Sanitation Workers Should be Paid More than Trump’s Cabinet

Photo by Jay Clark

Surprisingly, top Republicans in Congress and the White House have recently been praising labor! Well, not laborers — but “laboring.” “Work,” exclaim these politicos, provides “dignity” to all who labor.

Dignity? Obviously, they’ve never been inside a meatpacking plant, done roofing jobs for a wage-thieving developer, been paid a pittance to clean office buildings at midnight, or otherwise fully experienced the “dignity of labor.”

Years ago, Senator Fred...