Comments on: Continuing the March toward Equality

By: Gillian Lewis

Gillian Lewis — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:08:54 +0000

Maybe all members of Congress need to be asked publicly – Are you happy for your wife or daughters or granddaughters to be paid less because of their gender?

I agree with Marleine – How about forcing these Senators to declare their intentions toward women’s equality, as well as the ideal of equal pay for equal work, regardless of gender?

By: Ken Schuffler

Ken Schuffler — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:31:10 +0000

FIGHT ON SISTERS!

Of course with the Republicans now in congress, we will have to fight harder for
our principles (the Republicans being the anti-democratic, racist and chauvinist political machine that they are).

I’m a man, but also an American and because of that fact, I support the rights of women and all minorities to achieve equality. SAME WORK SHOULD HAVE EQUAL PAY.

The republicans are afraid of freedom because the freer the people are the further removed from their Military Police state they become.

By: FAIR PAY should also be an issues with UNIONS and EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PRACTICES

FAIR PAY should also be an issues with UNIONS and EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PRACTICES — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 03:00:59 +0000

My husband is being overlooked on getting a promotion with the Gas Company he works for in Cleveland,Ohio.
He has been there 5 years and while others were promoted on based on the same or lesser seniority,he was denied without just cause after trying to post for positions and is not getting fair representation by his Union representative.
He doesnt take sick time and is a timely and efficient worker.
He volunteered for the safety committee and has taken courses to help better his position but to no avail.
Please have the workers rights policy be reviewed for ALL workers to help American workers seek fairness and justice in the workplace.
This is happening more in companies who chose to play FAVORITES.
One observation my husband noted is there is a high degree of IRISH in his profession so there is a political climate that should be considered in reviewing this EQUAL pay law since he is being denied opportunities for no just cause!
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE PRESIDENT work more towards enacting merit and fairness towards the goal of equality for those who seek and should NOT BE DISCRIMATED AGAINST regarding

GENDER
AGE
ETHICITY
RACE
SEX
Please put mandates on EMPLOYERS by penalizing them who deny equal opportunity and and have them assessed YEARLY with EQUALITY standards in place so that they who continue to unfairly justify advancement of workers whether it be union or not to bypass workers based on personal bias or unjustified disqualification from job opportunities and not allow them the right to equal opportinities for advancement in the workplace.

Sincerely,
Marilyn Dinard

By: Keith V Stracchino

Keith V Stracchino — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:18:02 +0000

We need to publish and disseminate widely the names of Senators who use Filibusters and Holds to block the passage of legislation; those names should be disseminated as widely as possible on a national scale, so that we can hold these Senators publically accountable for their undemocratic practices. It is an absurdity that a single senator can block the passage of a bill, that is the kind of behaviour we expect of a malevolent dictatorship, not a democracy!

By: What We’ve Been Reading « Politics Power Sex

What We’ve Been Reading « Politics Power Sex — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:24:12 +0000

[...] Well, it may be 2010, but apparently we still can’t have wage equality. [...]

By: Gina Kray

Gina Kray — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:21:55 +0000

Republicans, I have one question especially to those of you who claim to be Christians, Why can you not support legislation that supports equal pay for equal work? At the moment white men have the advantage in the work place when it comes to pay yet women and others contribute equally therefore why are they not paid equally? I thought equality was a Christian value and that all (wo)men are equal therefore why perpetuate and suppress others by withholding equal pay for equal work. I thought another Christian principle was to set the downtrodden free and yet for the most part I see Republicans doing the opposite voting for legislation that keeps the downtrodden , downtrodden and keeps the elite, elite. Hypocrisy sums it up.

By: Chuck Wegrzyn

Chuck Wegrzyn — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:30:28 +0000

I’d like to know who blocked it.

By: Priscilla Smith

Priscilla Smith — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:36:27 +0000

Women must be paid a fair wage. I never was.

By: Susan French

Susan French — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:47:44 +0000

Yay us! Damn the torpedos. Full speed ahead.

Thank you all for your extraordinary efforts on behalf of the greater than 50% of the American public.

Let me know what I can do in my meager way to help.

Susan French

Senior Woman Standing for the Re-Election of Barack Obama
and the reinstatement of Democratic Party control.

By: Nancy Carulli

Nancy Carulli — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:30:21 +0000

As usual this is status quo for the Republicans- don’t do what is just and fair…do what benefits the political party. Your article left me wondering…WHO took part in the filibuster. Please name names. The democrats need to fight in the public arena. We need to make our voices heard. We need to be writing letters to our local newspapers. Sadly most citizens are too busy and too oblivious to what goes on.