• MDOL Revision of Work Week definition for overtime pay
    Many employers are overlapping schedules so that one workweek overlaps into a second workweek. Because of present labor laws on over time and what is defined as a workweek, the employer is exempt from paying overtime or from giving a day off to the employees even after they've worked for 40 hours. Many employees are working 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 full time consecutive work days without a day off and with no overtime pay.
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    Created by Linda Anthony
  • Get the 99% Deficit Proposal Heard in Congress
    Ask the Congressional Super Committee to consider taxing the super-wealthy and tax-dodging corporations instead of cutting critical social programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. A deficit reduction proposal has been researched and prepared by Occupy Washington, DC. You can read the entire text at:
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    Created by Jay Heyman
  • Support Mass Transit benefits!
    Federal tax law allows employees to use pre-tax dollars to pay for their commuting expenses. In 2012 the maximum tax-free discount to each employee for TRANSIT will be $125 per month, but for PARKING it is $240 per month!! This is a change from last year when congress had the levels equals for parking and transit. Commuters who use mass transit should get the same benefit as drivers!!!
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    Created by Ellen Pomes
  • Start Fighting Back!
    The airwaves are full of commercials with Bill Clinton saying there should be no new taxes and President Obama saying we need to tax the wealthy. There has been zero response from the Democratic National Committee or Bill Clinton refuting these commercials. This pathetic behavior needs to stop. We the democratic people demand that you start fighting back now.
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    Created by Dennis Cox
  • Ban the Box: Equal Opportunity Employment
    Many individuals with criminal records get turned away by putting on their application they have been convicted of a crime. By "Banning the Box" we can help these individuals get recognized for their skills rather than their pasts. Please help create safer communities and lower the rate of recidivism!
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    Created by Chad Montgomery
  • Allow Student Loan Refinancing For All
    Americans carry more student loan debt than credit card debt. Federal Loans lock in an interest rate that is currently unchangeable. This petition urges the President to allow borrowers to refinance their student loan interest rate to a lower, more rational rate. Banks are borrowing money at less than 1% interest yet many student loans are locked in at nearly 7.5% Reducing interest rates will allow debtors to repay their borrowed money but at a rate that allows us to actually have a life, rather than working only to repay debt. This is not debt forgiveness, but debt compassion.
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    Created by Chris Niro
  • Contract for the American Dream
    Please sign our petition asking Rep. Mike Honda and Rep. Zoe Lofgren to support "The Contract for the American Dream." We will deliver our petition to them at the "Jobs Not Cuts" Rally. Please join us: "Jobs Not Cuts" Rally January 9, 2012 at 5:30 San Jose City Hall Rotunda 200 East Santa Street San Jose, CA 95113 Email: [email protected] webpage: DreamMenders.org
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    Created by Dream Menders
  • End Unpaid and Limitless Over-Time Work
    Many of the middle class in the U.S. put in hundreds of unpaid overtime hours per year. That is because we are considered "salaried" or "exempt", under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and not legally entitled to collect over-time pay. This "Exempt" employee category, is effectively preventing the creation of jobs and the related collection of potential income taxes. Changes in this law could help prevent injuries or health problems, and lead to millions paying jobs, and the collection of Billion of Dollars in additional income taxes.
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    Created by Joy F. Sokeitous
  • Fair Taxation for Contract Workers In Antarctica
    Our fight is about taxation without representation and all we ask for is fairness. We believe that if someone is not entitled to any of the protections under federal law for employment related injuries or labor abuses, then one should be provided relief from the taxes that presumably help pay for benefits such as these protections. We ask for this relief.
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    Created by Chris Carter
  • Save the Social Safety Net
    No "super committee" cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Disability, or Veteran's payments. To protect the poor, low income, and disabled from further hardships.
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    Created by George P Reichel
  • Stop all free trade agreements! President Obama and Congress, please read this jobs plan.
    We have a trade imbalance that has averaged around $600 billion a year for the last decade. Why? "Free" trade brings cheap goods here to the U.S. We are facing unemployment problems here in America why? "Free" trade us putting American workers in direct competition with foreign workers making $4 and hour. If we put tariffs back up, the price or goods would go up - making it possible to produce here and giving the government the money needed to stimulate job growth, without borrowing. Learn more here: http://www.opednews.com/articles/An-Economic-Recovery-Plan-by-E-David-Ferriman-110923-599.html
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    Created by E. David Ferriman
  • We The People..."The American Dream"
    The American People need to contribute to the creation of jobs that will employ Americans & enable each of us to realize the American Dream remains obtainable. It should be Our goal to have ALL AMERICANS rally around the patriotic principle of buying American made goods & Services exclusively. In doing so we need to unify in solidarity by sending a clear and concise message to the company's of this world that we the American workers.... ARE NOT FOR SALE TO THE LOWEST BIDDER!
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    Created by robin flamish