GOP backs corporate ****
by kos
GOP backs corporate ****
Wed Oct 07, 2009 at 11:30:26 AM PDT
How was this controversial?
In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-***** by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. She was detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or a bed, and “warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she’d be out of a job.” (Jones was not an isolated case.) Jones was prevented from bringing charges in court against KBR because her employment contract stipulated that sexual assault allegations would only be heard in private arbitration.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) proposed an amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill that would withhold defense contracts from companies like KBR “if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.” Speaking on the Senate floor yesterday, Franken said:
The constitution gives everybody the right to due process of law ... And today, defense contractors are using fine print in their contracts do deny women like Jamie Leigh Jones their day in court. ... The victims of **** and discrimination deserve their day in court [and] Congress plainly has the constitutional power to make that happen.
Easy call, right? Well, not if you're a Republican, eager to protect a right of corporations to **** its employees.
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If this is Compassinate Conservatism, holy ****.:wtf::shocked:
by kos
GOP backs corporate ****
Wed Oct 07, 2009 at 11:30:26 AM PDT
How was this controversial?
In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-***** by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. She was detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or a bed, and “warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she’d be out of a job.” (Jones was not an isolated case.) Jones was prevented from bringing charges in court against KBR because her employment contract stipulated that sexual assault allegations would only be heard in private arbitration.
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) proposed an amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill that would withhold defense contracts from companies like KBR “if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.” Speaking on the Senate floor yesterday, Franken said:
The constitution gives everybody the right to due process of law ... And today, defense contractors are using fine print in their contracts do deny women like Jamie Leigh Jones their day in court. ... The victims of **** and discrimination deserve their day in court [and] Congress plainly has the constitutional power to make that happen.
Easy call, right? Well, not if you're a Republican, eager to protect a right of corporations to **** its employees.
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If this is Compassinate Conservatism, holy ****.:wtf::shocked:
