Slave wages
Hawaii Reporter
by Malia Zimmerman
01/26/07
Nancy Pelosi led the effort in the U.S. House during her first week as speaker to increase the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour from $5.15. In the process she ensured that American Samoa, a U.S. territory, is exempt from the wage hike, but did not exempt the Marianas Islands. The distinction is not unimportant. StarKist and Del Monte, two big fish- and tuna-canning companies with packing plants in American Samoa, are headquartered in California, the former in Ms. Pelosi’s San Francisco district...
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by Malia Zimmerman
01/26/07
Nancy Pelosi led the effort in the U.S. House during her first week as speaker to increase the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour from $5.15. In the process she ensured that American Samoa, a U.S. territory, is exempt from the wage hike, but did not exempt the Marianas Islands. The distinction is not unimportant. StarKist and Del Monte, two big fish- and tuna-canning companies with packing plants in American Samoa, are headquartered in California, the former in Ms. Pelosi’s San Francisco district...
http://tinyurl.com/2y7bj8
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=minimum+wage
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pelosi
rudkla - 29. Jan, 15:33
