Workers brought boxes of postcards to Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters in Detroit, asking President Bush to take back his overtime pay cut.
Wonder if they were wearing brown shirts.
Fascist thugs.
Our side has taken off the gloves, rhetorically.
And the Left is losing it, palpably.
Everyone needs to start watching their backs better. These people are capable of most anything.
“The Bush administration is taking food from our families by taking our overtime pay,” says John Goldstein, president of the Milwaukee County Labor Council, which organized a rally of more than 200 people outside the Bush–Cheney headquarters in West Allis, Wis. “We wanted to send a clear message to President Bush that thousands of workers and voters don’t want him to take their overtime pay.”
The workers delivered some 200,000 postcards to Bush–Cheney campaign headquarters, federal buildings and U.S. Department of Labor offices in the various cities. The postcards called on Bush to withdraw his overtime pay take-away in the face of overwhelming public opposition and repeated votes in Congress to protect workers overtime pay.
Several Bush–Cheney headquarter operations refused to let the workers inside to deliver the postcards.
Bush has ignored two votes in the U.S. House of Representatives and three in the U.S. Senate to stop the administration from cutting workers’ paychecks. Since the Bush administration announced the overtime pay cuts in March 2003—the first major rollback of worker pay protections in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) since it was passed in 1938—workers have sent more than 1.6 million letters, e-mails and faxes in protest.
As a U.S. senator, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry voted to protect workers’ overtime rights in the face of the Bush administration’s assault on the FLSA.
Workers brought boxes of postcards to Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters in Detroit, asking President Bush to take back his overtime pay cut.