Watch now trump and the GOP to start backing,

[duforsure]

Companies to cut pay to workers ,even union workers. Trump will promote everyone's wages be cut claiming more bs excuses to give the owners, the wealthy, more money or protections from losses. They are already trying to cut health care and benefits. Wage cuts from trump will be demanded or else.

[2naSalit]

1. And McTurtle saying

there will be no more funding unless companies are exempt from litigation from employees who are forced back to work in unsafe conditions and if they get sick. So this attack is from the Senate as well. Perhaps putting it in an EO it absolves McTurtle from using that as a bludgeon in Congress.

Either way, there will be protest from the afflicted... us.

[spanone]

4. it's the republican wet dream of decades

[Captain Zero]

9. Disaster Capitalism

-Naomi Klein's books.

[2naSalit]

15. Yup.

She warned us.

[Progressive Jones]

14. A large enough protest to strike fear in GOP/Trump hearts. nt

[BComplex]

19. I hope like hell the democrats won't come to the table if it leaves the workers' surviving family

members hanging out to dry when their loved one (and provider) dies and the company can't be held responsible for not protecting their workers.

[ashredux]

2. Plan...open up companies, if you don't go back to work and get sick, you lose your unemployment beni

[jaxexpat]

3. Bingo!

Dat's da plan.
They used to use whips. We're much more civilized today.

[2naSalit]

5. +1

Look out fiefdom, here we come!

[LastDemocratInSC]

18. The signs placed at plant and mine entrances prior to 40 hour work week laws:

"If you don't come in on Sunday then don't come in on Monday"

Yes, the wing nuts want to return to the 19th century, or earlier.

[jaxexpat]

21. At the packing houses these days it's:

"If you don't come in as usual then expect a visit from INS on Monday" and deportation on Tuesday.

[Botany]

8. Yup!

Afraid to go back and work in the meat packing plant because of C-19?
Well, there goes your unemployment

[Lithos]

6. Another example of American Exceptionalism

No other industrial country in the world has had a political party contemplate any of these options. Wonder why.

L-

[gab13by13]

7. They already started cutting workers wages.

I'm pretty sure they even cut nurses and doctors wages at my small rural hospital.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Raise prices too

to pay for the lost business and spoilage. we are in for a hosing

[roamer65]

20. There is a way to combat it.

Only buy the essentials. Businesses will have to keep prices in line or they will go under.

[wiggs]

11. Correct. So, will dems be ahead of the curve and start asking for protections? Every day? nt

[Demsrule86]

12. The GOP is going to lose in a landslide if they do this...I think they are toast even now. We may

very well win the Senate, the presidency and retain the house.

[PoliWrangler]

13. Cheap Labor Republicans

From I_UndergroundPanther yesterday:

[link:https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213362839|

[Saviolo]

16. Here comes the austerity!

It's a little early, it really wasn't scheduled to start until the downward slope of the virus curve. Anyway, putting the screws to the poor and working class, cutting wages, cutting services, and cutting paid-in benefits is all par for the course for a Republican administration. Remember: This isn't Trumpism, this is the standard operating procedure for the GOP, and this was wholly predictable.

[KPN]

17. Edit: This post was meant in response to Saviolo's Post #16 above.

And I'll be pissed if we have one high level Democrat saying anything like "we all need toshoulder/share some of the pain" like I heard in 2008/09. That still gripes me to this day -- it directly affected my income at the time and continues to in retirement as a result today. After 30+ years of supply side economics dominating federal economic policy that one really hurt!

[rockfordfile]

22. Those companies should be boycotted if they do