I am doing this so my State of Ohio does the right thing!

Removing late start Thursdays at Ray-Pec High School will allow the students to create a routine. After speaking with many parents, these late starts are creating issues with jobs, interferes with siblings, and can create an unsafe environment. Most students in high school should be capable of staying home by themselves without supervision. However, there are many students who are not capable of this. This petition could prove to the school the needs of the parents. The school says these late starts avoid having a teacher on service days. This is not true. They still have the same teacher on service days as all the other schools in the district. Panther time should be a privilege and a supervised activity. This shouldn't be something just given to students. Again, talking with parents of current and graduated students, their children got into trouble during Panther time because of the "free" environment. Students can sit anywhere and do whatever they want and if you go to the office to get your student they don't know where your teen will be. With all the school shootings, this is placing kids in harm's way. The last thing we need is to not know where students are. During Panther time students have snuck into places and have (by way of social media, NOT the school) been found to be doing inappropriate, non-school sanctioned activities. With teens, we all know the activities that have happened. Put the students' safety FIRST.

Kids across the country are heading back to school—but *half a million* of them could go hungry. The President just released a plan to take away SNAP (a.k.a. food stamps) from millions of hungry families, including free school lunches for 500,000 kids! Studies show that children need good nutrition to do well in school. As parents, we're fighting to save school lunches for our kids. Will you join us? Our petition launched on Facebook last week and already **850,000 people have signed!!** We can stop this! Please sign and share to help us get to 1 million!

Kids across the country are heading back to school—but *half a million* of them could go hungry. The President just released a plan to take away SNAP (a.k.a. food stamps) from millions of hungry families, including free school lunches for 500,000 kids! Studies show that children need good nutrition to do well in school. I'm a mom, and I’m fighting to save school lunches for our kids. Will you join me? **UPDATE: 850,000 people have signed this petition on Facebook!! Please sign and share to help us get to 1 million!**

The need to protect the wild horses of Corolla especially after the death of Joaquin because of getting caught on the barbed wire fence

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Equifax let us think we were going to get a $125 cash payout to settle an investigation into a massive data breach. But recently we learned they intended claimants to sign up for credit monitoring services and never intended to pay out $125 -- and now say they can't. The government is supposed to protect us from scams and deceptive advertising--but under the Trump administration they’re in on the con. Momentum is building to demand the Federal Trade Commission's Inspector General investigate this deception. Your petition signature can help show the FTC's IG that the public demands action and won't sit by while the FTC and Equifax mislead the American people.

We need to implement a 10¢ national bottle deposit on plastic bottles, cans, and glass bottles in order to force more people to recycle. We cannot defeat climate change without changing our national recycling habits.

'Dancing with the Stars' on ABC Network needs to drop Sean Spicer immediately.

Every American is being affected. Trump gets free media coverage and the other candidates don’t.

Dear Governor Roy Cooper, We thank you for your leadership and valor in standing with the immigrant community. As you said in your swift action, this bill is harmful and nothing more than patrician political tactics to scare our community. With this veto, you affirm your long-standing recognition that the immigrant communities are a vital part of North Carolina. We will continue to work with your office and our community to fight any more attacks against our families! Thank you, El Colectivo NC and the community

On August 20th, Members of the executive board of CWA 1168 conducted a series of concerning votes. In addition to always pushing the local for more member participation and decision-making, Patrick Weisansal has fought for open bargaining for the last 2 contracts. Open bargaining means inviting members to bargaining sessions so that any member can sit in the bargaining room and see and hear what is happening live. During this bargaining, Patrick was always pushing for more updates and more member participation. He felt that members should know day to day what was happening at the bargaining table. Unfortunately, much of the executive board did not support this. Patrick has been fired from his position as Organizing Director at the local. Mary Nowocien has also been fighting for open bargaining and more transparency and participation of members during bargaining. She runs a program to reach out to all new members to welcome them to CWA, see how they are, and serve as a mentor for our new members. She also was a vocal supporter of open bargaining, brought in new stewards, and involved/educated rank and file members as mobilizers/organizers. Mary also vocalized her opinion on the contract especially on the lump sum bonus and changes in language. Mary has been fired from her position as New Hire Committee Chair. Mary and Patrick are leaders in a national initiative through our national union called CWA Strong. This is a program that encourages member participation and wins with members leading the fight. Some of the executive board suspended funding for this project that our membership voted on and fired the facilitator from the trainings. This project has been in place and moving forward for over a year. A couple of examples of CWA Strong initiatives: - Staffing letter. A group of CWA members communicated with members throughout Buffalo General to gather their staffing issues and bring them to management in a meeting in the spring. This was leading up to bargaining and was to prepare us for the fight to take Kaleida Health on for better staffing. - When members came out strong against uniform color rules, CWA Strong and Patrick led a fight to and deliver a pile of petitions and won. This was a big win and made news. - Mary Nowocien led a fight against the closing and cutting of the cafeteria hours at DeGraff and won from working closely with the workers affected and including them in the fight. - The New Hire Committee that worked with new CWA members to welcome them to their new position, support, and mentor them through their probationary period. - Pennies for Evelyn: when Kaleida wanted to take away a pay differential for a longtime lower wage union member, CWA Strong made sure she didn’t lose her differential. We, the undersigned, are against the firing of Patrick Weisansal, Mary Nowocien, and the cutting off of the CWA Strong Program. Instead, we believe in the following principles: - Fighting for issues that are deeply and widely felt by members. - Putting the issues that are widely and deeply felt above the relationships of union leaders and management - “Nothing about us, without us”. Members affected by a particular working condition get the biggest say in how and when it is fixed or changed - including total transparency around bargaining and the inner workings of our union. - No more two-tiered systems. We won’t sell younger or newer workers out for the benefit of any other members. It is unacceptable for union leaders to fire their fellow members for being outspoken and wanting to do things differently. We wouldn’t allow the employer to do it and we can’t let our own local. Initiated by the following executive board, special directors and bargaining committee members, Cori Gambini - President - CWA Local 1168 Sarah Buckley - Legislative & Political Action Director, CWA 1168, Millard Fillmore Registered Nurse Michele Murray - Area Vice-President, Buffalo General Hospital, Technical, Clinical, Clerical Bargaining Unit Nadine LaFalce - Area Vice-President, Millard Fillmore Hospital Technical, Clinical, Clerical Bargaining Unit Myriah Kin - Chief Steward, Bargaining Committee Member, BGH, Technical, Clinical, Clerical Elaine Morley - Chief Steward, Bargaining Committee Member, Buffalo General Hospital Registered Nurses Frank Jurgens - Chief Steward, Bargaining Committee Member, MFS, Technical, Clinical, Clerical Denise Abbott - Healthy & Safety Director, CWA 1168, DeGraff Memorial Hospital Registered Nurse Kim Kornowski - Steward, Bargaining Committee Member, Millard Fillmore Hospital Registered Nurses Mary Nowocien - Chief Steward, Bargaining Committee Member, DeGraff, Technical, Clinical, Clerical, Service Former Chairperson for the New Hire Committee Patrick Weisansal II - Former Mobilizing and Organizing Director, CWA Local 1168

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