** American Rights at Work **
Wal-Mart has been threatening employees to not vote for pro-worker candidates like Barack Obama in November because they support the Employee Free Choice Act. If passed, the bill would make it easier to form unions in stores like Wal-Mart.
Telling employees how to vote in a U.S. election is not only morally reprehensible, it's potentially illegal.
So we’re starting a petition to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), asking for an investigation into Wal-Mart’s electioneering. Can you sign on?
Ask the Federal Election Committee to investigate Wal-Mart’s potentially illegal intimidation.
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** Working Families **
Wal-Mart is so intimidated by the very possibility of a unionized workforce that its supervisors have been holding mandatory meetings essentially telling employees to vote against Democrats and Sen. Barack Obama this November.
Wal-Mart is taking this outrageous step because the Democrats and Barack Obama have committed to pass the Employee Free Choice Act to restore workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain for fair wages, health care, decent working conditions and a real voice on the job. All of America’s workers have the right to freely decide whom to vote for independent of employer pressure and intimidation.
Tell Wal-Mart to stop intimidating workers TODAY
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** Natural Resources Defense Council **
Contaminated beachwater can cause infections, rashes, diarrhea, vomiting and other harmful and uncomfortable symptoms in swimmers. To ensure that our beaches are safe for all, beach monitoring programs must be strengthened and the sources of beach pollution, most often stormwater and sewage, must be identified and addressed.
Congress has the opportunity to help clean up contaminated beaches and to make sure sources of beach pollution are identified and addressed. Urge your senators to pass the Beach Protection Act.
Send a message urging your senators to push for passage of the Beach Protection Act (S. 2844).
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** Public Citizen **
We trust nursing homes to make sure our loved ones are in a safe environment where they eat their meals on time, receive their prescribed medications, and have attentive care.
Sadly, many elderly residents are neglected.
Mary Hight was dehydrated and ill for days, but her nursing home wouldn’t call an ambulance. Her daughter had no choice but to push her in a wheelchair to a nearby hospital, where she died the next day. Adding insult to injury, Mary’s family couldn’t sue the nursing home and hold it accountable in court -- because it had put something called a “binding mandatory arbitration” clause in the fine print of its admission papers.
Instead of focusing on providing the best care to their residents, nursing homes are busy immunizing themselves from accountability for their wrongdoing -- by stripping the elderly of the right to take them to court! This must end.
Help stop this predatory practice!
Congress is considering banning the use of pre-dispute binding mandatory arbitration in nursing home contracts NOW.
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