And now for my third assessment on how Trump and his axis are attacking the working family. I've covered his resistance to the fiduciary rule that would have prevented retirement fund managers from scamming the savings workers put aside for retirement (no one had an answer to that one) and I covered his tax policy that WILL cut services to working families while creating a record-breaking $1 trillion deficit. This third exhibit focuses on his pressure to force arbitration.

Unlike the tax cut scam, this assault is not so much a direct attack as it is a disabling of protections. So like the fiduciary rule that is designed to protect retirement savings, the fight to allow workers the right to take their employers to court when their employers have violated state, local or even federal labor laws is being denied.

This is a somewhat complicated issue, which many people won't have the patience to understand, so instead of explaining this myself only to be told that I'm too wordy, I'm going to refer to this very well-written article that explains the recent Supreme Court decision on the matter and some background to put the decision (and my opinion) in context. If you prefer simple statements that lack detail, feel free to fast forward to my conclusion...

http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/05/opinion-analysis-employers-prevail-in-arbitration-case/

Conclusion:
With new forced arbitration clauses becoming popular with employers, workers are being forced to give up their rights as citizens to bring grievances to court. This effectively gives the employers the right to ignore labor laws and treat their workers any way they want. Since the court decision, penned by Gorsuch, was finalized last week, an estimated 60 million workers have lost their rights this way. This is what I call a silent attack on the working family because the crimes occur in the private sector and the refusal by Trump and the Republicans in the public sector to do anything to protect the workers from these crimes insure that the crimes themselves and any resulting arbitration will remain private business and therefore unseen by the public.

This isn't the first time Americans have been here, in 1925 The Federal Arbitration Act, backed up the employers who wanted to block their workers from the courts and force them to settle disputes directly with their employers. But nine years later it was becoming increasingly obvious that the workers have no leverage as arbitration often came down to "do you want to keep your job?" So The National Labor Relations Act was passed to allow workers to arbitrate collectively, so not the worker can answer the previous question with "do you want production to halt?" At least this way the table is even. But recently, companies have been adding clauses to their arbitration agreements that say workers cannot collectively arbitrate. This too was enforced by the court decision and now American workers can't even rally together.

There is no doubt this will cause almost every employer in the nation to include similar arbitration agreements as a means of limiting liability and this will no doubt make our labor laws moot. I can pay someone 65 cents an hour and work him for 16 hours a day and even though I'd be breaking labor laws it wouldn't matter if the worker can't even take m to court.

Make no mistake... If you are a working class American like I am (any American that needs to work for a living) Trump is NOT your friend... he is your ENEMY!

And now for my third assessment on how Trump and his axis are attacking the working family. I've covered his resistance to the fiduciary rule that would have prevented retirement fund managers from scamming the savings workers put aside for retirement (no one had an answer to that one) and I covered his tax policy that WILL cut services to working families while creating a record-breaking $1 trillion deficit. This third exhibit focuses on his pressure to force arbitration.

Unlike the tax cut scam, this assault is not so much a direct attack as it is a disabling of protections. So like the fiduciary rule that is designed to protect retirement savings, the fight to allow workers the right to take their employers to court when their employers have violated state, local or even federal labor laws is being denied.

This is a somewhat complicated issue, which many people won't have the patience to understand, so instead of explaining this myself only to be told that I'm too wordy, I'm going to refer to this very well-written article that explains the recent Supreme Court decision on the matter and some background to put the decision (and my opinion) in context. If you prefer simple statements that lack detail, feel free to fast forward to my conclusion...

http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/05/opinion-analysis-employers-prevail-in-arbitration-case/

Conclusion:
With new forced arbitration clauses becoming popular with employers, workers are being forced to give up their rights as citizens to bring grievances to court. This effectively gives the employers the right to ignore labor laws and treat their workers any way they want. Since the court decision, penned by Gorsuch, was finalized last week, an estimated 60 million workers have lost their rights this way. This is what I call a silent attack on the working family because the crimes occur in the private sector and the refusal by Trump and the Republicans in the public sector to do anything to protect the workers from these crimes insure that the crimes themselves and any resulting arbitration will remain private business and therefore unseen by the public.

