Because I have not seen prominent women's groups or labor unions taking an active role in opposing this ruling.

Because I am fed up, & I am not going to stand ideally by while my friends are near death, due to stress. I Bid You Peace, Louis Aaron, [email protected]

I am starting this petition because we need to quit cutting CHIP, Medicare, Medicaid, ACA, and all the other things that benefit the poor, elderly, children, and disabled. The rich don't need cuts. The businesses don't make new jobs. The poor just live on the street, get hungry, and die. The rich don't need a second home and a new car. Those less fortunate need basics.

Since 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has filled the pockets of fossil fuel executives and Wall Street CEOs at the expense of working people and the environment in the US, Canada, and Mexico. From helping corporations undermine democratic rule and union power through secretive Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) tribunals to exacerbating pollution and displacing immigrants, this rigged deal has harmed middle class and low-income families, people of color, and nearly everyone who is not a big corporation. Now the Trump Administration is renegotiating NAFTA, but the talks are taking place behind closed doors, with the public shut out and corporate polluters invited in. We cannot sit silently while Trump invites billionaires to tweak NAFTA. We must fight to #ReplaceNAFTA with an agreement that puts people and planet first, not corporations. While job-outsourcing corporations ask for even more handouts in NAFTA 2.0, Congress must push for a NAFTA replacement that supports good union jobs, climate justice, and healthy and thriving communities. While Trump tries to use his NAFTA agenda to build a racist border wall, Congress must call for a replacement deal that raises wages and environmental standards for workers, immigrants, and communities across North America. Rather than pitting communities against each other, we center racial, economic, and environmental justice in our fight for a new approach to trade.

CNOM (Concerned Neighbors of Matteson), on behalf of 19,000 residents with a median Income of $75-78,000, transparency through an open Government that is committed to an Annual Public Townhall Meeting to Review its Budget and Annual Audits, and the development and monitoring of a joint effort with CNOM to bring Businesses to Matteson. CNOM proposes a Strategic Economic Development Empowerment Plan targeting new trendsetting, and cutting-edge High Technology Companies in conjunction with production companies, and delivery warehouse centers; the development of E-Commerce Facilities /Centers that are designed to become the Economic Hubs to generate and revitalize revolving tax revenues in Matteson. "The Village of Matteson's Business Districts" is geographically located off of Interstate Highways: 57, 80, 355, 94, 294, and 65 thus providing direct transportation ports on the East, West, South and North thoroughfares adjacent to Matteson. These new companies and businesses become Matteson's Economic Hubs that will generate and revitalize revolving tax revenues from throughout "The Village of Matteson's Business Districts. CNOM envisions and desires to work with major Business entities and to create and build and enhance existing retail corridors that are aligned with specialized medical service centers, stores and high tech educational institutions and training centers, flanked by restaurants, bars, and family entertainment centers. CNOM Write CNOM at [email protected] God Bless The Village of Matteson

Workers' compensation is not protecting its workers. Based on the changes of 2007, if you were hurt prior to 2007, your compensation is based on wages the year you were injured, not your current wage. I had to go out on workers compensation in 2015 for surgery from a 2002 injury and was paid 18.75% of current wages. In 2002, I had 0 children, in 2015 I had 3. My property and school taxes weren't reduced to 18.75 %. When welfare pays more than WC, the system is terribly broken and doesn't protect the worker at all. This was my second cervical fusion and it has failed, I have been asked if I want another surgery and I keep pushing it off. Am I going to have to set up a GO FUND ME page, since NYS laws sold me out as a worker? I had rainy day money saved, I survived. Would you? I will not again. NY has been proposing changes to the system in 2017 - 2018 and it will only make it even worse.

We want to start out stating this is not a petition to attack religious beliefs. It is a petition to remove the tax exempt status that ALL religious organizations have. Religious organizations should be entitled to tax write-offs like all other businesses but should not continue to receive a Non-Profit operating status. The taxes collected from the church can go into helping our communities infrastructure, public schools/education, health care and public assistance programs to help stimulate the economy.

I am a School Bus Driver and I truly believe that when we get snow days that we should at least still get paid for half a day as for we are not the reason that there is no school we can not control the climate

GPO and WEP penalize thousands of retirees; 79% of them are women. Loss of earned benefits is severe, often resulting in substantial lifestyle reductions and even poverty for first responders, fire and police personnel, who may have come from the military, as well as teachers, librarians, air traffic controllers, secretaries and others whose fully-earned Social Security from previous jobs will be cut back when they retire. Their spouses suffer loss as well.

Yes, it's hard to get jobs nowadays if you haven't really worked or if you have worked and quit.

Dear Colleagues, As educators, we seek to do what is right for the children entrusted to our care each and every day. We are there for them, with love, empathy, and a desire to see them succeed. We do this in ways seen and unseen, and we do it consistently. That’s why we as MCEA Board members are deeply concerned about the events surrounding the tobacco attestation implementation. What has occurred over the past week has been very troubling, and we believe demonstrates a lack of empathy and understanding for educators, their time, and their pay. It is in stark contrast to the actions we take each and every day, for the benefit of this community’s children. We seek to do the right thing and expect that each and every paycheck will accurately reflect the earnings of our wholehearted efforts. We depend on those earnings to support ourselves, our families, and our children, where each and every dollar we bring home matters. So when so many of us learned that we had been assessed a charge, after completing the attestation, we were shocked. And yet, in these days, we have gone about our work, doing the right thing for children, trusting that we will be made whole. Some of us attested before a window was open, although we were never notified that we had completed the task too early to count. Others of us attested although a technical issue said we had not. As educators, we sought to do the right thing, with honorable intent and were met with the most unpleasant news of a paycheck less than we had earned. The right thing to do here is to immediately return the deducted dollars to all of those impacted. The right thing is to demonstrate care and empathy for those who care for our children. And collectively, we expect the right thing will be done. Our strength comes in our collective voice, and we will now exercise that voice through this petition. In it, we will join one another and make clear to our employer that whether we were impacted or not, an injury to one is an injury to all. We appreciate and honor the selfless work you do. We know that collectively we can right this injustice. The MCEA Board of Directors David Airozo Valerie Coll Brian Donlon Justin Fauntroy Henoch Hailu Josh Halpren Heather Hunter Christopher Lloyd Susan Loftus Cindy Lotto Jennifer Martin Glenn Miller Lauren Moskowitz Phyllis Parks Robinson Doug Prouty Dionna Ricks Java Robinson Nikki Woodward

The Right to Work legislation gives employers the right to fire workers for no reason, destroying the middle class. Workers who have never had negative work issues are fired and most are over 40 years of age, and find it difficult or impossible to find employment making comparable pay. After 23 years working for theCity Of Detroit, myself and hundreds were fired without cause. Although we were labeled Civil Servants ,we were fired without the rights of Civil Servants.