Republicans and Trump kill anti-wage-theft rule, will funnel your taxes to companies that rob and endanger workers

The Obama-era Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule was intended to prevent companies with a history of wage-theft and unsafe working conditions from getting federal government contracts; the GOP in the Senate and House passed a bill rescinding this rule and then Trump signed it, eliminating any possibility that companies that endanger and steal from workers will be excluded from receiving your tax dollars. (more…) source: https://boingboing.net/2018/03/25/killing-workers-is-speech.html #Headlines by: Cory Doctorow

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