• Demand Fair Pay for St. Kate’s Res Life Student Workers
    RAs completed full work related requirements throughout the 2018-2019 school year. However, they were not fairly or fully compensated for the work they completed. RAs report financial instability and lack of communication regarding this topic.
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    Created by Amanda K. Williams
  • Center Pocket Billiards Café needs your support to move to Prince George's County!!!!
    Center Pocket Billiards Café is a reputable small, minority-owned, family friendly business in Maryland. We are seeking the approval of a liquor license for a billiards and full-service restaurant and bar at 4931 Tesla Drive, Suites G-J, Bowie, MD 20715. We will provide a safe environment and host location for the American Poolplayers Association and TAP pool leagues, tournaments, and pool instruction. We host weekly adult, ladies, juniors, and seniors leagues. We are owned by pool players for pool players who love the sport of pool. Your support will allow our safe and family-friendly establishment to come to Prince George’s County. We encourage community involvement and participation. We welcome novice and experienced players as well as the curious to sign up for a team to connect with others in the community. We are coordinating our security plan with the Prince George’s County Police Department to ensure our security procedures are appropriately aligned with our business concept. Operating a safe and secure establishment is our number one priority, not only for our players and patrons but for the community as a whole. Thanks for your support!
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    Created by Leia Burks
  • Property tax relief for low income senior citizens
    If we allow our seniors to lose their homes because they can no longer manage to pay property taxes, we may be creating a new underclass of people dependant on public services who could have managed to take care of themselves if they didn't lose their homes. I spend the entire year trying to keep up with bi-annual property taxes on a limited income of veterans' pension. This leaves us with no savings at all for any emergent need, even a minimal cost doctor's visit is seriously considered as to necessity. My husband is a service-connected veteran but not at 100%, so no tax relief for him. Please consider the elderly of our state and don't allow them to become homeless and an unnecessary burden to society due to property taxes.
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    Created by Johnene Anderson
  • Support Public Banking
    I have been personally affected by this issue- everyone is touched by the private and rapacious banking and finance industry. I am a teacher, cannot afford to live in my county, and do not want my pension and tax dollars to be invested in fossil fuels or extractive, violent industries.
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    Created by Alison Malisa
  • Tell Steward Execs: Respect Hillside's Nurses, Patients and Community
    The for-profit healthcare machine, Steward Healthcare, is up to familiar antics: silence the nurse, forget the patient and make more money. Our nurse’s union began contract negotiations in October 2018 and have been operating on a series of extensions with the hope of reaching a reasonable deal. Instead of a fair union contract, Steward insists on an either/or decision - agree to a loophole that could bust the union or accept unfairly low wages and concessions on healthcare benefits; a coupling of “shut up or earn less” proposals. Our union is our most effective platform to stand up for our patients who need us for our specialized and individualized care. Hillside is the only hospital in the area that rehabilitates amputees, paraplegics and quadriplegics, patients with multiple sclerosis, brain injuries, and Parkinson’s, or those recovering from a stroke. It is a shame Steward wants to force us to decide on patient advocacy or jeopardizing our own economic welfare. Steward’s familiar antics leave us concerned that Hillside will join other local institutions in the graveyard of once owned Steward facilities; a healthcare flip that they later deem as a flop because there were not enough commas after the dollar sign. Our patients cannot afford for us to be another casualty of Ohio’s unregulated healthcare system – one that allows profit-centered healthcare giants, like Steward, to chew up and spit out community-minded hospitals. Join us in telling Steward that our nursing union is the best platform to advocate for our patients. Nurses should not have to choose between their union or unfair wages!
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    Created by Molly Homan
  • Renovation of the Lana`i Community Health Center Dental Clinic
    The LCHC Dental clinic is operating in a small space that could benefit from several upgrades and reconfiguration. These changes will further optimize efficiency and improve workflows and result in a decreased need for patients to travel off-island for certain dental procedures and services. Your signature on this petition will be shared with our funders to illustrate patient and community support for these improvements.
