exactly what many, many other large profitable corporations are doing, and that is as the corporations make huge profits, as their ceos get huge compensation packages they are either not negotiating with a union in one case, workers can t get a first contract, or else they are bringing forth a contract for other workers which is a bad contract. and they fired another worker whose crime in life was that she was busy organizing, trying to organize the union. so to my mind what verizon is doing is what we re seeing all over this country, is corporations going to war against their own workers. they are making huge profits. they are demanding in many cases cuts in wages, in health care, and in pensions. this is what the race to the bottom is about. this is why we have more and
millions of people in this country are in desperate need of work you re not going to pay your ceos of large corporations huge compensation packages and then cut the wages and health care and retirement programs of the people who work for you. that is not going to happen anymore. when we talk about what s going on in our economy, it is important to understand that, yes, thank god, the economy today is a lot better than it was when george w. bush left office. when bush left office we were losing 800,000 jobs a month. today we re growing 150,000, 250,000 jobs a month, and that s
a lot of families haven t taken. they are afraid if they have to accept that and sign that form they are signing away their right to pursue more recourse down the road if it turns out the airline was negligent in some way as a result of all of this. the families that did sign the compensation packages are the ones where they lost their sole bread winner. i want you to hear from one who lost her only daughter and her son-in-law who were canadian citizens on holiday in malaysia. it was really remarkable. we sat down with this woman and what has kept her going until now is if she had her daughter. we do not have that. i ll tell you what she said miguel. what kept her going and kept her strong through the last more than 500 days is the thought she
into hospitals for treatment are being people who have either suffered from a sun stroke or dehydrated. the government, local gulf there is providing water and buttermilk. they re also making sure the hospitals remain staffed. asked doctors, nurses to cancel their leave to remany on duty. as we have been reporting all morning. the number of people dying as a result of this heat wave is increasing. the local governments have announced compensation packages of up to $1,500 for the families of victims. it is just horrifying situation for people there of course. and you know, we are looking at this. we want to look at some sort of relief. there is the heat. there is the humidity. for a lot of people lack of waltewalt water. meteorologist pedram javahari, keeping your eyes on
decision. effective immediately. those stories were not heard in the courtroom. it was all about the ceo of hobby lobby. and his moral conviction. and then from the moral perspective, we re talking about basic fundamental equality. equality to make our own decisions about what we purchase with our own compensation packages. i think that goes to fundamental freedom and i think that the court s decision to should send a chill up all americans spines. justice alito writing, holding it to closely held corporations which sounds like a smaulg group. it s basically i think 50% of shares owned by less than five people. that covers as much as 90% of american businesses and interestingly enough about 52% of the american workforce. the court did leave open the possibility of the federal government directly paying for the women who would not have coverage via this decision. is that something that naral and