It ain’t passed yet.
A lot of democrats see this as it is, even McGovern opposes it. This is a largely unpopular measure, if the Republicans make an issue of it, it could easily fail with the passive support of democrats looking for reelection. Even more likely, I can see Obama shuffling this act to the bottom of the deck for later action.
Big Labor doesn’t have any place else to go, and Obama has other fish to fry.
“This is a largely unpopular measure, if the Republicans make an issue of it, it could easily fail ... “
If our current crop of Republicans had a single pair among them, they’d point lots of things out. As it is, they’ll whine, then roll over.
These are dark, dark days in Amerika.
I have been a bookkeeper for small business most of my life.
I would immediately sit down with any business and look hard at their total structure.
I would ask them about their origins- Mom-Pop type or what.
I woud see if the “business could be run from home/garage instead of a rented space.
I would ask the owners exactly how much money they need to SURVIVE.
Then I would recommend shrinking down to the core of 2 or 3 people and end the rent/lease and lay off every “empoloyee”. If I felt I needed a person to help the Mom-Pop core, I would either sell them a VERY SMALL share of the business and have them then be “owners” with the caveat that I could buy back the ownership at my demand. Otherwise- I would use only a temp agency. and I would NOT guarantee 40 hours a week. There is too much wasted time on every job, anyway.
You all survived when it was just 1 or 2 of you at the beginning. Cut back to that and stop paying more taxes to the Messiah.