U.S. Senate Republicans again
block pay equity for women
Iron Workers compete
Russell Tennis (above, left), a fourth-year
apprentice at Portland-based Iron
Workers Local 29, competes in rod tying
competition June 2 at the Pacific North-
west Iron Workers Apprenticeship Con-
test hosted by Local 29. Judging is Ethan
Legrand, apprenticeship coordinator of
Spokane, Wash., Local 14. Locals from
Portland, Seattle, Spokane, and Anch-
orage, Alaska, sent their top two ap-
prentices to compete in a multitude of
written and timed skillsets that included
welding, rigging, ornamental, and
climbing a steel column. Apprenticeship
coordinators and instructors from the
four locals time and judge the quality of work. After scores from all the
disciplines are tallied, the top three finishers advance to the national finals
Sept. 20-23 in Indianapolis, Indiana, said Local 29 Apprenticeship
Coordinator Keith Kordenat. Tennis will move on to the finals after finishing
third. The winner was Ron Ohlenkamp of Local 14. Second place went to
Daniel Biggers of Anchorage Local 751. Also representing Local 29 at the
contest was Fenton Mayes (below right). He finished fourth.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (PAI) —
For the second time in three years a
Republican Senate filibuster threat
killed the Paycheck Fairness Act, leg-
islation designed to bring the United
States towards the goal of equal pay for
equal work.
The June 5 party-line vote was 52-
47 on a motion to start regular debate
on the bill, but supporters needed 60
votes to end the filibuster. Had it been
allowed to move forward, the bill
would have passed with a majority of
senators supporting it.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,
D-Nev., voted “yes” at first, then
switched to “no” at the last minute to
preserve his right to bring the bill up
again in the future.
“This was very disappointing,” said
Carol Rosenblatt, executive director of
the Coalition of Labor Union Women
(CLUW). The group was one of a
coalition whose members mounted a
three-week phone and e-mail blitz of
senators urging them to debate and
pass the legislation and not bury it un-
der a filibuster.
But no Republican, male or female,
voted to start debate. All the Democ-
rats — before Reid’s tactical switch —
and two independent senators, voted
for it.
“The fight continues. Equal pay is
not something we’re going to let die,”
said Rosenblatt. “Discrimination and
economic inequities are not something
we’re going to live with. This is an im-
portant issue on which to evaluate can-
didates.”
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), a
former social worker who is the
longest-serving woman ever in Con-
gress, was a top proponent of the Pay-
check Fairness Act. The legislation
would ban employers from disciplining
or firing workers who ask questions
about wages, allow triple damages for
pay discrimination violations, and nar-
row the scope of excuses that employ-
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ers use to justify pay discrimination.
More than 12 million families with
children rely primarily on women’s
earnings, and over a third of mothers
in working families in all but two states
are the families’ primary breadwinners.
Yet women still earn on average 77
cents to each dollar earned by a man. It
is estimated in real terms that over a
lifetime of work this adds up to a loss
of anywhere from $700,000 to $2 mil-
lion in lost wages. This hurts women,
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