This isn't the first time Americans have been here, in 1925 The Federal Arbitration Act, backed up the employers who wanted to block their workers from the courts and force them to settle disputes directly with their employers. But nine years later it was becoming increasingly obvious that the workers have no leverage as arbitration often came down to "do you want to keep your job?" So The National Labor Relations Act was passed to allow workers to arbitrate collectively, so not the worker can answer the previous question with "do you want production to halt?" At least this way the table is even. But recently, companies have been adding clauses to their arbitration agreements that say workers cannot collectively arbitrate. This too was enforced by the court decision and now American workers can't even rally together.

There is no doubt this will cause almost every employer in the nation to include similar arbitration agreements as a means of limiting liability and this will no doubt make our labor laws moot. I can pay someone 65 cents an hour and work him for 16 hours a day and even though I'd be breaking labor laws it wouldn't matter if the worker can't even take m to court.

Make no mistake... If you are a working class American like I am (any American that needs to work for a living) Trump is NOT your friend... he is your ENEMY!

Straight up, maybe you would like the special I.m having this week only. Clues I sell for $7.00 a piece this week are only 3 for $25. You must have not seen any news this week or been watching CNN. Over a million jobs have been created since the tax cut took effect. Black Unemployment is at an all time low. America took back this month the nation with the most robust economy. A title we lost under obama in 2015.Here is a free clue to impress your friends After the election of worthless for over a year for the first and only time in my life I saw the construction trade end. Not slow down but end and for the next 16 months it stayed ended. Stimulus? $787 billion. IF ANY OF THAT MONEY MADE IT TO THE BANKS TELL ME HOW IT WOULD BRING US OUT OF A DEAD COUNTRY WITH NO JOBS WHEN BANKS WERE MAKING MORE INTEREST IF THEY HELD THE CASH AND NOT LOAN IT OUT? Lets see how many billions was Trump given to get the job market going?
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You failed to include a warning to the Democrat party running the two programs was in danger by letting blacks but houses with no ability to pay the mortgages.

They would destroy the value of the property and have so much damage to repair the mortgage holders lost billions.

Most lived in the new homes for almost a year and never paid a note until they finally were removed.


Semper Fi brother's and sisters and the true America patriots everywhere and may. Old glory fly over the land of the free and home of the brave.

pafret, I do appreciate your effort here but you realize you just made a liar of yourself right? You said (and I quote) "His list of goals was the foundation of his candidacy" you also described those goals as being "enumerated and publicly stated".

But what you came up with is a list 276 items that was compiled by a journalist that had nothing to do with Trump's campaign. In fact the list originally only included 76 items and was later expanded from a "collection of Trump’s speeches, public comments, tweets and campaign and transition websites."

When people say a candidate's goals are the "foundation of his candidacy" they usually assume the candidate actually has a formalized list of his own, like Obama, who published his goals with detailed strategies in the form of a book, well ahead of his campaign trail. Now, I realize that Trump supporters aren't exactly the book-reading type, so maybe it wasn't important to the Trump camp and that's fine but don't sit there with a list that some journalist compiled of the various comments Trump made DURING his campaign and say it's the foundation of his candidacy.

And since the author DID compile this list from a collection of speeches, public comments, tweet and websites, each of these items could very well be just whatever nonsense crossed Trumps mind at various moments during these events. Trump is constantly saying things off the cuff and people have noticed his inconsistencies and self contradictions.

I've also noticed how the number of items on a list seems to make an impression on deplorables. They seem to think that a list of 10 well thought out ideas can be beaten by a list of 100 idiot statements, or that a lie can become true if it's repeated enough times. It's weird, but I can tell you right now, a list of ten well thought out ideas would make a much better impression on me than this list of... 276 off-the-cuff comments by a compulsive liar.

Sorry pafret... I hope your didn't exhaust yourself with all that copy-pasting. ;)