Let’s Get Women Out of the Red

http://www.afscme.org/blog/lets-get-women-out-of-the-red

April 17, 2012

Equal Work Deserves Equal Pay!This entry by AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee appears today on MomsRising.org which is partnering with the National Women’s Law Center to host today’s online blog carnival in support of Equal Pay Day.



Workers are under attack and women are bearing the brunt of it when it comes to pay. Who’s to blame? Corporate-backed politicians typified by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.

Last week, in the dead of night, Walker signed a piece of legislation that rolls back progress on pay equity in his state, where women make only 75 cents for every dollar a man earns doing the same job. (Wisconsin’s rate was already worse than the disheartening national average of 77 cents on the dollar.) Walker’s legislation repeals a 2009 law that made it easier for victims of wage discrimination to have their day in court.

His action adds another to the growing list of reasons Wisconsin voters want to recall him this June.

FULL story at link.