"I can't think of anything more in keeping with American ideals of fairness than equal pay for equal work," said Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts and a lead sponsor of the bill.
The next stop for the fair pay fight: the Paycheck Fairness Act.
Here too, the GOP exhibits its slaveholder mentality, rejecting corporate reform that would help reduce the income gap, attacking the union system that protects workers' rights, advocating the reduction of the minimum wage, ignoring calls for fairness in pay, and pushing for Wild West capitalism - even though that has already destroyed the lives of millions of Americans.
In my opinion, after nearly 30 years in the tax business, complexity is the price we pay for fairness today.
Their criteria for fairness are generally very conservative; the fair pay differential is the one to which they have become accustomed.
Given that financial rewards may not reflect the amount of work undertaken by practices serving more deprived patients, future pay-for-performance schemes also need to address fairness of rewards in relation to workload.
Labour needs a fair pay commission in its manifesto if fairness means anything to set guidelines for excessive salaries as well as for low pay.
But Judge Hellerstein said that while he did not question the appropriateness or ethics of borrowing the money, he was concerned about the fairness of making the clients pay for it.
At the time, Asda's chief executive Andy Clarke said: "At Asda, we believe in fairness so the price customers pay for a pint of milk or loaf of bread is the same regardless of where they live in the UK".
The Protect ALL NC Families Coalition will continue to work for LGBT equality, but the true wealth of the coalition all along was that it was a coalition of groups who also seek equal pay for women, fairness in the tax code, and who generally stand up for the least, the last, and the lost that Reverend Woods spoke of.
