Most people support a wage increase. I believe they will vote in 2014 for the person that pushes for the increase.

On November 7th, more than 50 Walmart workers and community supporters were arrested while committing an act of peaceful civil disobedience to challenge Walmart on its low wages. The day before, Walmart workers in Los Angeles went on strike to protest the company’s illegal retaliation against workers who have come together to speak out for fair wages, adequate hours and respect in the workplace. This is just the first of the actions Walmart can expect throughout the holiday season and on Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year. While we’re keeping the pressure up at stores and in the streets, we need your help to take this fight to the next level. That’s why I’m asking you to join me in calling on President Obama to meet with us, the Walmart workers who are challenging America’s largest private employer to do better. The day President Obama was inaugurated I, like many others, felt an overwhelming sense of accomplishment and hope. As a 60-year-old African American woman who marched with Martin Luther King Jr., I felt like we were closer to realizing King’s dream of good jobs and freedom. Today, we may not have segregation by law, but we have it in practice thanks to the economic realities of our country. For people regardless of race or upbringing to sit at the same lunch counter, they have to be able to afford the same lunch. Walmart, the country’s largest employer, is helping to hold America back from this dream. Like too many Americans, I cannot promise my grandchildren that they will have a brighter future than I had – in our country a small elite is actively impoverishing the vast majority. More-and-more of us are struggling to nourish our children and to pay our bills. Dynasties like the Waltons, the richest offspring in America, hoard a bundle in cash equal to what 42% of every man, woman, and child in this country have combined. Walmart boasts $16 billion in worker-generated-profits and can afford to stop derailing our economy. At an event in 2008, then-candidate Obama said, “I don't mind standing up for workers and letting Walmart know they need to pay a decent wage and let folks organize. …This is about reminding [Walmart] that… the well-being of their workers and other workers should matter to them.” Our country is at a crossroads. Although our economy has started to improve especially for those on Wall St., many of us are still left without jobs or scrambling to survive on the much lower wages employers get away with offering. It’s time for the President to meet with Walmart workers like me who are standing up to Walmart and hear about the reality of scraping by on Main Street.

We can No Longer Survive on what They Pay.

Watermark is buying Commercial Site 1 and 2 on Discovery Creek in Harmony neighborhood in Spring Texas to build Multi Family Housing. Let the Developers and Investors know how you feel about an apartment complex being built in the area.

The aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis continues to impact families in PA-8 and all across the country. By acting now, we can create a new source of funding that will get our fellow Americans back to work and grow our economy. Working poor and middle-class Americans, the backbone of this great country, deserve nothing less.

STOP FAST TRACK LEGISLATION ON THE TRANS-PACIFIC-PARTNERSHIP TRADE AGREEMENT

The aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis continues to impact families all across the country. By acting now, we can create a new source of funding that will get our fellow Americans back to work and grow our economy. Working poor and middle-class Americans, the backbone of this great country, deserve nothing less.

Unions are hated by business owners and unavailable to most workers, moreover they have been diminished by scandal and senselessly require payment for membership. The aims of this petition are to set in motion the official facilitation of worker empowerment without the institution of unions as we know them today. In our service-based economy, the majority of US workers are paid little, easily replaced and have the lowest net worth in generations. There is no reason that the first amendment right to assemble should be circumvented by societal pay-to-play unions or outright banned by any employer in the land. Furthermore we would propose that any benefits will be provided through employers as they are to any employee; no additional management of pensions, insurances or assurances than already exists. This, in the vision of the Altruist Party, will ensure that workers can truly collectively negotiate with employers free of bureaucratic hierarchies and allow membership to all requiring only their voice to participate.

Maximus coffee workers have been on strike in Houston since October 10th because company bosses have proposed to cut workers salaries by up to 50%, increase the employee cost of company health care plans and stop company contributions to retirement plans. We must put pressure on Maximus management to bargain fairly with UFCW so that workers can return to work as quickly as possible with a living wage and decent benefits. This would be a good outcome for the workers, the community as well as the company. It would be beneficial for the workers because when workers wages are cut, communities suffer because workers cannot continue to contribute to the community as they had before. it would be beneficial to the company because trained and experienced workers would continue to produce quality products instead of the inferior products produced by scabs or disgruntled, underpaid, overstressed workers. Boycott Maximus coffee and the companies that distribute their products which includes: Beaumont Coffee, Boston Best Products, Cafe D’Irio coffee, Cloverleaf Coffee, Folgers Coffee Products, Maxwell House Coffee Collections, Maxwell House Coffee Singles, Maxwell House De-Cafe coffee, Maxwell House Filter Packs, Maxwell House Instant Coffee, Maxwell House International Café, Nestle Coffee Products, Sanka Instant Coffee

The citizens, residents and business owners of Livingston, Montana stand to benefit from the communitie's economic developement via increased tourism that can be achieved by a PRIVATELY FUNDED rail passenger service that has regularly scheduled stops in Livingston at the existing, historic train depot. We encourage the Livingston City Commissioners to undertake legislative matters that will not pose a threat to the two objectives identified above.

As a resident of Seattle, I do business with and speak to folks making minimum wage in this city every day. These are the workers who prepare food, serve in retail sales, clean offices and homes, take care of the elderly and disabled and perform many additional jobs that make our city work. According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics national numbers, 25% of these folks are parents, three-quarters are over 20 years old, and over half are the primary wage earners in their households. As a matter of basic fairness, these responsible workers should be paid at a minimal level that allows them to live in the City of Seattle. Currently there is no such guarantee. Even though Washington State's minimum wage is higher than the federal minimum, the State minimum is still below the very basic minimal costs of living Seattle for even a single person. For those with a child to take care of, the situation is worse: a singe parent with one child would need to work over 80 sate-minimum-wage hours every week to support the basic needs of her family. (see more on these statistics here: http://livingwage.mit.edu/places/5303363000) Let's establish a City-wide minimum wage that begins to correct this injustice. If you work here, you should be able to live here!

Across the country, 6 cities have already passed paid sick leave. But in Pennsylvania, Republican State House Rep. Seth Grove has introduced legislation from the Koch brothers-backed group ALEC to block paid sick days in Pennsylvania. Tell the state legislators not to support right-wing Koch brothers legislation and instead support workers. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/10/24/2828431/pennsylvania-paid-sick-days-preemption/