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Thompson doesn’t care about workers

Julie Gittings

State College

In his latest email to constituents, Representative Glenn (GT) Thompson once again shows that he sides with business over workers.

He criticized the Biden administration’s actions in getting the Department of Labor to finalize a rule that increased the threshold for overtime pay to salaried employees, claiming it will burden businesses and employers throughout Pennsylvania. He then applauded a U.S. District Court decision against the rule, arguing that current law offers “benefits to lower-level employees and that any significant changes to these standards should be reviewed and approved by Congress.”

So, why isn’t he doing anything in his capacity as a member of Congress to improve benefits for those “lower-level employees?” Thompson continually laments the high cost of living and regularly–and inappropriately–blames the Biden administration for pandemic-related price increases. But, when he has the opportunity to help his working-class constituents, he does nothing.

Since he’s been head of the House Agriculture Committee, big agribusiness has grown fatter while family farmers and people of his district suffer. It’s no surprise that Thompson’s largest donors are corporate agriculture firms–or that Thompson’s controversial Farm Bill provides generous farm subsidies (corporate welfare) to America’s wealthiest farmers.

Commodity crops such as peanuts, rice, wheat and cotton, are poised to receive the highest subsidy increases of all while small farmers, consumers and those in the SNAP program who need food assistance are short-changed.

Why are we paying him $174,000 plus benefits and expenses?

Starting at $3.69/week.

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