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'Right to Work' Designed to Keep Black Workers Poor
In his commentary "Unions ignore long history of excluding minorities from jobs," Missouri Rep. Shamed Dogan (R) highlighted past discriminatory practices in organized labor’s history as reason for implementing our state’s currently pending "right to work" law, along with other anti-worker measures such as ending prevailing wage and minimum wage requirements.
To claim that unions continue to exclude minorities and are detrimental to working people is ridiculous and erroneous in the face of the facts. The truth is, enacting right to work and other anti-worker laws would only hurt the minority communities Dogan seeks to protect, by lowering wages, reducing benefits and limiting career opportunities.
Dogan claims that right to work is the key to helping black workers and stimulating the economy. This is contradictory to the racist history of such laws, which were originally conceived by a Texas lobbyist named Vance Muse. He hated unions, claiming "white women and white men will be forced into organizations with African apes…whom they will have to call 'brother' or lose their jobs."...
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Lauer admits there is some truth to the allegations and apologizes "to the people I have hurt."
GOP Tax Plan Is a Bad Deal for Women
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If you are looking for more reasons to oppose the GOP’s toxic tax plan, consider the impact it will have on women and families. It’s not just that women-headed households are less likely to be in the top 20%—those who have the most to gain from the GOP tax plan. The proposed GOP tax plan gives tax breaks to the wealthy while increasing taxes on working women. Women head 20% of households and, under this plan, they would end up paying more in taxes and seeing many important programs drastically cut or eliminated. This job-killing, multibillion-dollar giveaway to corporations (and the super-rich) is also a direct attack on the most vulnerable women and families in our country.
Which is why elected officials, women’s right groups, labor leaders and celebrities took to Twitter last night to highlight why the #GOPTaxPlan is a #BadDealForWomen.
This #GOPTaxPlan would raise taxes on countless women & families while giving tax breaks to the wealthy one percent #BadDealForWomen pic.twitter.com/xz2B5XcL11
— Liz Shuler (@lizshuler) November 28, 2017
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Lauer, the host of 'Today' for two decades, was terminated Wednesday from NBC News after a detailed complaint, said NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack.
A humorist and radio personality, Garrison Keillor is the latest celebrity to be publicly accused of misconduct while on the job.
Some 15,000 flights in the coming weeks are currently without pilots because of a computer scheduling glitch at American Airlines. NBC's Tom Costello reports for TODAY from Reagan National Airport in Washington.
Lauer was fired by NBC News after a female colleague made a detailed complaint accusing him of inappropriate sexual behavior beginning in 2014.
In the wake of Matt Lauer's firing from NBC News, more women have come forward with shocking and disturbing accusations. Lauer has issued a statement saying in part, "There are no words to express my sorrow and regret." NBC's Stephanie Gosk reports for TODAY.
