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Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS ACT&qu... - 6/5/2012 1:31:16 PM   
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The Senate failed to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS ACT" also known as the "FAIR PAY ACT" and other assorted clever names. It proposes to close perceived loopholes in the existing laws, loopholes that provide the employer defenses in paying for different skillsets and other non-gender criterion. It's purpose is to buy important votes from women and prove the GOP is at war against women. This is because these recent bills are not supposed to pass. Instead they are supposed to force the GOP to vote against them and in doing so make the Dems look good and the GOP bad.

Each bill cannot pass (the Dems hope) because they all contain some show stopper bomb, included on purpose, because even the Dems would not really let this latest bill pass if they had the choice because it would hurt businesses by strapping them with unworkable requirements that will at the best cost employers more to pay women what men make even though the women cannot produce the same in many manual labor positions and also must take off for maturnity care and other lifestyle requirements and so are more costly to hire in those manual labor occupations that depend on a steady work history. It also requires the employer to justify in writing why it paid woman "A" less than man 'A' doing the same job.

Equal pay for equal work. This is the law already. And it is difficult to work with but less so because it is simplier to show women cannot work at the same level of output in many manual labor positions such as on an assembly line or a contruction job or even a job stocking or warehousing unless the job is aided by equalizing automations such as in a forklift operator, and one will find women equally paid already in those positions unless they take more time off for motherhood and lose senority opportunities to men and other female lifestyle activities which more and more women need to do since going to two working parent households or single parent households, both of which are prevalent today.

So, if the employer must pay equally for unequal work or go through all the legal entanglements needed to justify the lower pay, which would result in a high cost either way, then they must move overseas where such laws do not exist or they must instead go to an less female workforce in these types of jobs by legally setting strength and endurance standards for this type of work, standards that few women can meet, thereby losing more jobs for women to men. The dnd result is and old story with these Dem bills, more regulation costs, more jobs moving overseas while all the while the Dems play it like they actually did something "for the women".

Of course it was not meant to pass and trigger and cause all these very bad results, so the Senate Dems are depending on the GOP to do the right thing and vote it down It's a game that most thinking voters recognized for what it is and will give the GOP credit for doing what it must do to protect jobs and encourage industry to return to the U.S. and not more to leave, and they will vote accordingly today in Wisconsin and in November.

Well wishes.

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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 1:33:34 PM   
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The cows are not dropping butter here today.

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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 1:39:45 PM   
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Hi Canadian. Nice trolling.

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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 1:48:09 PM   
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Canadian?  Like your original rushfelching post #1, contains not a fact.   If I am trolling, what do you call it when someone writes (and mostly plagarized) asswipe that shames even blithering idiots for its lack of facts and reason, and thinks themself a clever boy?



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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 1:51:30 PM   
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Hi Canadian. Nice trolling.

His nick tells you where he's from and it sure as hell isn't canuckland.

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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 1:52:29 PM   
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And I am an honorably discharged veteran of these United States, something else he aint.

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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 1:56:03 PM   
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Obama pushing such thing shows where his focus is: making doing business as difficult as possible in the US.  

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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 1:59:34 PM   
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Obama pushing such thing shows where his focus is: making doing business as difficult as possible in the US.  

Yeah I can't tell you how hard it was when I was hiring programmers to offer the same starting salary to women as to men.

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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 2:06:54 PM   
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And it is difficult to work with but less so because it is simplier to show women cannot work at the same level of output in many manual labor positions such as on an assembly line or a contruction job


I worked for around 10 years in traditionally male fields - Munitions System Specialist in the USAF and machine operator. I never found my output to be less, in fact, the guy on second shift kept asking me to slow down cuz I was making him look bad. We did have those newfangled forklifts and pallet jacks.

I was surprised to learn that the wage gap is lowest in the Construction industry.





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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 2:10:23 PM   
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I was surprised to learn that the wage gap is lowest in the Construction industry.

Construction is heavily unionized so a carpenter or laborer gets paid according to the contract no matter their gender.

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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 2:23:12 PM   
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The Senate failed to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS ACT" also known as the "FAIR PAY ACT" and other assorted clever names. It proposes to close perceived loopholes in the existing laws, loopholes that provide the employer defenses in paying for different skillsets and other non-gender criterion. It's purpose is to buy important votes from women and prove the GOP is at war against women. This is because these recent bills are not supposed to pass. Instead they are supposed to force the GOP to vote against them and in doing so make the Dems look good and the GOP bad.

