I wonder how many candidates run for office the second or third time around not because they expect to win, but because they need to do some additional fundraising
to pay for their last time around.
For more than four years, [Carly Fiorina] was a deadbeat and didn't pay the bills she owed for her Senate campaign. She only settled these outstanding debts just before she jumped into the 2016 race.
Until late last year, Fiorina was close to $500,000 in debt from her 2010 run, nearly all of it in unpaid compensation to campaign staffers and outside consultants, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
Seems to me that if you're running as a businessperson who knows how to business, stiffing your staff out of their back pay for almost half a decade—only caving when you decided you wanted to run for office again—would be bad form. Then again, maybe we're seeing the bold management strategies she used to "improve" Hewlett-Packard.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2001—H&M signs onto Bangladesh safety agreement as government plans minimum wage increase:
The search for bodies in Bangladesh's collapsed Rana Plaza has ended, leaving the official death toll at 1,127. The question now is whether the country's garment industry will see real change; there are promising signs, but will the promise be fulfilled as the disaster recedes from the headlines?
The government of Bangladesh is convening a minimum wage board to issue recommendations on raising the minimum wage in the garment industry; it's currently at $38, having been raised by 80 percent in 2010 after worker protests. Despite that big raise, it remains low by global standards. So, will the wage board—which will include factory owners, workers, and the government—raise wages by a meaningful amount, or will the momentum for change slow in the three months before its recommendations are slated to come out?
Additionally, the government is announcing that workers will now be allowed to form unions without first getting permission from the factory owners they work for. That's a good step, but there's a distance between saying workers no longer need permission and creating conditions that realistically make it possible for them to unionize:
"The issue is not really about making a new law or amending the old one," said Kalpana Akter of the Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity, a group campaigning for garment workers' rights. "In the past whenever workers tried to form associations they were subjected to beatings and harassment," she said. "The owners did not hesitate to fire such workers."
In recent years the government has cracked down on trade unions attempting to organize garment workers. In 2010 Hasina's government launched an Industrial Police force to crush street protests by thousands of workers demanding better pay and working conditions.
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today's Kagro in the Morning show: still pondering the bin Laden bombshell.
Greg Dworkin has an ancient history alert: Philip of Macedon's remains IDed? Gop 2016 field stumped by one weird trick! Jeb flubs Iraq question. Clinton moves toward everyone else on immigration. Another wild N. Korean execution story. TPP stalls. The coming debate clown show. TX considers outlawing law. At last, an oppressed florist speaks! More Tulsa Sheriff's Dept. resignations.
Joan McCarter with more on TPP, Jeb's gaffe & Zombie Reagan. Also: Jeb's dark $ empire, House back abortion yet again, surveillance bill voting, creepy apps bosses love, and Bob Corker's curious call for even
more surveillance.
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