Later this month, the Philadelphia City Council will introduce legislation that would guarantee all workers in the city have paid sick days off from work. It's about public health. It's about family health. It's about employee respect. Four Philadelphia City Council members could stand in the way of this important legislation. Contact them now and make sure they do the right thing.

Please sign this petition to ask the Supreme Court to review Judge Trump Barry’s (Donald Trump's sister) decision in the AT&T pension reduction case, and to review the decisions in all other corporate pension cases. Judge Trump Barry stated “I keep thinking of my father’s words, “Work is its own reward.” You know, just keep working no matter how old you get”. (See link to transcript below to see her statement) WHY THIS PETITION IS IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO SIGN, even if you did not work for AT&T: 1. The loss of the AT&T pensions and layoffs has caused significant damage to the US economy, including: a. increased state and federal expenses for unemployment insurance, b. increased state and federal expenses for older worker retraining, c. increased state and federal expenses for food stamps and welfare, d. decreased state and federal tax revenues, e. increased state and federal budget deficits, and f. decreased consumer spending. This is an issue important to ALL Americans! 2. If you’re younger, you may think that a pension issue isn’t important to you. If that’s what you’re thinking, re-read point #1 above. 3. If you’re a former employee of many other national corporations, your pension lawsuit may have been thrown out of the courts. If we can get the Supreme Court to review the AT&T decision, your corporation’s lawsuit may be reconsidered as well. 4. Re-read point #1 above! In 1997, AT&T changed its pension plan from a traditional, defined-benefit plan, to a cash-balance, defined-contribution plan. In 1998, a lawsuit was filed alleging that the conversion was done in an age-discriminatory manner, causing older employees to lose large portions of the amounts that had previously been accrued in their pensions. At the time, this lawsuit was the largest age discrimination lawsuit in US history; 24,000 class members who opted-in, and $2 Billion in damages. I was identified as the employee who had the worst case of “wearaway”; I had 19 years of service at the time of the conversion, but the new plan took away 13 years, leaving only 6 years of my service in the new plan. (See link below to where this fact is mentioned in court documents). I never even had the chance to recover those lost years, because AT&T offshored my job and laid me off in 1999. This happened to tens of thousands of other employees. After this case was stalled in the courts by AT&T for 13 years, it was thrown out in 2011 in the Federal Appellate Court in Philadelphia by a 3-judge panel, presided over by Judge Trump Barry, who is Donald Trump’s sister. Judge Trump Barry showed her attitude against retirement and pensions by stating, “I keep thinking of my father’s words, “Work is its own reward.” You know, just keep working no matter how old you get”. (See link to transcript below to see her statement) The 24,000 class members, who suffered age discrimination at the hands of AT&T via pension reductions and subsequent mass layoffs, never had their day in court. The Courts have thrown out the pension reduction cases of many other national corporations. Because all these pensions have been greatly decreased by corporations having reneged their fiduciary responsibilities to their former employees, there is a cascading significant loss to Federal and State income tax revenue, as well as a significant loss of money going back into the economy through consumer spending. The lead attorney in this case was Stephen Bruce of Washington DC, a recognized expert in the pension field, who had previously testified in Congressional hearings on pension issues. Mr. Bruce had successfully argued a similar case for Cigna employees in front of the Supreme Court, and he won the case (see link to Supreme Court decision below). However, the Supreme Court denied hearing the AT&T case, even though the Appellate court had ruled differently on the AT&T case to the Supreme Court’s decision in the Cigna case. RELEVANT LINKS: Link to Judge Trump Barry’s statement: “Work is its own reward.” You know, just keep working no matter how old you get”. http://erisapensionclaims.com/AT_T/Engers2011/Engers%20v%20AT&T%203rd%20Circuit%20Transcript%20final.pdf (page 30, line 19) Link to Supreme Court decision for the employees in the Cigna lawsuit: http://erisapensionclaims.com/CIGNA/pdfs2011/Cigna%20v%20Amara%20Supreme%20Court%20Opinion%205162011.pdf Link to Bonny Berger’s 13-year wearaway: http://www.erisapensionclaims.com/AT_T/October2004/ReplyBriefEngers.pdf (page 12, paragraph 3)

American Renaissance (AmRen) is white supremacist organization led by a man named Jared Taylor. They are designated as a hate group by several human rights organizations including the Southern Poverty Law Center. Montgomery Bell State Park will be hosting their annual national conference this year. This conference draws a wide array of other racist and fascist hate groups including the Ku Klux Klan, neo-nazis, holocaust deniers, and others to the park. This constitutes a clear and present danger to public health and the safety of park patrons and the people of Dickson, TN and must be stopped.

Indiana State Senator Dennis Kruse has introduced a bill that ""may require the recitation of the Lord's Prayer at the beginning of each school day". This is a clear violation of the Constitution and will be overturned should the bill pass. Please quash this bill.

To slow and stop gun violence and mass shootings, we must go to the heart of the problem- the Second Amendment

Federal unions cannot bargain pay, pensions and healthcare benefits except for postal and ATC unions. This allows unilateral cuts by Uncle Sam - unlike state and local workers such as 2+ yrs of pay freezes.

In the days following the Sandy Hook shooting tragedy, the NRA offered no reasonable solutions for our national gun violence crisis. And now, a coalition of gun groups have organized a day to honor guns. The deaths of thousands of Americans from gun violence is no joke. NRA, Gun Appreciation Day is offensive and wrong, and you need to condemn it!

WE WON!!! Iowa DOT reversed course and will issue driver’s licenses to young immigrants ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Director Paul Trombino and the Iowa Department of Transportation recently announced that they will not issue state IDs or driver’s licenses to immigrants who qualify for work permits under President Obama's new Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Granting driver’s license to DACA applicants is good for public safety and this decision is an unacceptable attack on Iowa's immigrant community. Director Trombino is playing politics with the lives of young Iowans. Even the American Civil Liberties Union believes that state officials should be granting driver’s licenses and state ID cards to these immigrants. We demand that Director Trombino reverse his decision to deny driver's licenses to those who have been granted work permits under the new DACA program.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been without a full time Director for over six years. As a retired supervisory ATF agent and gun owner, I find this problematic as we try to agree upon new sensible laws and regulations.

Changing the culture of our country to rethink about guns. Letting the government know that there are people in our country who want to see restrictions on all guns for the civilian population.

State Senator Dennis Kruse that "may require the recitation of the Lord's Prayer at the beginning of each school day."

The Pennsylvania ruling republican house & senate passed a shell bill effectively eliminating General Assistance Benefits to ten's of thousands of Pennsylvanians. It is more than a loss of $102.50 it is also a loss of a way for those most in need to show a 'proof of income'.