Donald Trump on Sunday admitted that he refused to pay his workers overtime, leading to a massive pushback. Trump, who made a similar comment recently about how he "hated" paying overtime to his employees, went even further over the weekend at a rally in Pennsylvania. At that same rally, the for...
  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    59·
    4 小时前

    Here’s what I don’t get.

    He’s incredibly consistent, not paying contractors, or employees. Or paying fractions of what the contract actually stipulated.

    I don’t get why any contractor would work for him. any contractor that works with trump is going to get fucked over. its how he operates.

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml
      31·
      5 小时前

      Plus more scattered throughout. Here’s just some of the obvious quotes about it

      DOL should clarify that a home office is not subject to OSHA regulations and that time to set up a home office is not compensable time or eligible for overtime calculations

      They want to remove overtime pay for work from home

      Congress should amend the NLRA to authorize collective bargaining to treat national employment laws and regulations as negotiable defaults. For example, this reform would allow a union to bless a relaxed overtime trigger (e.g., 45 hours a week, or 80 hours over two weeks)

      Allowing labor laws to be negotiable is going to be used by companies to given worse labor contracts to unions and is a blatant attempt to weaken their power

      Here’s a decent article that includes some of the more conniving ways Project 2025 wants to gut overtime

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        4 小时前

        You’d think Unions would just reject that bullshit, but then Teamsters is … probably fully on board.

        • chillinit@lemmynsfw.com
          1·
          1 小时前

          The Teamsters, who’re unabashably using bureaucratic obstruction and strict compliance to refuse to cross picket lines.

  • anticolonialist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    6 小时前

    He didn’t have to admit it. Anyone that’s been paying attention to him for the last 30 some years knows that he’s a con man that doesn’t pay his bills.

    • irish_link@lemmy.world
      22·
      5 小时前

      Unfortunately it seems that the people who rally for him didn’t research him and alway think anything bad said about him is made up. This may actually help show them he really doesn’t like the working class.

      • anticolonialist@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        4 小时前

        I’ve been following this POS since late 80s, Grifters are going to grift and con men are going to con.

        He doesn’t need to show them. He’s already said, “I don’t care about you. I just want your vote.”

      • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
        11·
        5 小时前

        Either they think it’s made up, or they just convince themselves that the face-eating leopard ”surely wouldn’t eat my face.”

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    5 小时前

    Who the fuck didn’t know that already? This dude is notorious for not paying anyone for like the last 40+ years.

    • anticolonialist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      4 小时前

      The Teamsters Guy did not endorse Trump, he used the platform to directly address the working class. If you listen to a speech he called people like Trump and the entire party out for who they are, called the entire duopoly out for who they are,

    • enkers@sh.itjust.works
      181·
      5 小时前

      You mean the guy who didn’t endorse anyone? I think it was clear that the higher ups would’ve liked to endorse Harris, but too many of the rank and file members support trump. I don’t think this’d move the needle much.

  • TwattyMcTwatterson@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 小时前

    I read that as “Unreal: massive push back after Trump admitted he sniffed his workers at latest rally.” The funny thing is I was like yeah sounds about right…stiffed is even better though lol

  • MyOpinion@lemm.ee
    3·
    5 小时前

    The GOP paints a beautiful picture of our future. /s It is just sad that this race is even close. It is sickening that a large amount of our population supports this.

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    75·
    5 小时前

    I fucking hate defending this piece of shit, but what he’s saying isn’t “they worked overtime and I refused to pay them.”

    He said: “I hated to give overtime. I hated it. I shouldn’t say this, but I’d get other people in. I wouldn’t pay.”

    So he’s doing the scumbag, but legal, thing of “you’re about to hit overtime so don’t come in/continue working. Someone else will finish/cover your shift.” Because as we all know he’s a cheap piece of shit.

    “The media” aren’t doing themselves any favors by misleading people with the way the wrote this. It just adds to the Magoos hatred and belief that they’re being lied to by everyone other than Trump and Faux News… Fucking morons everywhere… Magoos and media assholes alike. Gotta get them clicks though, who cares about the impact…

    • davidagain@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 小时前

      I don’t think people are upset because he broke the law, that’s a separate ref flag, they’re upset because he did whatever he could to reduce wages for ordinary Americans and boost profits for himself. It’s shitty and he’s saying it out loud.

    • smokebuddy [he/him]@lemmy.today
      1·
      2 小时前

      Gotta get them clicks though

      I liked how the same author left us hanging and wrote a second seperate article for the quote about The Purge from the same rally, and made us click the link for it rather than just give the information.

    • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
      3·
      4 小时前

      It just makes the media lose credibility, which is why we are here in the first place.