Pay Day Fairness is not a Partisan Fight - It's a Women's Fight!

By Faith Chatham - April 12, 2014
There is nothing PARTISAN about getting paid or not getting paid! It's is being cheated or not being cheated. Being silent and continuing to take it while you continue getting taken is being STUPID! I'm referring to my years before I retired! Honey, I've been down that road and back up it. They can "Sweet talk you" and call you nick names and what really matters at the end of the week is HOW MUCH HARDER is it for you to make your pay check stretch than it is for the guy sitting in the next cubbie hole who isn't producing what YOU are but is getting paid more?

Pay Check or Pay Day Fairness or Equal Pay for Equal Work or whatever it is called comes down to whether the WOMEN of this Nation are content to continue being shortchanged on payday while the guys have change in their pocket to go blow it after we're still stuck in the office finishing up!

Young women beware. Laws which forbid you to discuss your pay are abusive and need to be outlawed. The Pay Day Fairness Act which was voted down by six votes in the Senate and which had NO REPUBLICAN co-sponsors in the House is something that impacts your pocket book and impacts your rights in the workplace and should not be partisan. EVERY WOMAN in this nation should support it.

I don't care whether you wear elephant pins of donkey pins, it is time to unite and CHANGE IT. I went to work for 40% less 50 years ago at Harte Hanks Newspapers Inc. I found out by accident when the guy who had the same education and less experience than I did who was hired the same day accidentally dropped his pay stub. If we'd discussed it, we'd have both been fired for violating company policy. Some "Policies" are abusive. Sex offenders always tell the victims they can't tell what happened. When someone is taking unfair advantage of you they try to keep you in the dark about what is right and fair for you and they don't want others to know how abusive they are. For decades labor laws have been unfair and it is past time for that to change.