Fair wage bill nears passage!

Instead of dwelling on issues like "dirty" and "druggie" video games, we should be worried about economic woes that hit American families harum-scarum in the wallet.

Now Congress finally is.

In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that you couldn't sue for pay discrimination if you waited more than 6 months after the discrimination occurred - even if you didn't discover the discrimination within 6 months. In doing so, the court tossed out a $360,000 award to a female Goodyear worker who was paid less than male colleagues.

The Supremes' ruling that denied workers their right to equal pay was an activist one - and it gutted years of established law. Years and years and years of it.

A bill in Congress last year would have remedied this outrage for future victims of pay bias. Unbelievably, however, Congress didn't pass this bill. (And this was a Democratic Congress?)

But now things may be changing. A new fair wage bill to clean up the Supreme Court's rancid mess has now cleared the Senate and is likely to become law.

Finally! Of course, this only restores the law that existed before the right-wing Federalist Society cultists on the Supreme Court got a hold of it. Still, you have to start somewhere.

(Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/22/AR2009012201787.html)