Each bill cannot pass (the Dems hope) because they all contain some show stopper bomb, included on purpose, because even the Dems would not really let this latest bill pass if they had the choice because it would hurt businesses by strapping them with unworkable requirements that will at the best cost employers more to pay women what men make even though the women cannot produce the same in many manual labor positions and also must take off for maturnity care and other lifestyle requirements and so are more costly to hire in those manual labor occupations that depend on a steady work history. It also requires the employer to justify in writing why it paid woman "A" less than man 'A' doing the same job.

Equal pay for equal work. This is the law already. And it is difficult to work with but less so because it is simplier to show women cannot work at the same level of output in many manual labor positions such as on an assembly line or a contruction job or even a job stocking or warehousing unless the job is aided by equalizing automations such as in a forklift operator, and one will find women equally paid already in those positions unless they take more time off for motherhood and lose senority opportunities to men and other female lifestyle activities which more and more women need to do since going to two working parent households or single parent households, both of which are prevalent today.

So, if the employer must pay equally for unequal work or go through all the legal entanglements needed to justify the lower pay, which would result in a high cost either way, then they must move overseas where such laws do not exist or they must instead go to an less female workforce in these types of jobs by legally setting strength and endurance standards for this type of work, standards that few women can meet, thereby losing more jobs for women to men. The dnd result is and old story with these Dem bills, more regulation costs, more jobs moving overseas while all the while the Dems play it like they actually did something "for the women".

Of course it was not meant to pass and trigger and cause all these very bad results, so the Senate Dems are depending on the GOP to do the right thing and vote it down It's a game that most thinking voters recognized for what it is and will give the GOP credit for doing what it must do to protect jobs and encourage industry to return to the U.S. and not more to leave, and they will vote accordingly today in Wisconsin and in November.

Well wishes.


I think I figured out what you're saying.

1. A bill was voted down.
2. You claim that the bill would have required employers to produce justification for not paying men and women equally.
3. You claim that the requirements would have been onerous and would have made employers move jobs overseas.
4. You claim that the Dems knew it would never pass GOP opposition and did this for show only.

Okay.

The requirement for justifying different pay shouldn't be onerous. If Bill has worked longer than Mary, has more college degrees than Mary, or more commendations in his file than Mary, he should get paid more. if he's less or equally valuable to the company based on measurable criteria, he shouldn't. The justification shouldn't take more than two minutes to document. I cannot imagine a company claiming that the two minutes is so onerous that they're offshoring jobs and spending Lord knows how much time researching a new country's labor laws, tariffs, etc.

Serving constituencies is the name of the game. Bush tried to reach out to Jews, Obama has reached out to college students, Clinton reached out to women (literally) (sorry, I couldn't resist) , etc. For some unaccountable reason, the GOP has been almost deliberately alienating women, Hispanics, and gays lately. Had the bill passed, the Dems would not have been displeased. I have no idea why the GOP chose to block it, but they made that choice.

You seem to feel that the jobs that have left the US during Clinton's, Bush's, and Obama's terms only left when a Dem was President. I'm not sure why.


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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 2:56:40 PM   
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I'm neither a Democrat nor Republican. I want to make this perfectly clear. Also, mind you this is one of the worst congresses the US has ever had. I could go on a rant about the various scumbags in both parties right now.

A lot of businesses are failing because of their own internal arrogance and stupidity. Some places are jamming high productivity out their doors while failing extremely bad at Quality control. I've seen some real pieces of work from people cranking out production like mad. Sure many businesses have gone over seas, and guess what? The Quality of parts of things made, well... still is crappy. If not more so.

There's the cost on Returns, and writing off bad items from hasty production. We got on this fast track since WWII.

Sure Automation has taken away jobs, even helped make things easier. Some of these more physical jobs, there's a hidden price to be paid. People get hurt easier, or the injury is greater. The stress upon the human body only takes so much. There are plenty of people with shoulder injuries and etc. The kind of things that can happen to a professional football or sports player.

Businesses in general don't look to improve upon practices or procedures unless they are forced to do so. Businesses are in the job to make money, not innovate, nor even hire people. Most businesses, don't have jack shit down in their plans about the innovations they want to make, nor even about how many people they hope to one day hire.

Most businesses, want to spend as little as money as possible in the production of goods and services as humanly possible..in order to do what they are in business for... and that's to make money.

