Job Killer

Job Killer

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Living Wage has brought good competition to Los Angeles International Airport

L.A.'s Living Wage Ordinance Isn't a Job Killer

September 21, 2011

Despite the dire warnings of former Mayor Richard Riordan, the L.A. Chamber of Commerce and many other business organizations, which opposed requiring airport contractors to pay a living wage, competition for LAX food concessions is more vigorous than ever. More proof that businesses and good wages and benefits for workers can coexist.

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Hotel housekeepers are repeatedly injured on the job.

Cutting Back on Housekeepers' Heavy Lifting

August 02, 2011

Some hotel guests may be getting a better night sleep these days, but at the expense of the housekeepers who clean their rooms.  In what has been called an “amenities arms race,” many hotels now use luxury mattresses that weigh more than 100 pounds.

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Republicans Can't Name A Single "Job Killer" Regulation

January 25, 2011

By James Lardner. ReMapping Debate. January 25, 2011.

"Job-killing regulations? Opponents fail to support claims with evidence" investigates the right-wing’s persistent use of “job killer” rhetoric to describe anything they don’t like. Environmental legislation is often the target, and the examples used here are entirely from that subject area.  Lardner has done a lot of original reporting, including an interview with Eban Goodstein, an economist well-versed in these subjects. Goodstein says “The dollar costs of environmental regulation…have typically been too small — no more than about 2 percent of overall production costs — to cause a company to consider relocating to a foreign country.” These anti-regulatory attacks never consider the job-producing effects of regulation either. Although the author interviews many anti-regulation Republicans, not a single one can name an instance of a previous environmental regulation or law that killed jobs.

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Cry Wolf Quotes

We also have concerns over the potential impact on Sallie Mae's operations in Delaware, which employs nearly 700 workers. We ask that as you draft the committee's mark ... you maintain a role for Sallie Mae in the student lending process that recognizes the important services Sallie Mae has provided millions of students and mitigates any potential job loss in Delaware.

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A letter from Delaware Senators Tom Carper (D) and Ted Kaufman (D) to Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Labor, Education and Pensions. Hill’s Briefing Room blog.
02/22/2010 | Full Details | Law(s): Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act

Listen, these are the same people who will be standing in unemployment lines if the Clinton-Gore proposals are put into effect.

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John T. Truscott, Press Secretary to Republican Governor John Engler, The New York Times.
10/22/1992 | Full Details | Law(s): Energy Policy Conservation Act (CAFE standards)

[The bill would be] detrimental to business and the citizens of the state in that it will curtail expansion of existing industry and jobs and it will discourage the attraction of new industry.

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William A. Lynch, Chairman of the South Jersey Chamber of Commerce.
10/07/1982 | Full Details | Law(s): New Jersey Worker and Community Right-To-Know law

One of the principal impediments to job creation is uncertainty on the part of American companies, large and small. We've all watched as companies have sat on a lot of capital. They're uncertain about what tax policy is going to be. They're clearly uncertain about how health care costs. They're uncertain about all the regulations on capital markets.

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Thomas Donohue, President of the Chamber of Commerce
03/14/2011 | Full Details | Law(s): Affordable Care Act, Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
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