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Had Enough of Workers' Rights Violations? Demand Better From the Secretary of Labor!

Target: Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor
Sponsored by: American Rights at Work
President Bush has appointed some real scoundrels over the years, but Elaine Chao has to be one of the worst.

Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao has done horrible damage to workers' rights by gutting safety regulations, promoting a big business agenda and undermining workers and their unions at every turn.

The policies she could try to push through as she leaves would take years to undo. But if she thinks no one is watching in her last months in office, she's wrong.

Let Elaine Chao know you're one of thousands of Americans holding her accountable!

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 10,000
 

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Dear Secretary Chao,

I'm outraged to learn about your record of gutting safety regulations, promoting a big business agenda, and undermining workers and their unions. It should be your duty to protect the interests of hardworking people like me, not those of corporate America, but that has clearly not been the top priority of the Department of Labor under your leadership.

As a person who cares about workers' rights and the misguided direction of our country, I will be paying attention to the policies and practices of the Department of Labor during the remainder of your time in office. In particular, I am deeply concerned about your demonstrated record of slashing safety and health regulations, ignoring the economic needs of the workforce, botching mine investigations, and advocating against workers' rights. These dangerous and misguided practices must stop.

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It is time to restore the Department of Labor as an agency run on behalf of America's workers.

Please do what's right for hardworking men and women in our country.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
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We signed the “Had Enough of Workers' Rights Violations? Demand Better From the Secretary of Labor!” petition!
# 49:
4:26 pm PDT, Mar 13, Brent Bartholomew, California
we all want a liveding wage, like DR. RON PAUL,STATED WHEN HE REFUSED TO ACCEPT A RAISE IN CONGRESS TILL EVERY AMERACAN GET A LIVEING WAGE. HE STILL GIVES THE$$$ BACK TO THE TRESURY,EVEDRY MONTH. SO HE IS THE ONLY ONE I KNOW IN CONGRESS THAT5 CARES FOR US NOT THE OIL COMPANYS THAT KEEP US AS SLAVES TO THEM. VOTE EVERYONE THAT VOTED WAR OUT OF CONGRESS. THEN WE WILL GET A LIVEING WAGE.
# 48:
4:22 pm PDT, Mar 13, Colleen Keith, California
# 47:
4:19 pm PDT, Mar 13, Franziska Eber, Germany
# 46:
4:05 pm PDT, Mar 13, David Reymond, Texas
# 45:
4:05 pm PDT, Mar 13, Charles Hixon, Hawaii
Shame!!!
# 44:
3:44 pm PDT, Mar 13, Thomas Pirovano, Switzerland
Hopp!
# 43:
3:35 pm PDT, Mar 13, David Dunkleberger, Pennsylvania
# 42:
3:30 pm PDT, Mar 13, Teresa Mac Tavish, Canada
# 41:
3:06 pm PDT, Mar 13, Shelly Rickel, California
# 40:
2:55 pm PDT, Mar 13, Lorena Drajneanu, Romania
# 39:
2:51 pm PDT, Mar 13, Brian Reynolds, New Jersey
# 38:
2:35 pm PDT, Mar 13, Name not displayed, North Carolina
# 37:
2:32 pm PDT, Mar 13, Sharon McIntosh, Michigan
# 36:
2:09 pm PDT, Mar 13, Niki Lahtinen, Finland
# 35:
1:46 pm PDT, Mar 13, Name not displayed, Texas
# 34:
1:20 pm PDT, Mar 13, Vanessa Hutcheson, Texas
Your treatment of workers is deplorable!
# 33:
1:16 pm PDT, Mar 13, Name not displayed, California
# 32:
1:11 pm PDT, Mar 13, Dick Artley, Idaho
Bush/Cheney are the bottom of the barrel. They should know how to scrape the same for people to lead administrative agencies.
# 31:
1:09 pm PDT, Mar 13, Dawee Van, Michigan
# 30:
1:04 pm PDT, Mar 13, John Kesich, Pennsylvania
May you and yours enjoy the same conditions you have inflicted on American workers.
# 29:
12:48 pm PDT, Mar 13, Jessica Brown, Pennsylvania
# 28:
12:41 pm PDT, Mar 13, Name not displayed, Minnesota
# 27:
12:29 pm PDT, Mar 13, Kimberlee Thorne, California
This is 2008! The working regulations and laws should be getting better, not worse. It is so hard to support a family these days on the wages of today. We need a change!
# 26:
12:28 pm PDT, Mar 13, Jenna Templeton, California
# 25:
12:27 pm PDT, Mar 13, Fairy Butterfly, Mauritius
# 24:
12:19 pm PDT, Mar 13, Pam Boland, Georgia
# 23:
12:19 pm PDT, Mar 13, Shiu M. Hung, California
# 22:
12:18 pm PDT, Mar 13, Betty Van Wicklen, New York
Once upon a time, America had a favorable trade balance, a solid currency and the safest and most highly trained workforce in the world. Sadly none of the above is true any longer. We've wrecked our economy with a war which cannot be won, ruined our balance of trade with treaties which allow American manufacturers to outsource the manufacture of goods to countries without safety and labor regulations - so the labor would be cheaper (P.S., so are the goods - and that NOT in a good way). At home, our labor laws are not defended and provisions and safety measures fought for over decades are being whittled away and not supported by our government. Our dollar has never been weaker and we have outsourced even some of our military contracts! We are no longer a world leader and we have the current administration to blame for greasing the wheels to oblivion.
# 21:
12:13 pm PDT, Mar 13, Ginger Geronimo, Alabama
# 20:
11:58 am PDT, Mar 13, Deborah G Crowchild, Vermont
# 19:
11:57 am PDT, Mar 13, Valerie L lurie, New Hampshire
# 18:
11:46 am PDT, Mar 13, BiLL Fowlie, Maine
# 17:
11:36 am PDT, Mar 13, Erika Parker, California
# 16:
11:26 am PDT, Mar 13, Martha Leahy, Massachusetts
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11:24 am PDT, Mar 13, Dogan Ozkan, Turkey
# 14:
11:22 am PDT, Mar 13, April Peterson, Illinois
# 13:
11:19 am PDT, Mar 13, Erno Buzas, Romania
# 12:
11:18 am PDT, Mar 13, Charles Mclachlan, United Kingdom
# 11:
11:13 am PDT, Mar 13, John Geiser, Michigan
# 10:
11:11 am PDT, Mar 13, Patrick Slater, Canada
# 9:
11:09 am PDT, Mar 13, Jamie Carignan, Connecticut
# 8:
11:05 am PDT, Mar 13, Terri VanKuipers, Canada
# 7:
11:02 am PDT, Mar 13, Ralf Schuetz, Colorado
# 6:
10:38 am PDT, Mar 13, ALPHA WI, Germany
# 5:
10:35 am PDT, Mar 13, Jimmy Walz, Wisconsin
# 4:
10:32 am PDT, Mar 13, Rajashekhar Chava, Pennsylvania
# 3:
10:15 am PDT, Mar 13, Felicita Luna, New York
# 2:
7:06 am PDT, Mar 13, Daniel Amon, South Carolina
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2:05 pm PDT, Mar 11, Name not displayed, California