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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (741179)	9/23/2013 2:28:42 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577225

>As far as I know, this is a case that any lawyer that specializes in labor law will accept. No union representation is necessary. Who making 13 bucks an hour can afford the kind of labor lawyer it takes to take on an international corporation? Particularly when the upside is like a couple hundred bucks a month, at best? >Sure, filing a lawsuit is tougher than it sounds, especially when your job is at stake, but companies do not blatantly violate laws regarding overtime pay without some sort of legally-defensible excuse (e.g. "it's part of their job description"). You sure about that? Who, exactly, is going to stop them? >You still haven't addressed the fact that you told the same story several years ago. Surely something must have changed since then. I'm not sure what's off about the story -- pay was cut three years ago, has only gone up a few cents an hour since, and now unpaid overtime. Why is that timeline confusing? >In any case, there are plenty of details you are leaving out. It's your choice, but as of now, I'll just assume that 75% of your dad's circumstances is his doing, and 25% is the fault of those "evil corporations." It's not about the "evil corporations." It's about how things work in the real world between those who have a shitload of power and those who have none, particularly when those who have it are accumulating more and exercising it over the rest. That's life in America, post-1970. -Z