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Chamber of Commerce: No Equal Pay for Women

by Tula Connell, Aug 18, 2010

On the anniversary of the 19th Amendment which 90 years ago finally enabled U.S. women to cast a vote–the Chamber of Commerce took the opportunity to trash the movement for women to get equal pay at work.  In 2009, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median weekly earnings of $657, or about 80 percent of the $819 median for their male counterparts.
The Chamber today approvingly quoted from a letter at the Cafe Hayek blog which asserted:
Not only does achievement of such ‘equality’ require the state to treat people unequally, obsession with income equality also reflects a Scrooge-like fetish for money. 
Let’s see. Frederick Hayek, the mid-20th century Austrian economist after whom the blog is named, championed captalism against the “evils” of social democracy. Capitalism means the freedom to–don’t tell, me let me guess: The freedom to MAKE MONEY.
Sounds like capitalism is a good argument for equal pay.

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The Chamber of Commerce’s Jobs Deception Campaign

by Richard L. Trumka, Oct 15, 2009

Unions are popularly known as “the folks who brought you the weekend.” In contrast, the Chamber of Commerce schemes to take away employees’ weekend—along with overtime pay, the minimum wage, Buy America rules, employee’ freedom to form unions, child labor standard protections….The list is long and ugly.

So it’s farcical that today the Chamber launched a campaign estimated to run in the tens of millions of dollars to promote job creation.

The Chamber’s campaign originally started out as an attack against financial regulation—until the Chamber found out how strongly U.S. taxpayers support reining in Big Banks and the financial industry’s widespread shady practices. So the Chamber changed the packaging to purportedly focus on jobs, which in fact the American people desperately need.

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