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Report as: spam offensive Marvin L Foushee on 2/14/08 at 7am

The teamsters are representing the workers at this New Era Cap distribution center in Mobile, Alabama. This is hardly a sweatshop issue, as the complaints are not with the company at large and all of their manufacting plants, distribution centers, ect., but just at a company location in Alabama that has just been unionized.

Minimum wage is pretty much poverty level wages. Write you congressional representative if you think that minimum wage needs to be increased to $8.50 an hour. [It does need to be.] Also, write your congressional representative and request that the CPI [consumer price index] should be computed for four different income level quadrants, not just the average income level in the United States. The goverment is using statistics to bury the effect that our foreign policy has on gasoline prices and inflation. AND HOW ABOUT AN 18% CAP ON THE AMOUNT THAT CREDIT CARD COMPANIES CAN CHARGE FOR INTEREST!



Report as: spam offensive cdizzle on 2/14/08 at 4pm

It's funny because this article is very related to yesterdays "Your not special" column by Kanakia....the writer of both should get together and do a combo column. 4Sure@!




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