** Service Employees International Union **
http://www.seiu.org/index.php
While in front of Congress, Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis revealed a shocking admission: he thinks it's in "the best interest" of Bank of America to spend money lobbying against economic recovery legislation like the Employee Free Choice Act.
That is not acceptable. Companies that receive tens of billions in taxpayer money should not be allowed to lobby against policies that would help out millions of taxpayers in this tough economy.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner recently did the right thing by imposing restrictions on bailout banks from using money for corporate jets and excessive executive pay. We're encouraging Secretary Geithner continue that progress by saying banks with government bailouts can't spend money on lobbying.
Sign our petition to encourage Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to stop banks with government bailouts from spending money on lobbying.
http://freechoice.seiu.org/page/s/lobbying
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Friday, February 13, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Jan 15, 2009 -- Fight the Right-Wing Wackos Links of the Day.
** Service Employees International Union **
( http://www.seiu.org/index.php )
When taxpayers gave Bank of America a $25 billion bailout, the country's largest bank was supposed to use the funds to help jumpstart the economy.
Bank of America instead misspent the money on foreign investments, executive salaries, and corporate jets. To top it off, Bank of America double-dipped, taking more money from our cash-strapped states by not paying for their workers' healthcare.
Yet this morning, the Wall Street Journal reports that Bank of America wants "billions" more in bailout funds.
Well, enough is enough. It's time for Bank of America to either use its bailout to help the economy and its workers - or give back the bailout.
Watch this video and then sign our petition demanding Bank of America help its workers with the bailout:
( http://freechoice.seiu.org/page/s/bankofamerica )
( http://www.seiu.org/index.php )
When taxpayers gave Bank of America a $25 billion bailout, the country's largest bank was supposed to use the funds to help jumpstart the economy.
Bank of America instead misspent the money on foreign investments, executive salaries, and corporate jets. To top it off, Bank of America double-dipped, taking more money from our cash-strapped states by not paying for their workers' healthcare.
Yet this morning, the Wall Street Journal reports that Bank of America wants "billions" more in bailout funds.
Well, enough is enough. It's time for Bank of America to either use its bailout to help the economy and its workers - or give back the bailout.
Watch this video and then sign our petition demanding Bank of America help its workers with the bailout:
( http://freechoice.seiu.org/page/s/bankofamerica )
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Dec 09, 2008 -- Fight the Right-Wing Wackos Links of the Day.
** Service Employees International Union **
( http://www.seiu.org/index.php )
McDonald's isn't lovin' free choice for its employees. The fast food giant is reportedly organizing its restaurant owners to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act. McDonald's has reportedly even formed an "internal response team...to actively participate in the opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act."
McDonald's has more than 600,000 employees in the US, many of whom earn less than $10/hour. But last year its CEO took home more than $13 million. Now McDonald's leadership is actively organizing to prevent its employees from standing up for themselves at work.
Write to McDonalds and say employees need the Employee Free Choice Act - we'll send your letters to McDonald's headquarters to make sure they get the message.
( http://freechoice.seiu.org/page/s/mcdonalds )
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** TrueMajority.org **
( http://www.truemajority.org/index.php )
Last month, Bank of America accepted $25 billion in taxpayer funds as part of the Wall Street Bailout. Now they're refusing to release lines of credit and causing hundreds to lose their jobs. In Chicago, workers making energy efficient windows and doors at the Republic Windows and Doors plant came to work only to be told their factory was shutting down and they would not be receiving the pay owed to them.
Hundreds of these laid-off workers have occupied their factory and are refusing to leave without receiving the benefits they rightly deserve — they're staying in the office day and night in their quest for justice.
Tell Bank of America and Congressional leaders to ensure that the Bailout Program be used to provide workers and companies with lines of credit to save jobs.
( http://act.truemajorityaction.org/p/7002/campaign?campaign_KEY=1557 )
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** ApolloAlliance.org **
( http://www.apolloalliance.org/ )
Here's the good news: President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to invest in clean energy and good jobs – he's asked Congress to have a bill ready for him on the day he takes office.
The bad news: A small group of powerful legislators, backed by Big Oil lobbyists, is bent on derailing our new energy future.
Leading them is Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), who's called global warming the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people" and labeled clean energy supporters like you "extremist".
