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The Supreme Court of the United States has issued a unanimous decision that security screenings after the work day, regardless of the amount of time they take to perform, do not qualify for remuneration. The decision focuses on the Portal-To-Portal Act of 1947 which defines a workday that specifically excludes those activities "incidental" to an employee's primary responsibilities.
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SCOTUS Finds in Favor of Amazon, No Pay for Mandatory Security Screenings
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Teachers have class.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 11 2014, @09:23PM
The 0.1% who own most of this country's wealth depend entirely on the other 99.9% of us
General strike [wikipedia.org]
The Wobblies (IWW) are mentioned prominently farther down on the page.
#Industrial Workers of the World [wikipedia.org]
also interesting
#Notable general strikes [wikipedia.org]
Wildcat strike [wikipedia.org]
(The section on Vietnam is even more interesting than the part about USA.)
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by pnkwarhall on Friday December 12 2014, @12:23AM
timely....
Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday December 12 2014, @08:41PM
The fallacy of that is that the 99% is not a cohesive group. Neither, of course, is the 1%, but being a smaller group they have less internal divergence of interests. (Yes, that's oversimplified. But thinking of the groups as "the 1%" and "the 99%" is even more oversimplified.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 12 2014, @09:35PM
As Stephen Colbert (and perhaps others) likes to point out, reality has a Liberal bias.
The majority of folks are egalitarian and in favor of mostly-unconstricted civil liberties.
(You might investigate Ralph Nader's Left-Right Alliance.
He has e.g. Grover Norquist onboard.)
If just -those- folks would suit up and show up, things could get better rapidly.
N.B. The turnout in November was 36 percent of registered voters (and only 70 percent of those eligible actually register).
Those folks will also have to stop consuming Lamestream Media and get their information ONLY from outlets that do NOT take money from corporations and/or billionaires.
Come to think of it, yeah, getting people off their couches surely does look like a pipe dream.
-- gewg_