledges to Honor Overtime as Campaign Releases New Study on Effect

[Nambe]

U.S. Newswire

On the same day that President Bush (news - web sites)'s new overtime regulations began to deprive over six million Americans of their right to overtime pay, Democratic Vice Presidential nominee John Edwards (news - web sites) met with workers and families in Wisconsin to assure them that a Kerry-Edwards administration will build an economy that rewards hard work, creates good paying jobs and strengthens the middle class.

Thanks to President Bush, the right to overtime pay became a thing of the past for six million workers Monday. By changing the technical language of a few, simple rules, the Bush administration could drastically cut the pay of millions of workers and make it even more difficult for families, already squeezed by the Bush economy, to get by.

"Today, millions of workers will find out that instead of getting time and a half; they're going to get a hard time from their government," said Edwards. "More than sixty years of protecting overtime work have been wiped out with the stroke of this President's pen." ..

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[oldtime dfl_er]

1. John Kerry needs to come out today...

and pound this. He needs to say that the first act he will perform once he takes office is to rescind the new "no overtime" laws.

[underpants]

3. He is at "High Noon" (10 minutes)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x770600

[Sugarbleus]

5. I assume the policy CAN be rescinded?? I hope so

this is a huge slap in the face to the American workers!!

Bushco = a pack of ravenous wolves

[napi21]

2. Great! This just might get the SBV's out of the news!

Besisdes being a great program to fight shrub on. There are a lot of workers who are very worried that they'll lose their OT, and they've come to depend on it just to get by. I don't think this will lose any Dem voters at all, and just might gain us some pubs!

[A_Possum]

4. A "how-to" manual?!?

"Instead of working to help Americans as they struggle to get by in this troubled economy, the current administration even went so far as to create a "How-to-Guide" for employers to advise companies on how to get out of paying workers their earned overtime pay."

That's gotta really make a lot of hourly workers happy--their tax dollars paying for a manual to show their bosses how to pay them less.