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Bush's Tip To Employers For How To Avoid Paying Overtime

You’ve done so much to stop the Bush administration’s attack on overtime pay. Now an article by The Associated Press reveals the Bush Labor Department provides tips to employers about how they can avoid paying low-wage workers overtime pay.

The Bush attack on overtime pay and the U.S. Labor Department’s outrageous misuse of your tax dollars to cut paychecks for millions of workers must stop now. Please click on the link below to take action or keep reading to learn more. http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/voteforovertime/8n3ugezptw5ne

President Bush’s Labor Department wants to ram through the overtime pay cut—which could take overtime pay away from 8 million private-sector workers—in March. But Democratic Senate leaders say they will push to include an overtime pay protection guarantee in legislation due for a Senate vote Jan. 20.

We can make a difference—last year both the U.S. House and Senate voted to protect overtime pay after hearing from thousands and thousands of activists like you. Republican leaders and the Bush administration strong-armed members to drop the overtime pay protection from the omnibus federal budget bill—but our allies on Capitol Hill are still working overtime to protect our paychecks. Please take one minute right to send a fax to your senators with a copy to President Bush by clicking on the link below. Urge them to continue the filibuster that can stop Bush’s attack on workers’ paychecks. http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/voteforovertime/8n3ugezptw5ne

Just how cynical and anti-worker is the Bush administration attack on overtime pay? Bush’s Labor Department has published a “summary” of the overtime pay cut rules giving employers clear suggestions on how they can avoid paying overtime to low-wage workers, according to the AP report.

The Bush Labor Department’s options for ducking overtime pay include cutting workers’ hourly wages to make regular and overtime pay equal to the original salary. Such a “payroll adjustment,” the summary says, would result “in virtually no, or only a minimal increase in, labor costs.” The summary also suggests employers could raise the salaries of workers just enough to make them ineligible for overtime under the new rules. Please click on the link below to take action or keep reading. http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/voteforovertime/8n3ugezptw5ne

After you take action, read the AP article revealing the Bush Labor Department’s outrageous advice to employers by clicking below: http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/IdqWsA51L1r7/

Your efforts have kept this fight alive, despite unprecedented pressure by the Bush administration and Republican congressional leaders. In addition to more than 1 million faxes and e-mails you have sent to the White House and Congress, more than 240,000 of you have signed petitions demanding that Bush withdraw his overtime pay scheme and end threats to veto legislation that would block the overtime pay take-away. You have showed up at dozens of demonstrations on Capitol Hill, at lawmakers’ homes and district offices and at Bush fund-raising events. On Jan. 5, more than 700 of you protesting Bush’s overtime grab in St. Louis were met by police in riot gear—but as you know, we won’t be stopped.

If you haven’t yet, please take action by clicking on the link below. http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/voteforovertime/8n3ugezptw5ne

Then, please spread the word to your friends, family, co-workers and others you know who want to protect workers from the Bush administration attacks on overtime pay by clicking below. http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/voteforovertime/forward/8n3ugezptw5ne