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yallerdawg

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2. If we didn't have the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act protections...

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Thu Apr 9, 2015, 10:25 PM

Apr 2015

the bosses wouldn't lose one second of sleep killing us. That's what they did. That's what they do where there are no protections. That's what they fight to get rid of!

All these laws, rules, regulations and red tape people complain about are the protections that keep us alive.

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This picture is hanging in my dentists office. Every time I go there I wonder about the men in it. jwirr Apr 2015 #1

If we didn't have the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act protections... yallerdawg Apr 2015 #2