I am always doing that which I can not do,
in order that I may learn how to do it.
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(National Review). A victory for people of all faiths!
I have mixed feelings on this. I don't think the government should be telling businesses who they should hire for any or no good reason, and I'm not sure if I were this Muslim I would want to work for an employer who clearly doesn't want me working for him. For me, it's more of an issue if government is the party discriminating. In the private economy, there's more competition for workers; stupid employers create opportunities for good employers.
However, I am appalled at anyone who would discriminate against devout Muslim women just as I would be for those discriminating against nuns or religious sisters based on their head coverings or wearing a cross. I have worked, for example, on a project with a turban-wearing Sikh, and his appearance was never an issue on the project.
(IPI). Illinois’ Prevailing Wage Act mandates high wages for construction workers on projects that receive public funding.
All Illinoisans have to pay for these wages with property-tax dollars, including the state's beleaguered manufacturing companies and nearly 600,000 manufacturing workers.
The sad irony of this subsidy is that the prevailing-wage law makes Illinois’ construction workers the best paid in the entire nation, while Illinois’ manufacturing workers are the worst paid in the entire region.
There's only one reason union whores push for corrupt prevailing wage laws--they need anti-competitive laws to push up their rates at the expense of the taxpayer. It's corrupt in nature, an unconscionable special-interest law and must be repealed. If unions want to compete, let them do so against real competition. The union label has come to stand for greed and self-interest, not quality.
So when this passes watch the quality of work and quality of worker go down the toilet. Hence the saying "you get what you pay for."
The OP is a pathetic economically illiterate union whore. He's afraid of the truth--that unions through their corrupt bought-and-sold political whores get artificially high wages at the expense of the taxpayer. He's afraid of open, competitive market bidding; if he wasn't, he wouldn't need to corrupt anti-competitive law. So-called "union quality" would speak for itself in an open bid format.
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Cat Stevens, "Oh Very Young". Cat's last top 10 A/C single. (He would go on to hit one more Top 10 on rhe Hot 100, a remake.)
