This is your toolkit for taking action to make America work for working families. The more you do, the more powerful your voice will be in winning good jobs, quality health care for all, retirement security and other top working family priorities.
Some 57 million workers would join a union if they could. However, as Human Rights Watch has documented, employers routinely harass, coerce, intimidate and stall to block workers' freedom to choose union representation. In fact, every 23 minutes a worker is fired or penalized for supporting a union.
Sign our petition supporting a workers' right to choose.
For too long, Wall Street firms, banks, credit card companies, insurers and mortgage companies were allowed to have their way, with no government oversight. Now taxpayers are picking up the tab for the risks taken on Wall Street.
Congress needs to hear from us that enough is enough. Tell lawmakers to pass legislation demanding that Wall Street stops lying about the risky investments and stealing by covering up fraud, and ensuring the pensions of working families are protected. Wall Street must play by the rules.
Congress needs to hear from us that enough is enough.
America is going the wrong way, and most people are feeling it. There is something wrong when almost everybody who is not a multimillionaire thinks the only things their children will inherit are a mess of problems and debts. Sign our petition in support of the 5 point plan to turn around the economy.
Help us build our strength -- tell your friends to join Working America.