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Hello to the Daily Kos community. I come to you again asking for help. As always, you can read about the Section 14 Survivors Committee and the cause that we struggle for here: www.theguardian.com/… here: www.latimes.com/… and various other websites...
by izqu
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 02:56 PM PDT
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From the late 1950’s through the 1960’s, residents of Palm Springs California, playground of the stars and home of the rich, were kicked out of their homes and had their homes bulldozed, burned down or destroyed in other ways. For some people this...
by izqu
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on Sun Sep 24, 2023 at 09:26 PM PDT
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Detroit’s three big automakers failed to negotiate a new contract with the United Auto Workers Thursday night, triggering a targeted strike that could spread if a deal isn’t reached. General ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Sep 15, 2023 at 03:50 PM PDT
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I’ve been trying to do a Google search on the following:� in a defamation case like Dominion’s�lawsuit against Fox, can a judge or jury in the case force Fox to issue a public apology from Fox, ...
by Merlin196357
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on Wed Mar 08, 2023 at 03:42 AM PST
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California Has a $97.5 Billion Budget Surplus; Refuses to Compensate Its Judicial Misconduct Victims I. Introduction. California is in a Judicial Corruption Crisis, and has been, since the mid to late 1980s when Los Angeles County began paying “supplemental or local judicial benefits” to California State Superior judges sitting on the California State...
by Richard Fine
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on Sun Sep 11, 2022 at 11:29 AM PDT
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by izqu
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on Wed Sep 07, 2022 at 06:03 PM PDT
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Wells Fargo agreed to pay $185 million in penalties for perpetuating a massive fraud on the American people back in 2016. Wells Fargo boasted it had also laid off 5,300 employees who had helped perpetuate that lie. Not surprisingly, none of the big...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Sep 02, 2022 at 10:26 AM PDT
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During May and June of 2020, Colorado saw statewide protests in response to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Unlike the Jan. 6, 2021 attempted coup d’etat in Washington, D.C., protesters were predominantly...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Apr 14, 2022 at 04:47 PM PDT
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This essay explains how tipped employees are compensated and how much cash they earn each week. The federal minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.13 cash an hour. The law presumes people paid $2.13 an hour earn at least $5.12 an hour in tips, so...
by 888guy
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on Sun Jan 17, 2021 at 08:00 PM PST
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Since the COVID-19 pandemic reached the United States, and spread relatively unimpeded for the first few weeks, thousands of workers have contracted the virus. This, of course, has resulted in thousands of workers’ compensation claims. However, like...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Sep 08, 2020 at 11:07 AM PDT
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The BBC is reporting that families of Indonesian victims of the crash of the Lion Air Boeing 737 Max have been cheated out of claiming compensation from Boeing in the American courts.
All 189 passengers and crew died when the Boeing 737 Max...
by Lib Dem FoP
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on Thu Jul 11, 2019 at 04:33 PM PDT
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CBS has announced that it is giving Les Moonves at least 80 million dollars in compensation, and it could reach as high as 100 million dollars. Not sure how much of this is supposed to be in stock. However, CBS said the amount of the compensation...
by Merlin1963
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on Sun Sep 09, 2018 at 03:31 PM PDT
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American 1 Credit Union CEO Martha Fuerstenau announced more than $950,000 in combined annual raises for almost all of its 187 employees last month. The only staff member excluded? Fuerstenau herself.
The credit union's 186 other employees...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Thu May 24, 2018 at 01:16 PM PDT
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Well, this is refreshing: Nearly 700 doctors, residents and med students in Quebec, Canada, are protesting a planned 1.4 percent increase in their compensation, requesting that the provincial health ministry instead redistribute those funds to nurses,...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Mon Mar 12, 2018 at 04:48 PM PDT
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Ronald Reagan’s response to the 1981 air traffic controllers strike is universally regarded as a massive blow to organized labor, with repercussions that are still being felt by those in America’s workforce today. Despite this act of mass destruction...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Thu Mar 01, 2018 at 03:32 PM PST
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Fat Tuesday is Mardi Gras, a day of revelry, gluttony, intoxication and showers of shiny plastic beads. It is the party to end all parties because it’s followed by Ash Wednesday, when Lenten sacrifices commence.
Fat Cat Tuesday is the day – Jan. 2,...
by Leo W Gerard
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on Fri Jan 12, 2018 at 07:41 AM PST
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We have heard a lot recently that Obama is planning to accept $400,000 — his annual salary as president — for a speech to be given at a Wall Street healthcare conference this September . ...
by Dale Read
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 05:05 PM PDT
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It’s interesting to note that the quote, “ A rising tide lifts all boats” is often mistakenly attributed to Ronald Reagan, who frequently employed the phrase to promote Trickle down economics. But it was actually JFK, having borrowed it from a...
by JohnJRighteous
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on Wed Nov 02, 2016 at 03:36 PM PDT
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Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf wants to keep his job. Last week, Stumpf appeared in front of a Senate Committee hearing and was eviscerated by Senator Elizabeth Warren. Sen. Warren called Stumpf’s tenure proof of “gutless leadership.” Sen. Warren told him...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Sep 28, 2016 at 09:04 AM PDT
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Corporate profits soar and workers do not share in the benefits (I’ll let others provide the facts and figures). How can this be addressed — realistically? Effectively?
Here is the idea I would like help investigating/critiquing/filling out: a...
by BeAwareAndSpeakUp
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on Wed Apr 06, 2016 at 10:34 AM PDT
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