As the top Republican on a key Senate committee, Sen. Inhofe wields enormous influence in deciding our energy future. But so do you.
Tell Sen. Inhofe and his buddies not to stall the clean energy plan America voted for in November.
( http://ga0.org/campaign/inhofecampaign_1208/ )
( http://www.seiu.org/index.php )
McDonald's isn't lovin' free choice for its employees. The fast food giant is reportedly organizing its restaurant owners to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act. McDonald's has reportedly even formed an "internal response team...to actively participate in the opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act."
McDonald's has more than 600,000 employees in the US, many of whom earn less than $10/hour. But last year its CEO took home more than $13 million. Now McDonald's leadership is actively organizing to prevent its employees from standing up for themselves at work.
Write to McDonalds and say employees need the Employee Free Choice Act - we'll send your letters to McDonald's headquarters to make sure they get the message.
( http://freechoice.seiu.org/page/s/mcdonalds )
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** TrueMajority.org **
( http://www.truemajority.org/index.php )
Last month, Bank of America accepted $25 billion in taxpayer funds as part of the Wall Street Bailout. Now they're refusing to release lines of credit and causing hundreds to lose their jobs. In Chicago, workers making energy efficient windows and doors at the Republic Windows and Doors plant came to work only to be told their factory was shutting down and they would not be receiving the pay owed to them.
Hundreds of these laid-off workers have occupied their factory and are refusing to leave without receiving the benefits they rightly deserve — they're staying in the office day and night in their quest for justice.
Tell Bank of America and Congressional leaders to ensure that the Bailout Program be used to provide workers and companies with lines of credit to save jobs.
( http://act.truemajorityaction.org/p/7002/campaign?campaign_KEY=1557 )
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** ApolloAlliance.org **
( http://www.apolloalliance.org/ )
Here's the good news: President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to invest in clean energy and good jobs – he's asked Congress to have a bill ready for him on the day he takes office.
The bad news: A small group of powerful legislators, backed by Big Oil lobbyists, is bent on derailing our new energy future.
Leading them is Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), who's called global warming the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people" and labeled clean energy supporters like you "extremist".
As the top Republican on a key Senate committee, Sen. Inhofe wields enormous influence in deciding our energy future. But so do you.
Tell Sen. Inhofe and his buddies not to stall the clean energy plan America voted for in November.
( http://ga0.org/campaign/inhofecampaign_1208/ )
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
SEIU to McCain: You Suck!
** Service Employees International Union **
Change is coming this November and SEIU members will continue knocking doors and making calls to elect Barack Obama, Joe Biden and pro-working families candidates to Congress across this country but we can't do it without you.
Watch the latest SEIU Video -->
"Bush and McCain: Where's The Difference?"
Sign up here to let us know you are willing to help organize on behalf of Senator Obama before the election, and to help pass progressive legislation when its over.
Change is coming this November and SEIU members will continue knocking doors and making calls to elect Barack Obama, Joe Biden and pro-working families candidates to Congress across this country but we can't do it without you.
Watch the latest SEIU Video -->
"Bush and McCain: Where's The Difference?"
Sign up here to let us know you are willing to help organize on behalf of Senator Obama before the election, and to help pass progressive legislation when its over.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
SEIU on McCain's Healthcare Plan: You Suck!
** SEIU **
Will you help keep healthcare front-and-center in this election? Watch SEIU's new healthcare ad and use the form below to share with friends and coworkers.
http://action.seiu.org/worriedsick/
Will you help keep healthcare front-and-center in this election? Watch SEIU's new healthcare ad and use the form below to share with friends and coworkers.
http://action.seiu.org/worriedsick/
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Sept 23, 2008 -- NO Blank Check to Wall Street!
** Working Families e-Activist Network **
George Bush, Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke came to Congress last weekend with a request for a $700 billion blank check to bail out Wall Street. Thankfully, our allies in Congress are pushing back against this dangerous and ill-conceived bill.
Our nation is facing a real financial crisis, brought on by seven years of Bush-McCain financial policies, that calls for action that is thoughtful and swift—but not hasty. The actions we take at this perilous time must set the stage for a real recovery that benefits Main Street as well as Wall Street.
The last thing we should do is compound the enormous imbalances in our economy with an enormously imbalanced rescue package.