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    Created by Chande Schutte
  • We say NO to Industry City's Rezoning of Sunset Park
    Sunset Park has the largest, working-class industrial waterfront in Brooklyn, but Industry City wants to turn it into a playground for the rich. Industry City wants to change current zoning to build large chain retail stores and luxury hotels, which may lead to luxury housing. We must protect long-time residents, workers, and small, locally-owned businesses from rising rents and displacement. This is our neighborhood. We should be deciding the future of our waterfront and neighborhood, not private developers like Industry City. Sunset Park tiene la costa de agua industrial más grande. La comunidad de Sunset Park cuenta con una población de personas mayormente de clase obrera y bajo ingreso en Brooklyn. Descaradamente los patrones de Industry City quieren destruir nuestra comunidad, y convertirlo en un patio de recreo para los ricos. Mediante el mecanismo de rezonificación ellos desean cambiar la zonificación actual para construir grandes cadenas de tiendas minoristas y hoteles de lujo, lo que puede llevar a viviendas de lujo. Debemos proteger a los residentes, trabajadores y pequeñas empresas de propiedad local desde hace mucho tiempo del aumento de alquileres y desplazamientos. Este es nuestro barrio. Deberíamos decidir el futuro de nuestra línea de costa y vecindario, no de desarrolladores privados como Industry City. Protect Sunset Park is a coalition of individuals and organizations representing residents, workers, students and small businesses. We are independent from outside groups. Join us and stay informed. Contact us: [email protected] --- Proteja a Sunset Park es una coalición de individuos y organizaciones que representan a residentes, trabajadores, estudiantes y pequeñas empresas. Somos independientes de grupos externos. Únete a nosotros y mantente informado. Contacte a nosotros: [email protected]
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    Created by Protect Sunset Park
  • St. Mary's Support Staff Deserve a Fair Contract
    The 68 support staff employees who work in the St. Mary's public schools deserve a living wage and salaries and benefits comparable to similar jobs in surrounding districts. The school board's negotiations team has threatened to terminate them and to hire an out-of-town for-profit corporation. These employees are only about 3 % of the district's budget. These are our friends, neighbors and family members. Tell the school board to stop trying to intimidate these dedicated employees and to settle a fair contract NOW.
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    Created by Lucy Harlow
  • Limit Outdoor Seating At American Brass
    To prevent the loss of valuable pedestrian sidewalk space to American Brass restaurant while promoting an active, pedestrian community for people and businesses.
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    Created by Meghan Cirrito
  • UPDATED: UNM Hospital Employees: Sign the Petition and Comment – We Need a Fair Pay Increase - 2%...
    UNM Hospital Employees need to sign this petition NOW. When we started the petition in April we expected UNM Hospital Leadership to bargain in good faith with employees. We now know that the Chancellor and CEO of UNMH, along with the Board of Regents and the Hospital Trustees, are trying to hide from us and avoid addressing their failure to provide a Decent and Fair Pay Increase. Currently, UNM Hospital continues to offer only a 2% salary increase for employees. We are NOT BACKING DOWN. Please sign this petition and contact your State Representatives and State Senators and County Commissionsers by using the link below for a hand book with contact information - TELL THE ELECTED OFFICIALS TO DEMAND UNMH PROVIDE A FAIR PAY RAISE. Link to hand book: http://www.nmhospitalworkersunion.com/My%20Docs/2019/2019%20UNMH%20We%20Deserve%20a%20Fair%20Wage%20Handbook%206-23-19.pdf 2% is unfair ... and insulting to employees who have gone for years with no cost of living pay raises or an insufficient pay raise way below what their cost of living has been for most of the past decade. And the pay structure/scale at UNMH needs a huge re-alignment, which has been known by managers for years. A study is expected to be completed this year and will need sufficient funds in the FY 2020 budget to implement long overdue increases to employees - ONLY the Board of Regents can make sure that money is in the budget.
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    Created by Sharon Argenbright
  • Put an end to the Trump Tax Scam!
    The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act showered billions of dollars on the wealthiest Americans and mega-corporations, but largely left out millions of working families, many of whom are feeling the pain of unexpectedly smaller tax refunds or even owing additional taxes! Rather than continuing to give trillions of dollars away in tax cuts to mega-corporations and cutting our healthcare, nutrition, and education in order to pay for them, Congress should repeal this upside down, harmful law and instead concentrate its efforts on strengthening working family credits so parents can better care for their families and become more financially secure.
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    Created by Elyssa Schmier, MomsRising Picture
  • PETITION TO CHANGE MEAL/BREAK LAW IN THE STATE OF TEXAS
    I AM A U.S. ARMY VETERAN AND I HAVE WORKED FOR MY CURRENT COMPANY FOR 2 YEARS AND HAVE BEEN 200+ DAYS WITHOUT ANY LUNCH BREAKS OR BATHROOM BREAKS. I'M SURE THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO ARE GOING THROUGH THE SAME THING SINCE IT IS NOT AGAINST THE LAW OR REQUIRED IN THE STATE OF TEXAS FOR AN EMPLOYER TO GIVE AN EMPLOYEE A BREAK OR LUNCH AT ALL, NO MATTER HOW MANY HOURS THEY WORK. THIS LAW NEEDS TO CHANGE! AN EMPLOYER SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO PICK AND CHOOSE IF AN EMPLOYEE GETS TO HAVE LUNCH OR NOT. STOP THE UNFAIR TREATMENT! SIGN THIS PETITION TO HELP GET THIS FIXED. WE ARE EMPLOYEES, NOT SLAVES!
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    Created by RICARDO MILLAN-CEPERO