8/24/19: President Trump is attending the G-7 summit in France. Experts in
international affairs figure it will be a successful meeting, so long as he
doesn’t grab Angela Merkel you know where. We know the president is lonely now
that Vladimir is no longer invited to these affairs. Trump has been lobbying
hard for the other six members to let Russia back in and restore the G-8. That
way, he’d have at least one leader at future meetings with whom he could
relate.
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BACK HOME, there’s fresh evidence that the government should never regulate big business, because – well – don’t all corporations love their workers all the time and treat them fairly?
Kentucky coal miners – “former Kentucky coal miners” to be more precise – are blockading a train full of coal.
Why are these former miners upset? Their company, Blackjewel, Inc., declared bankruptcy without notice on July 1. Also, Blackjewel decided it would be fun if workers kept showing up to dig coal till the moment the company closed – and Blackjewel could bounce their last paychecks.
Now the miners aren’t letting the train go, since the cargo,
which they mined, may be worth $10 million.
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SPEAKING OF STIFFING WORKERS, DoorDash, the nation’s largest restaurant food delivery service, has decided to change pay policies because corporations are always looking out for employees first!
That is why, starting in 2017, DoorDash applied any tips customers put on charge cards toward the delivery person’s hourly pay. Instead of the tip going to the person who brought the food, it offset company expenses.
The scam was revealed recently, thanks to the free press.
Customers expressed outrage and the CEO said he felt bad and would start
paying workers fairly this month. Not so bad that workers would get back
pay they had lost previously, though. DoorDash is worth an estimated $12.6 billion, which means capitalism is working just the way God and
the GOP intended.
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The company kept the tips. |
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