Attack on women and LGBTQ rights
Rules assisting working-class women were also set aside. Trump rescinded the “2014 Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces order President Barack Obama had put in place to ensure that companies with federal contracts comply with 14 labor and civil rights laws.”
The rule covered two issues affecting women workers: paycheck transparency and forced arbitration clauses for sexual harassment, sexual assault, or discrimination claims.
The paycheck transparency rule addressed the problem that out of the 50 worst wage-theft violators that the Government Accountability Office examined between 2005-2009, 60% had been awarded federal contracts even after being penalized by the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. The rule barred the granting of federal contracts to companies involved in wage theft.
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With Trump’s defeat, the country stands on the threshold of a new political period. One phase of the anti-right struggle, the battle for the presidency and Congress, is almost complete. Another phase, the struggle for the soul of the nation, is now taking shape.
Things are shifting, albeit slowly, even dangerously, but overall in a better direction. The Supreme Court’s apparently unanimous one-sentence refusal to hear the GOP’s challenge to the Pennsylvania vote was an important nudge forward.
Trump and company are now on the defensive and attempting to regroup by challenging the very legitimacy of the election. Some 80% of Republicans have taken the bait. With an eye toward the GOP base and fearing Trump’s wrath, only 28 Republican members of Congress so far have acknowledged that there’s a president-elect, a pressure sure to impact current negotiations for a stimulus to say nothing of their attitude toward the new administration.
When the radical socialists in Congress and in the streets of America started giving more and more rhetorical and chanting time to Democratic Socialism, half of America were enchanted, and half of America laughed. Such a construct aimed at re-defining socialism the American way was not to be taken seriously but it was. Young Millennials, egged on by seasoned members of the Communist Party USA, were going to build a better America, a Democrat Socialist America, free of capitalism.
Their explanation was that all the former Communist Party tyrants who obliterated over 100 million of their own people and enslaved the rest for most of the twentieth century were bumbling idiots. These American socialist wannabes who did not understand economics, politics, or knew geography at all, were going to do it better and thus succeed.
| Updated December 16, 2020
Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) is out with a new biographical campaign video touting his family roots and his successful business career as he fights to hold on to his seat ahead of a Jan. 5 runoff against Democrat Jon Ossoff.
The biographical information is nearly identical to a video he put out in 2014, with a key difference: The new one removes a mention of the two years he spent in Hong Kong working for Sara Lee and takes out a picture of him and his wife at the Great Wall of China.
David Perdue Senate campaign ad
Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) put this picture in his 2014 ad, but he removed it from a nearly identical ad for this campaign.
Verify: Fact-checking claims made in political ads and online against Georgia Senate runoff candidates
Political ads are flooding all platforms in Georgia making claims against candidates Perdue, Ossoff, Loeffler, and Warnock. We verify what s true and what s not. Author: Lindsey Basye, 11Alive Verify Team Published: 7:55 PM EST November 30, 2020 Updated: 12:21 PM EST December 18, 2020
ATLANTA Millions of dollars are being spent in Georgia on ads for and against each candidate in the two runoff races that will determine the balance of power in the Senate.
Our 11Alive Verify Team is fact-checking what is being said in the political ads and online ahead of the January 5 runoff election.