and vacation. And you would be fired in an instant if you asked for overtime pay.

Until they punish corporations instead of giving them tax breaks for sending about a million jobs a year to Asia, nothing is going to change for the American worker.

And his commie overtime rules. Didn't Monty Python say it best:

TERRY JONES: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.

GRAHAM CHAPMAN: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

MICHAEL PALIN: Well, of course, we had it tough. We used to 'ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o'clock at night and lick road clean wit' tongue. We had two bits of cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at mill for sixpence every four years, and when we got home our Dad would slice us in two wit' bread knife.

ERIC IDLE: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.


And you try and tell a Republican of today that these things still happen in 2014 ..... they won't believe you, or they will tell you it's the American way.

the battle that finds the most of us under siege.
I find it disturbing that Mr. Obama must make the case "Overtime is a pretty simple idea" to 'REVISE' the rules on overtime rules.
In my Union shop "Overtime is the ONLY idea" and we are constantly making that case to those slobbering average workers of piss-poor performance who have done nothing less than 'REVERSE' the rules of overtime rules.
It is these slobbering average workers of piss-poor performance who attempt to replace the vastly experienced Union Toiler and the battle rages on....."Overtime is the ONLY idea" you piss-poor performing pricks....Game On....

There is still wrangling to do. As the article notes: