bottom line

Jobless inertia and financial strife breed a cruelty that isn’t dissimilar from the cold strike of an employer maintaining their bottom line, cutting 100 workers with the same callousness that they’d cut 1,000.

That sounds like an admission that Pfizer’s deal had more to do with protecting its bottom line by staving off tariffs than with giving American consumers a break.

“These are the crux of what makes a union strong and the very, very bottom line of what members need and want,” Dubal said.

But the bottom line, lawyers said, is they simply don’t have much evidence, if any, for most of the decades-old claims.

The bottom line, analysts said, is the administration is citing a problem with the law that doesn’t seem to exist, at least not in California.