Independent Contractors Decision

FedEx drivers were illegally misclassified as independent contractors for years despite being treated like employees of the company, the Kansas Supreme Court found on Friday. The ruling moves FedEx Ground employees around the country a few steps closer to collecting hundreds of millions of dollars in back pay.

From the late 1990s through the first decade of the 2000s, FedEx set contract agreements with delivery and pickup drivers in order to avoid the higher costs associated with making the drivers full employees. Independent contractors are not protected by the same labor laws as payroll employees. The contracts allowed FedEx to bill drivers for their uniforms and equipment and protected the company from having to pay overtime when drivers cracked the 40 hour weekly mark.

The Great Film Production Job Grab!

FILM PRODUCTION ANOTHER VICTIM OF THE INSANE OUTSOURCING WE HAVE BEEN FORCED TO LIVE WITH.  RIGHT ON CALIFORNIA FOR FIGHTING BACK!

"Wal Mart's No Living Wage Guarantee!"

IN WASHINGTON DC WAL MART REFUSED TO BUILD STORES IF IT HAD TO PAY THEIR

EMPLOYEES THE  LIVING WAGE THAT THE CITY COUNCIL  HAD PASSED INTO LAW.

Yet another example that the auctioning of America is well under way!  As Woody Guthrie once sang, If you don't have the Dough Re Me...

Wisconsin's Governor Scott Walker and the Republican's War on Unions!!

IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP PEOPLE, OUR VERY LIVELY HOOD IS UNDER ATTACK!  THE GOP WON'T BE HAPPY UNTIL WE ARE ALL ON MINIMUM WAGE! 

AND THEN THEY'LL LOWER THAT!  UNIONS SET THE FLOOR ON WAGES! 

 NO FLOOR?

 THEN  DOWN COMES EVERYTHING! 

 THERE ISN'T ENOUGH PROFIT THAT WILL MAKE THEM HAPPY!

LIKE TED KENNEDY ONCE SAID " WHEN DOES THE GREED STOP?!!"

"The So Called, Job Creators have the Dough Ray Me, And they're Not Hiring, in the USA!"

"The so called Job Creators are on strike for even more tax cuts, what a Crock !"

Nurses Talk About Staffing Issues

"Ceo's rake it in , while pitting workers against each other!"

CEO Pay Now Exceeds Pre-Recession Levels, Like The Crash Never Happened

"Unions under attack in 2011!"

"Stop This Insane Outsourcing!"

Now it's become apparent to everyone that the Regan,Bush,Clinton,Friedman flat earth free trade insanity has devastated America's Middle Class!  We need to end  the NAFTA, GATT, and WTO insanity and return to the protectionism that built American industry over the past 200 years .

"Exporting our Jobs and America's Future!"

American consumers never seemed to be able to put two and two together.  As we were busy running out and filling up our shopping carts with cheap plastic crap made in China, we didn't seem to realize that a "global economy" meant that we would be competing for jobs and wages with workers on the other side of the world.

"Corporations Are sitting on a Mountain of Cash and Not Hiring!"

How would you like to pay only a quarter of the real estate taxes you owe on your home? And buy everything for the next 10 years without spending a single penny in sales tax? Keep a chunk of your paycheck free of income taxes? Have the city in which you live lend you money at rates cheaper than any bank charges? Then have the same city install free water and sewer lines to your house, offer you a perpetual discount on utility bills--and top it all off by landscape your front yard at no charge?  Fat chance. You can't get any of that, of course. But if you live almost anywhere in America, all around you are taxpayers getting deals like this. These taxpayers are called corporations, and their deals are usually trumpeted as "economic development" or "public-private partnerships." But a better name is corporate welfare. It's a game in which governments large and small subsidize corporations large and small, usually at the expense of another state or town and almost always at the expense of individual and other corporate taxpayers.

"Reversing 70 years of labor Gains!"

It's A class war economy, there's a shocking transfer of wealth out of the pockets of working people and the poor and into the overstuffed bank accounts of the super-rich.   And it's happening side-by-side with falling wages, sinking family income, evaporating pensions, forclosures and a failing health-care system.

im Bunning Repeatedly Blocks Unemployment Benefits Extension, Tells Dem 'Tough Shit'

Jim Bunning, a Republican from Kentucky, is single-handedly blocking Senate action needed to prevent an estimated 1.2 million American workers from prematurely losing their unemployment benefits

Turning Bombs into High Speed Rail?"

President Obama wants to bulk up high-speed rail, and scale down defense spending. FDR converted peace-time manufacturers into a dominating wartime production system. Why can't President Obama make the bold move to convert our defense contractors into builders of our peacetime future?

"We Want To Get Back To Work Mr. President!

 America needs jobs. Our nation was built on the muscle of manufacturing.  Before all this outsourcing  we were  an industrial giant of the world, where jobs were available to those who wanted to work.  The future of the economy depends on a working America, and the people want their voices heard. We must return to a country where our focus is once again on industry, and begin to build not only the economy, but morale. The only way to do that is by putting people back to work.

"What We Would Have Liked to See at The Job Summit!"

They had a Job Summit, yet nothing has changed!   The outsourcing of our jobs continue!

Tax havens enable the rich and U.S. multinationals to move income and assets between global subsidiaries and dodge taxes.  Responsible businesses and individual taxpayers are left to pay for U.S. infrastructure, defense, education and all the public investments that contribute to a healthy business climate and economy.