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

...this is a very dangerous measure that will seriously affect virtually every employer in the state. The only outcome form this measure’s approval would be the closing of many businesses which, in-turn, would throw thousands of employees out of their jobs.

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Philip M. Vermeulen on behalf of the Engineering Contractors’ Association, the California Fence Contractors Association, the Sacramento Builders’ Exchange, the Marin Builders’ Exchange and the California Chapter of the American Fence Contractors’ Association.
05/03/1999 | Full Details | Law(s): AB 1127 or the “Tosco Bill”

We have a stagnant economy and there is nothing down the road that makes it look like we're going to have the kind of economic growth that puts people to work.

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Rep. John Kasich (R-OH), CNN.
07/28/1993 | Full Details | Law(s): Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993

Never in the history of the world has any measure been brought in here so insidiously designed so as to prevent business recovery, to enslave workers, and to prevent any possibility of the employers providing work for the people.

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Representative John Taber (R-NY)
04/19/1935 | Full Details | Law(s): Social Security Act of 1935

One must keep in mind that certain of the above products are consumer oriented....A Warning label would be a substantial and unnecessary deterrent to the sale of these products. Since these products are not hazardous under any conditions, they should not be labeled as such. Their demise would mean the abolition of thousands of jobs at the manufacturing, distribution, contractor, and retailer levels.

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GAF Corporation comment, no specific author.
03/14/1972 | Full Details | Law(s): OSHA's Asbestos Standard
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