I don't find any fault with a business wanting/needing to make money. However, they can and will take short cuts in the process. At times even violating what's considered to be morally and ethically acceptable by society.

Now some societies in the world, such as Germany or Japan. Those people are clear cut innovators. It's not only about the $$$ to be earned. But how well they can do shit.

To be honest, there are a lot of Lazy people in the US workforce. However, the same holds true with Businesses. A lot of lazy MoFo's that want to take the short cuts, and do as little as possible.

This is a cultural attitude in general.

Quantity does not equal Quality. There's something to be said for working for a Quality Business. What's pretty amazing is to see Private (none publicly traded businesses) which seem to get it. While many of the Publicly traded businesses on Wall Street are trying to squeeze out the bottom lines to a pencil neck Geek behind a desk, running an equally screwed up game of making money with investors.

Bottom line is, is that there needs to be Rules and Regulations in place. (like the 10 commandments) to keep shit in check. Else, you damn well know somebody is going to be taking advantage in screwing somebody else over. The difference between how hard they will be screwing other people over.

Even the Consumers which buy products/services get the screw job at times. Many businesses feel the effects of loosing business from customers. All because the Business along the various people they've employed really don't give a shit about anything besides making money. Most people that go to work, simply do it for a paycheck. This includes management and people which own the business.

Imagine the changes in everything, if... people well simply gave a fuck more about what they were doing. Instead of a lot of people which are mentally and physically becoming more lazy and dare I say it "Stupid".



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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 3:26:50 PM   
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Are you aware that the Senate has a Democratic majority?

Kind of a problem for your theory.

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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 4:34:38 PM   
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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

Canadian?  Like your original rushfelching post #1, contains not a fact.   If I am trolling, what do you call it when someone writes (and mostly plagarized) asswipe that shames even blithering idiots for its lack of facts and reason, and thinks themself a clever boy?




What was plagerized? What was indicated as anything but my opinion?
When can someone not voice their opinion on the forum without being insulted by a troller?

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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 4:47:34 PM   
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Are you aware that the Senate has a Democratic majority?

Kind of a problem for your theory.


Very aware.

Read my opinion more closely. The theory is the Democrats do not want this to pass and depend on the GOP to vote against it in the Senate. The Dems can still claim victory by putting forth the bill now in an election year as if nobody noticed the need for such a bill over the last say several decades.

The GOP were able to prevent the vote taking place by a two vote lead helped by a turncoat Democrat. Now why would the Dems hate it if the bill actually got through the Senate and then the GOP owned House? Because they too know it's bad for jobs, after all, we compete globally for jobs now and if we continue to heap more regulations and corporate taxes then we make it less desirable to move factories back to the U.S.

The vote was prevented with a filibuster by the GOP with the help of a Democratic "turncoat" who somehow decided to do the normally unthinkable and break with party lines, although, I think he was the designated GOP helper to help stop the bill.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/17/republicans-block-paycheck-fairness-act_n_784849.html
WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats were unable to overcome a Republican filibuster of the Paycheck Fairness Act on Tuesday, with the chamber falling two votes short of the 60 needed to end debate and proceed to a vote on the measure that would help combat wage discrimination on the basis of gender.

The vote broke down along party lines with the exception of sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), who sided with Republicans and voted against cloture.


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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 4:58:46 PM   
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Bottom line is, is that there needs to be Rules and Regulations in place. (like the 10 commandments) to keep shit in check. Else, you damn well know somebody is going to be taking advantage in screwing somebody else over. The difference between how hard they will be screwing other people over.


Great post.

I don't disagree with you in principle. Then I remember our industry and middle class wages went to countries who do not tax or make companies jump through hoops like this bill and others and it is because they could do business more cheaply over there. Period.

Therefore, since we complete for the jobs or starve then we must forsake the progressive utopia that does not exist and compete to bring these jobs back by making it cheaper to make things here. We have a shot now that we have the cheapest natural gass reserves in the world and industry needs cheap energy and low taxes and a willing workforce minus over regulation, leaving regulation that is tolerable to industry because we need industry and they will go where the grass is greener and these regulations make it less greaner.

So we must be realistic and stop this nonsense and admit the real world is a market place were we compete for jobs and if they want to pay women less than men because they value women on an assembly line less then that is the market and that is the way it is. Take it or leave it.

