high gas prices in north carolina and the us

GM agreed with the local contract on our wages and benefits for workers who work FOS, Flexible Operating Schedules by signing and agreeing with what was in our "local" contract. It stated that employees who work the FOS should be compensated for working 12hr shifts, and, every other Saturday and Sunday by being paid premium pay on Sat. and Sun. forgoing a regular 8hr 5-day week "normal" schedule. Also no overtime for working 8hrs. By sacrificing by not working the "normal" schedule we were promised by GM who signed to and agreed to the local contract. But now they want to pay us straight time for pay even though it would be violating the agreement they signed and agreed to. Please don't let them win they have cut my wages in half and cut my heath benefits. They have "taken" so much making the workers sacrifice while the CEOS and top executives give themselves bonus and raises they don't even deserve for a company they caused to go bankrupt by moving our jobs over seas. We need to stop them from "getting away' with violating the promise they made to their employees and then threatening workers by stating they'll close our facility or getting rid of the jobs we perform if we don't agree with what they want. Help us by signing below letting the politicians and the people in power know that workers have a right to a job and not threatening a union if we don't agree to their terms, even if what they are doing is a violation of the law--unfair labor practice, violated by not honoring what they agreed to. But they know they can intimidate if they don't get what they want "all the time"., Whats the purpose of a union if a corporation can threaten their workers with a loss of job? We sacrificed by letting our income get cut in half and our benefits reduced. It was our sacrifices that turned this company around. Not the CEO'S big bonuses and who shipped our jobs over sea that bankrupted American's who lost the jobs and could not afford to spend money they no longer had which caused this country to go bankrupt. Stand up and be counted, even if your not a union employee no one, especially in today's economy, should be threaten with losing their job. Don't let a big Corporation get away with violating the law nor the people who made them what they are today or it may be you next? If no one stands up then it's as if your agreeing with the unjust treatment. their Goliath we're David wont you be the stone in David's hand and help us get this giant so he doesn't step all over us and crush us all. Thank you for your support our jobs depend on it.

Seigneurie, a subsidiary of PPG Industries, a Pittsburgh-headquartered company is manufacturing paint in Cameroon that they know contains unsafe lead limits. According to a paint sample study done in Cameroon last year, nine of 24 Seigneurie paints bought in stores contained lead concentrations of more than 300 parts per million and eight of those had lead concentrations above 1,800 parts per million. One Seigneurie paint, for metal application, contained 500,000 parts per million of lead, or half its volume, according to the paint survey by CREPD, a Cameroon-based nonprofit. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208431-114-0.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml#ixzz1lekfAgjr

It has been reported in the Mount Vernon Patch that Safeway plans to tear down the 19,947-square-foot store at Fort Hunt Road and build a new 51,000-square-foot store with underground parking and outdoor seating available.

Monsanto is the largest Agricultural Corporation in the US. They have a monopoly on over 90% of our vegetable seeds. Obama has appointed an ex VP of Monsanto to serve as senior advisor for the FDA. Such a decision will allow even more dangers into our food industry, such as GMO's. we're asking President Obama to reverse his decision for the safety of American Consumers.

The decision to place any corporate executive into a cabinet position is a poor one, but the idea of allowing a Monsanto employee, former or current to sit in leadership of the Department of Agriculture's FDA is tantamount to not only letting the fox guard the henhouse but actually frying the chickens and hand-feeding them to Renard with a silver spoon!

Cut FDA ties to Monsanto

PPG Industries has been selling house paint high in lead content in the African nation of Cameroon for years, and although it says it stopped production of that paint late last year, it has rejected a request that it recall or accurately label its lead paints now selling in stores there. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208431-114-0.stm#ixzz1ldJDcWdU http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208431-114-0.stm

Monsanto influence over and corruption of Food Policy

It is too expensive. It is unfair to the old, poor or immigrant community who do not have or use computers. It favors the well off who have enough money in the bank for the service charge to be waived.

I was in Gander Mountain in Madison Wisconsin on February 5th and was shocked to see National Rifle Association clothing. They support the purchase of clips like the one used on Gabby Giffords and the others injured or killed only 1 year ago. They are a major lobbying force and should not be supported, I Support banning Gander Mountain.

About a year and a half ago I signed a contract with ADT to protect my daughter's house after she had the door knocked down and intruders came in to take her belongings. I signed a three year contract to pay $45 a month plus I paid them over $200 up front to install the electronic equipment. The house my daughter was renting has now been forclosed on and she can no longer live there. She has moved in with me. I do not want the equipment, I have several large dogs. Now I am being forced to pay two more payments of $45 and a $750 penalty. I feel this is totally unfair and amounts to poor and middle class people being disadvantaged.