This page will show you how to get involved in Union/Labor Issues through E-Activism--links to sites (i.e.- AFL-CIO, NYS AFL-CIO, CDALF, Other Unions/Internationals, Other progressive Sites, etc.) to sign petitions, to email politicians, to make phone calls... on issues important to Labor/Unions.
Great E-Activist Videos---Please Go Here and Watch Some Great Demonstrations of Activism--
The Other 98% Videos
Great E-Activist Sites to Join/Subscribe--to Get Involved--Sign Petitions, etc. ---
E-Activist Sites—Sign Up, Take Action—
Working America— http://www.workingamerica.org/ ;
Action Page-- http://www.workingamerica.org/actions
Daily Kos-- http://www.dailykos.com/blog/labor ;
Action Page Sign-up-- http://campaigns.dailykos.com/signup_page/genericsignup
Other 98%-- Campaigns/Action – http://other98.com/;
AFL-CIO – Campaigns/Action-- http://www.aflcio.org/Get-Involved/Action-Center
NYS AFL-CIO -- http://nysaflcio.org/
Take Action/Campaigns -- http://nysaflcio.org/category/take-action/
CREDO Action – Campaigns/Action -- http://credoaction.com/
Capital District Area Labor Federation (CDALF) – http://www.cdalf.org/
Take Action/Sign Up -- http://www.cdalf.org/content/take-action
American Rights at Work -- http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/
Take Action/Campaigns -- http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/take-action/campaigns/
Tell Staples: The U.S. Mail is Not for Sale! |
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Staples attacks good jobs and public post offices.
Staples and the U.S. Postal Service have cut a deal that jeopardizes your mail service and your local post office. In fact, post offices across the country are at risk – along with thousands of good jobs.
The Staples deal will replace full-service U.S. Post Offices with knock-off post offices in Staples stores that are not staffed with U.S. Postal Service employees.
A bad deal for workers and consumers.
You have a right to post offices staffed by workers who are accountable to you and the American people. You have a right to postal services provided by highly trained, uniformed Postal Service employees, who are sworn to safeguard your mail – whether it’s at the Post Office or Staples.
The Staples deal is bad for consumers like you who will pay the same for less service. And if Staples and the USPS move forward with this deal, it could lead to the end of the Postal Service as we know it.
Undermining good jobs.
In the meantime, the Staples deal is replacing good-paying jobs that our community depends on with low-wage jobs that hurt our economy.
Click the Picture below to Sign the Petition--
http://stopstaples.com/
Find a rally near you!
Long Island- April 24, 2014
Staples Store
Time: 2:00 PM- 6:00 PM
204 Airport Plaza
Conklin St and Route 110
Farmingdale, NY 11735
Contact: Joe Flavin, APWU unicorn521_2000@yahoo.com
NYC- April 24, 2014
Meet 11 AM at JAF Post Office
on 8th Ave. btwn 31st & 33rd
March to Staples for a rally
16 East 34th Street 10016
Contact: Kevin Walsh, APWU kevin.walsh@nymetro.org
Rochester- April 24, 2014
Staples Store
5:30 PM- 6:30 PM
1115 E. Ridge Rd.
Rochester, NY 14621
Contact: Erin Young, RGVALF emaflcio@aol.com
Previously Held
Albany- April 11, 2014
4:30 PM
Staples Store
1440 Central Ave/Northway Mall
Albany, NY 12205
Contact: Frank Resetarits, APWU 716-949-2128
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Palermo's Admits to Violating Labor Law |
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Palermo Union Workers--No Justice, NO Peace
I’ve got some big news for you. Last week, Palermo’s Pizza was forced to rehire eight workers—who were fired last year for organizing for a voice on the job—and give them tens of thousands of dollars in back pay.
Palermo’s owners Giacomo and Angelo Fallucca didn’t come to this decision out of the goodness of their hearts. It is because you, John, and tens of thousands of others stood up to Palermo’s anti-worker actions over the past year that they reluctantly agreed to hire back these workers.
This is a big win, but it doesn’t end here. Palermo’s still needs to answer for a lot of things, including dealing with health and safety violations, taking responsibility for claims that another worker was fired for union activity and ending its continued refusal to discuss these issues with workers.
Let’s keep the pressure on. Email the Fallucca brothers now and tell them to meet with workers to resolve these issues.
This settlement confirms what we’ve been saying all along—Palermo’s broke the law and used threats, intimidation and other dirty tactics to stop us from organizing.
Palermo’s and the Fallucca brothers no longer can hide behind the same tired talking points they’ve concocted to hide the truth. The bottom line is they violated workers’ right to organize and they’ll do it again if we don’t keep their feet to the fire.
It’s been more than a year since we went on strike. It’s far past time for Palermo’s to fix the problems it created.
Send a message to Palermo’s management to stop ignoring workers and meet with us, so we can work together to find a resolution.
In Solidarity,
Raul de la Torre
Palermo Workers Union
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Postal demise WILL Affect You as a Union Member & A Postal Customer |
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Tell Congress: Oppose the Republican Plan to Cripple the USPS
81%
We've reached 81,793 of our goal of 100,000.
No more Saturday mail delivery. No more door-to-door mail service for millions of Americans.