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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 5:05:49 PM   
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And it is difficult to work with but less so because it is simplier to show women cannot work at the same level of output in many manual labor positions such as on an assembly line or a contruction job


I worked for around 10 years in traditionally male fields - Munitions System Specialist in the USAF and machine operator. I never found my output to be less, in fact, the guy on second shift kept asking me to slow down cuz I was making him look bad. We did have those newfangled forklifts and pallet jacks.

I was surprised to learn that the wage gap is lowest in the Construction industry.







There is perhaps something wrong with the graph, I know the Information industry well and that graph is way off for that industry unless it is focused on clerical postions held mostly by an extremely large number of women versus programming and project leader positions held by a less but still a large number of women almost equal to the men in count and equal in pay. This indicates to me the graph is not focused on equal pay for equal jobs but for all women in the industry category even though they do not work in a equal job.

However, the manufacturing looks right, accounted for by less work time by mothers how must leave the line for lifestyle reasons.

Construction is explained because the petite women does not work Construction. The women I see working that field might be men in a dark alley. Apologies to small women. Tam is a small women and would not be on a Contruction site.

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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 5:44:31 PM   
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Hi Canadian. Nice trolling.

MN stands for Minnesota. Are you that fucking stupid?

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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 7:31:10 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Arturas

The Senate failed to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS ACT" also known as the "FAIR PAY ACT" and other assorted clever names. It proposes to close perceived loopholes in the existing laws, loopholes that provide the employer defenses in paying for different skillsets and other non-gender criterion. It's purpose is to buy important votes from women and prove the GOP is at war against women. This is because these recent bills are not supposed to pass. Instead they are supposed to force the GOP to vote against them and in doing so make the Dems look good and the GOP bad.

Each bill cannot pass (the Dems hope) because they all contain some show stopper bomb, included on purpose, because even the Dems would not really let this latest bill pass if they had the choice because it would hurt businesses by strapping them with unworkable requirements that will at the best cost employers more to pay women what men make even though the women cannot produce the same in many manual labor positions and also must take off for maturnity care and other lifestyle requirements and so are more costly to hire in those manual labor occupations that depend on a steady work history. It also requires the employer to justify in writing why it paid woman "A" less than man 'A' doing the same job.

Equal pay for equal work. This is the law already. And it is difficult to work with but less so because it is simplier to show women cannot work at the same level of output in many manual labor positions such as on an assembly line or a contruction job or even a job stocking or warehousing unless the job is aided by equalizing automations such as in a forklift operator, and one will find women equally paid already in those positions unless they take more time off for motherhood and lose senority opportunities to men and other female lifestyle activities which more and more women need to do since going to two working parent households or single parent households, both of which are prevalent today.

So, if the employer must pay equally for unequal work or go through all the legal entanglements needed to justify the lower pay, which would result in a high cost either way, then they must move overseas where such laws do not exist or they must instead go to an less female workforce in these types of jobs by legally setting strength and endurance standards for this type of work, standards that few women can meet, thereby losing more jobs for women to men. The dnd result is and old story with these Dem bills, more regulation costs, more jobs moving overseas while all the while the Dems play it like they actually did something "for the women".

Of course it was not meant to pass and trigger and cause all these very bad results, so the Senate Dems are depending on the GOP to do the right thing and vote it down It's a game that most thinking voters recognized for what it is and will give the GOP credit for doing what it must do to protect jobs and encourage industry to return to the U.S. and not more to leave, and they will vote accordingly today in Wisconsin and in November.

Well wishes.


Ya know....you spent an AWFUL lot of effort to say that women are already getting their fair due.

Here's an easier way to say it:

1) None of these Congressmen/women in all their blather mention that in over 38% of the jobs they use as their stats mention that there are (38%) of jobs where women get paid more than men.

2) Nowhere do they mention that women leave jobs more often than men ergo....they're less likely to scale the ladder and when they come back, they're missing several years of the climb.

3) Except for some dumbfucks in this world (usually in the south), most men (and women) CEO's recognize a woman's worth and pay them accordingly and in many cases (at least in my organization) women make more than men. (Because they consistently and historically.....produce more than a man).

and finally....4) When women as a whole stop accepting 77% as the right to work....they'll get paid (more).

And dats da fact Jack.

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RE: Senate fails to pass the "PAYCHECK FAIRNESS AC... - 6/5/2012 7:38:51 PM   
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It`s a war on women LNN....a hot war with real damage and real casualties.....


Anyone who would take pleasure/pride with this or pee on the victims for fun needs to grow a real pair.....IMHO.

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