Dear Friend,
President Bush is about to finalize changes in the laws governing overtime pay that could take away overtime protections from at least 8 million people. His changes will cut paychecks for families, erode the 40-hour workweek and encourage employers to require more overtime work. The changes include a new "military penalty" that would allow employers to use military training as the basis for cutting overtime pay. Please sign the online petition opposing President Bush's overtime pay take-away by clicking on the link below.
http://www.saveovertimepay.org/
We all need to get involved before these important workplace protections are hurt. Thank you so much.
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Last month, President Bush's Secretary of Education, Rod Paige, called America's largest teachers' union a "terrorist organization." Why? Because the union had the gall to insist that President Bush live up to his own promises to adequately fund education. Please sign our petition demanding that President Bush fire Secretary Paige.
http://www.FirePaige.org/index.asp?ms=1
This is typical behavior for the Bush administration. It says one thing - "no child left behind" and does another - under-funding its promises to our schools by $9.4 billion in its latest budget proposal. And when people dare to disagree with its policies, it questions their patriotism or labels them terrorists. Secretary Paige uses insult to defend the indefensible. Not only did the president break his promise to fund the reforms, his current budget calls for cuts in support for schools over the next five years. And he still wants to take billions from public schools to pay for private school vouchers. So Paige resorts to slurs: even in his supposed apology, he dismissed teachers' growing concerns as "obstructionist scare tactics."
We teach our kids that name calling is not the right way to win an argument - in fact, it’s usually a sign that you don't have the facts on your side. Making our schools better is a tough job. We need a Secretary of Education who sees teachers and their representatives as partners in this effort rather than as enemies. Join us in calling on President Bush to find a better person for the job.
http:// www.FirePaige.org/index.asp?ms=1
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (EDITORIAL): "Bruno Hurts Poor"
Could you live on $10,700 a year? (In New York, we mean, not in a shack in Mississippi, subsisting on catfish and beans.) It's difficult even to entertain the idea of being several thousand dollars below the poverty level, but for nearly 700,000 New Yorkers, it's a fact of their lives, which will not improve unless state Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno has a change of heart. Bruno holds the power to help those folks because the Legislature is once again considering boosting New York's minimum wage. Some of his troops are more right-thinking. Nine are co-sponsoring a bill by Sen. Guy Velella that would raise the wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.10 by Jan. 1, 2006, essentially matching the Assembly's proposal. But that matters not very much. In the Senate, it's Bruno's will that will be done. And Bruno is not very sympathetic to the plight of the working poor. He will deny that, saying that he, indeed, favors a higher minimum wage - as long as the decision comes from the federal government. Which hasn't increased the minimum one cent since 1997. This is known as passing the buck. Thing is, Joe, no one's buying the act anymore. Full story at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/03-07-2004/news/ideas_opinions/story/170973p-149230c.html
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