March 27, 2018

Tell Disney CEO Bob Iger: Don’t discriminate against your union employees!

Disney and its CEO Bob Iger are discriminating against 41,000 working people fighting for a better life for their families.

On Jan. 23, Disney CEO Bob Iger joined a number of major corporations announcing bonuses as a benefit from the federal tax cut. At Disney, that meant 125,000 employees would see a payout in the amount of $1,000.

But while Disney offered most Cast Members the bonuses with no conditions, for over 41,000 union members in Orlando, FL and Anaheim, CA currently in contract negotiations, there was a catch: They must agree to the company’s insulting contract proposals.

Together with their unions, the people who feed, entertain, serve and clean up after guests at Disney theme parks are demanding a $15 living wage. But even after a new report revealed that 73% of Disneyland crew members do not earn enough for basic expenses every month, and 11% have been homeless, the company still refuses to budge.

So-called family-friendly businesses like Disney should not go out of their way to make life harder for the people who work for them. The cast members who make Disney so successful deserve job standards and wages that value families, NOT broken promises.

Add your name to tell CEO Bob Iger to pay all Disney Employees the bonuses he promised them and to go back to the bargaining table with their unions.

May 18, 2017

Stop Corporate Greed at AT&T Wireless

More than 21,000 people who work for AT&T Wireless are standing up to powerful corporate interests for good jobs and a better future for us all.

AT&T rakes in huge profits – earning a record $13 billion last year. Yet the telecommunications giant wants the men and women who make them so successful to agree to pay cuts and outsourcing.

The team at AT&T Wireless is pushing back, and ready to strike against working more for less.

Unite with them in their emblematic fight against corporate greed. Write AT&T’s CEO Randall Stephenson to support them reaching a contract to save family-sustaining jobs.

April 19, 2017

Write your Representative today: Don’t steal overtime pay from working people

When Congress returns from recess, the House will take up the “Working Families Flexibility Act” (HR 1180.) This bill offers working people a false choice between time off and money.

What it’s really doing is stealing overtime pay from working families, further eroding basic protections for working people.

Overtime pay is an opportunity for working people to earn a little more while creating a disincentive for employers to overwork employees.

The misnamed “Working Families Flexibility Act” would allow employers to borrow their employees’ overtime pay interest-free, without any security, putting it at risk for workers at the 400,000 businesses that go out of business every year.

Write your representative today and tell them to reject the “Working Families Flexibility Act” and maintain overtime protections for millions of working people.

Most low- or moderate-wage working people whose paychecks are not enough, would always prefer to work extra hours to receive extra pay, not receive comp time with no guarantee they can ever use it.

February 27, 2017

Uniting for Good Jobs at AT&T Wireless

More than 21,000 people who work for AT&T Wireless are standing up to powerful corporate interests to demand good jobs and a better future for us all. They are joining together to negotiate a fair contract and pushing back against AT&T’s demands to do more work for less.

They’re also prepared to do whatever it takes to stick their necks out to save family-sustaining jobs and sustain their communities, including going on strike.

Join with them and send a message to CEO Randall Stephenson that customers and the public will stand with the working people of AT&T for as long as it takes. Add your name to our petition today!

February 3, 2017

Call Your Senator: Stand up for Public Education and #DumpDeVos

The pressure to stop Trump’s billionaire nominee for Secretary of Education from being confirmed is working. Two Republican senators, Susan Collins (Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), just announced that they will oppose Betsy DeVos’ confirmation.

That means that we’re just ONE vote short from blocking DeVos’ confirmation altogether. We need to keep up the pressure more than ever to sway one more senator to vote against DeVos.

There’s no time to waste. The full Senate will take a final vote on DeVos on Tuesday. If you live in Arizona, Kansas, Ohio, Nebraska, Nevada, Pennsylvania or West Virginia –your senator is undecided. Please make a call ASAP to their office to encourage them to #DumpDeVos.

Call 1-855-882-6229 to get connected to your senator’s Washington, D.C. office or check below for district office phone numbers for your senator.

Here’s a sample script for your call:

Hi, my name is (NAME). As a concerned constituent from (YOUR STATE), I urge the senator to oppose Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos. Her confirmation hearing proved that she lacks both the experience and qualifications to lead the Department of Education. She should not be put in charge of students and our schools. She has zero experience with public education, and spent millions dismantling and defunding public schools. Students deserve better. We need a Secretary of Education who will help to improve success for all students, including creating more opportunities and equity for all. Thanks for taking my call.

DeVos, a billionaire lobbyist, and political donor, has zero experience with public schools – not as an educator, a school board member, a student, or even as a parent – and has spent her career defunding and dismantling public education. DeVos bankrolled and lobbied for failed schemes like voucher programs, which take money away from public schools to fund private schools at taxpayers’ expense, and with little to no accountability. She designed Detroit’s failed charter school program, which harmed already vulnerable students. DeVos even lacks experience in higher education and holds controversial positions on students with disabilities and student loans.

If you agree we need an experienced, highly qualified Secretary of Education who actually wants to improve success for ALL students and invest in public schools, raise your voice with us now!

January 11, 2017

T-Mobile: Stop Using Predatory Sales Goals

T-Mobile needs to learn a lesson. Less than three years ago, the telecommunications giant saddled millions of customers with unwanted charges resulting in a $90 million settlement with the government.

Now, T-Mobile sales and customer service representatives say they’re under tremendous stress to meet unrealistic performance goals, forcing them to make sales at any cost, or risk retaliation in the form of reduced hours, pay cuts or job loss. A new report finds that T-Mobile’s demands leads to some staff enrolling unknowing customers with bogus charges and unwanted services.

Enough is enough. Sign our petition urging CEO John Legere to drop the high-pressure sales and finally do right by the working people of T-Mobile and their customers.