Contact your member of Congress and their leaders today and tell them "no blank checks" for Wall Street.
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** SEIU **
When you mess up on the job, you get a pink slip.
When you're a corporate CEO running a multi-billion dollar enterprise into the ground, you get a golden parachute.
This week, the Bush Administration is seeking legislation that would grant the very people who got us into this mess a blank check to get us out.
No deal.
Sign the petition telling your representatives to vote NO on any blank check bailout for the Bush Administration.
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** Public Campaign Action Fund **
The New York Stock Exchange's opening bell sends shivers down the spines of all Americans as we consider the fate of the nation's largest banks and brokerages.
Years of easy credit, sub-prime lending, and market deregulation have led us to what may be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. What is Congress doing? Debating a taxpayer-financed bailout for the people who got us into this mess.
You can be sure that they are remembering the well over $5 billion the finance, insurance, and real estate firms have poured into campaign contributions and lobbying since 1990. What can we do?
Tell Congress in no uncertain terms: no blank checks for Wall Street donors. The American people can't afford a special interest bailout.
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** Democrats.com **
George Bush wants taxpayers to give Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson a $700 billion blank check - $2,333 for every man, woman, and child -to bail out Wall Street for its reckless speculation and greed. That's on top of $1.1 trillion for other recent bailouts, including A.I.G., Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Bear Stearns.
The Paulson Plan is a total outrage with no restrictions, no accountability, and no repair of the underlying problem of foreclosures on fraudulent mortgages. Each of Bush's previous bailouts was sold as a cure for the financial crisis, but each had little effect. The Paulson Plan achieves only one goal with certainty: stealing from the middle class to protect the rich.
The current financial crisis is the direct result of 28 years of rightwing Republican deregulation, corruption, and greed, which became fatally toxic under Bush-Cheney and the Republican Congress.
Congress must reject Paulson's Plunder
George Bush, Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke came to Congress last weekend with a request for a $700 billion blank check to bail out Wall Street. Thankfully, our allies in Congress are pushing back against this dangerous and ill-conceived bill.
Our nation is facing a real financial crisis, brought on by seven years of Bush-McCain financial policies, that calls for action that is thoughtful and swift—but not hasty. The actions we take at this perilous time must set the stage for a real recovery that benefits Main Street as well as Wall Street.
The last thing we should do is compound the enormous imbalances in our economy with an enormously imbalanced rescue package.
Contact your member of Congress and their leaders today and tell them "no blank checks" for Wall Street.
--
** SEIU **
When you mess up on the job, you get a pink slip.
When you're a corporate CEO running a multi-billion dollar enterprise into the ground, you get a golden parachute.
This week, the Bush Administration is seeking legislation that would grant the very people who got us into this mess a blank check to get us out.
No deal.
Sign the petition telling your representatives to vote NO on any blank check bailout for the Bush Administration.
--
** Public Campaign Action Fund **
The New York Stock Exchange's opening bell sends shivers down the spines of all Americans as we consider the fate of the nation's largest banks and brokerages.
Years of easy credit, sub-prime lending, and market deregulation have led us to what may be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. What is Congress doing? Debating a taxpayer-financed bailout for the people who got us into this mess.
You can be sure that they are remembering the well over $5 billion the finance, insurance, and real estate firms have poured into campaign contributions and lobbying since 1990. What can we do?
Tell Congress in no uncertain terms: no blank checks for Wall Street donors. The American people can't afford a special interest bailout.
--
** Democrats.com **
George Bush wants taxpayers to give Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson a $700 billion blank check - $2,333 for every man, woman, and child -to bail out Wall Street for its reckless speculation and greed. That's on top of $1.1 trillion for other recent bailouts, including A.I.G., Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Bear Stearns.
The Paulson Plan is a total outrage with no restrictions, no accountability, and no repair of the underlying problem of foreclosures on fraudulent mortgages. Each of Bush's previous bailouts was sold as a cure for the financial crisis, but each had little effect. The Paulson Plan achieves only one goal with certainty: stealing from the middle class to protect the rich.
The current financial crisis is the direct result of 28 years of rightwing Republican deregulation, corruption, and greed, which became fatally toxic under Bush-Cheney and the Republican Congress.
Congress must reject Paulson's Plunder
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