The Postal Reform Act of 2013, introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa and passed out of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee recently1, would implement these drastic changes to the postal service, while slashing over 100,000 mail carrier jobs, directly attacking postal employees’ collective-bargaining rights, and creating a new and entirely unnecessary oversight committee.2
The postal service doesn’t need new bureaucracy, or even to cut jobs and services. What it needs is an end to the disastrous pre-funding mandate, which requires the postal service to guarantee retiree healthcare and pension benefits for 75 years — something that no other government agency or private company is forced to do.
Tell Congress: Oppose the Postal Reform Act of 2013.
Over two-thirds of the postal service’s budget red ink comes from the onerous and ill-considered 2006 law called the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA), which created the pre-funding mandate.3
The PAEA was created by Republicans intent on killing a vital government service for the sake of proving that government can't work. By making the public believe that government services are underfunded and poorly managed, Republicans can force more cuts and eventually privatize services altogether, handing over public goods to private corporations that enrich a select few at the expense of many.
Rep. Issa is now using the USPS budget shortfall that the Republican-sourced PAEA created as a reason to implement changes to the postal service that will make it totally uncompetitive with services like FedEx and UPS.
We can’t let them pass this bill and doom the USPS to a death-spiral that would cut services and create a needless bureaucratic oversight committee at the expense of middle-class jobs.
Both the American Postal Workers Union4 and the National Association of Letter Carriers5 have come out against Rep. Issa’s bill. Now we need to back them up with a resounding call from the grassroots to oppose this bill and end the long-term Republican plan to kill the post office.
Cutting services and jobs can be avoided by making simple and popular reforms to the postal service like those proposed in bills by Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Senate, and Rep. Peter DeFazio in the House.6 Their legislation would end the mandate that requires the USPS to pre-fund healthcare benefits for future retirees, while recouping $11 billion the government has overcharged the postal service.7
If Congress can't get its act together and implement necessary and simple reforms to end the pre-funding mandate and allow the USPS to operate without onerous and unnecessary restrictions, the postal service will be forced to continue cutting staff and services. We can’t let that happen.
SIGN THE PETITION <-- Click Here
Thank you for standing up for the U.S. Postal Service.
1. Gary Strauss, "Door-to-door postal service, Sat. delivery a step closer to getting axe," USA Today, July 24, 2013.
2. Nick Wing, "Postal Service, Darrell Issa Eye End To Door-To-Door Mail Delivery Service," Huffington Post, July 24, 2013.
3. Zaid Jilani, "A Manufactured ‘Crisis’: Congress Can Let The Post Office Save Itself Without Mass Layoffs Or Service Reductions," ThinkProgress, September 28, 2011.
4. "Rep. Issa Introduces Postal Legislation; APWU Urges ‘No’ Vote on ‘Deeply Disturbing’ Bill," American Postal Workers Union, July 22, 2013.
5. "NALC statement on postal bill mark-up session," National Association of Letter Carriers, July 25, 2013.
6. Annie-Rose Strasser, "Congressman Finally Takes Action To Remove Needless Requirement Bankrupting The Postal Service," ThinkProgress, April 25, 2013.
7. "Postal Service Protection Act of 2013," Library of Congress, February 13, 2013.
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Remember--Big Banks too BIG to Fail--That Did in 2008 |
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It's Time to Reign BIG Banks Back in....
Don't forget 2008 when it all crashed and we were, and still are, being hurt by these banks and their risky investments....
When people like you and me work together, we can stand up to even the most powerful interests. That's how we'll level the playing field for working families and lower the risk of future crises.
Sign On & Help Spread the Word.....Thanks!
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For me, the basic idea is pretty simple: banking should be boring.
If Wall Street wants to make high-risk bets, that's fine -- but they shouldn't be doing it with money from your savings account.
For decades, the Glass-Steagall Act acted as a wall to separate risky investment banking from checking and savings accounts. But in 1999, after the big banks and their army of lobbyists spent decades (and millions of dollars) chipping at the rules, Congress repealed Glass-Steagall.
Senator Russ Feingold was on the frontlines for us during that fight back in 1999. Now I'm happy to have the support of the Progressives United community as we fight for a new 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act.
Thank you for signing on as a citizen co-sponsor of the 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act. Will you get your friends involved by sharing this important bill on Facebook and Twitter today?
As you may know, Senators Maria Cantwell, John McCain, Angus King and I have introduced a new 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act to once again separate ordinary banking from the high-risk activities that broke our economy.
The bill gives the financial institutions five years to split their commercial and investment businesses into distinct entities -- shrinking the size of our big banks and taking an important step toward ending "Too Big to Fail."
And because Wall Street won't be gambling with the FDIC-insured money in savings accounts, we'll help reduce the risk of future bailouts.
Nearly 50,000 members of the Progressives United community, like you, have already signed up as citizen co-sponsors of the 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act, but it’s going to take tens of thousands of people more to stand up to the big banks.
Help recruit more citizen co-sponsors. Share a post about the 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act on Facebook or Twitter now.
When people like you and me work together, we can stand up to even the most powerful interests. That's how we'll level the playing field for working families and lower the risk of future crises.
Thank you,
Elizabeth Warren
U.S. Senator, Massachusetts
P.S. I'm so proud of Russ for taking his new position with the State Department, and I'm thrilled to support Progressives United as you continue your work fighting corporate influence while Russ serves.
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