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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!

# 7,250:

2:01 pm PDT, Apr 1, Rich Heppner, Illinois
I grew up the son of a very hard working union bricklayer,local #3 Peoria, Illinois. I realized at a very young age that the majority of Amerians are very hard working people. If the Secretary of Labor is not for us, she is against us. Get on the working mans team or get out!

# 7,249:

1:39 pm PDT, Apr 1, John Donaldson,ll, West Virginia

# 7,248:

11:47 am PDT, Apr 1, Judith Valente, Indiana
Because history will repeat itself if we don't learn from it. It always does. LEARN FROM IT!!!!!!!

# 7,247:

11:11 am PDT, Apr 1, Kristina Frazier-henry, Indiana

# 7,246:

11:11 am PDT, Apr 1, Amber Wirkner, Ohio
I am one of America's workers!

# 7,245:

11:04 am PDT, Apr 1, Dorothy Dale, Washington

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11:03 am PDT, Apr 1, Sofia Pavlova, California

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10:40 am PDT, Apr 1, Name not displayed, California

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10:39 am PDT, Apr 1, Sabrina Poblete, California

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10:24 am PDT, Apr 1, Kim Farris, South Carolina

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10:08 am PDT, Apr 1, Tami Reynolds, South Carolina

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9:49 am PDT, Apr 1, Nicole Queen, Massachusetts

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9:36 am PDT, Apr 1, Joan Levitt, Rhode Island

# 7,237:

9:06 am PDT, Apr 1, Christie Allen, Ohio

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8:38 am PDT, Apr 1, Crystal Krogulski, Illinois

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8:05 am PDT, Apr 1, Chris Chambliss, Wisconsin

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7:48 am PDT, Apr 1, Orin Macquarrie, California

# 7,233:

6:56 am PDT, Apr 1, Debbie Butz, Illinois

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6:36 am PDT, Apr 1, Marcus Mosbacker, Texas

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6:28 am PDT, Apr 1, Name not displayed, Missouri

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5:51 am PDT, Apr 1, Paula Crist, Missouri

# 7,229:

3:52 am PDT, Apr 1, Andrew Strauss, Oregon

# 7,228:

2:27 am PDT, Apr 1, Toni Sokoloski, Massachusetts

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1:47 am PDT, Apr 1, Jennifer Luke, Nevada

# 7,226:

1:45 am PDT, Apr 1, Christopher Luke, Nevada

# 7,225:

1:44 am PDT, Apr 1, Carolynn Rueda, Nevada
My son-in-law is a Union Carpenter and his pay-check lets my daughter have the medical help she wouldn't and couldn't have any other way.Before I met him I never thought about the people who build these amazing buildings or do any number of things to build and continue growing this Country. My suggestion-Let the "Managers" or "VP's" try to do the work they "count" on their workers to do for just one day!! Most of them have never worked from the entry level so they have no idea what "their" workforce really does!! Or even worse, they HAVE done those jobs, they have just "forgotten" that phase of their "humble beginnings"!!

# 7,224:

12:02 am PDT, Apr 1, Cris Colombi, Argentina

# 7,223:

11:53 pm PDT, Mar 31, Shelley Chretin, California

# 7,222:

9:41 pm PDT, Mar 31, ARTHUR AYALA, California

# 7,221:

9:34 pm PDT, Mar 31, Linda Ceder, Maryland
I need you to look at your family background. Were your parents, grandparents, their parents, all rich, or were they hard workers, struggling to get a kind of life like yours? Are you not a hardworker, that you can't understand the importance for our safety, respect, and rights to deserved promotions and benefits, should be allowed in our workplaces?! You've caused alot of damage, now it is time to repair it. Thank you for your understanding and immediate response to make the worker's environment a better place.

# 7,220:

9:12 pm PDT, Mar 31, Dana Crane, Maine

# 7,219:

7:04 pm PDT, Mar 31, Ruchira Shah, California

# 7,218:

5:50 pm PDT, Mar 31, Jacqueline Paduano, New York

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5:39 pm PDT, Mar 31, Teresa Strong, Massachusetts

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5:23 pm PDT, Mar 31, Bridget Ben-Hayon, Florida

# 7,215:

4:53 pm PDT, Mar 31, Jon P Gleason, Ohio

# 7,214:

4:33 pm PDT, Mar 31, Joyce Dumler, Arizona
Let's not forget, Madame Secretary, what this country started from; hard work!!! The worker is the platform! Don't shut US out!!

# 7,213:

3:37 pm PDT, Mar 31, Stacey Walton, Washington

# 7,211:

2:49 pm PDT, Mar 31, C Sherwood, United Kingdom

# 7,210:

2:30 pm PDT, Mar 31, Janet Vienneau, Maine
None of us are perfect, but we are accountable for our actions. I am for the rights of the working class. If the Secretary of Labor is not protecting the the rights of America's workers, I feel that person needs to change or be removed from that position of responsibility.

# 7,209:

2:00 pm PDT, Mar 31, Sharon Selick, Georgia

# 7,208:

1:05 pm PDT, Mar 31, Summer Noyes, California

# 7,207:

12:29 pm PDT, Mar 31, Alfonso Ramirez, California
American workers are the backbone of this country not the small number of rich and opulent Americans which you and the Bush Administration support.

# 7,206:

12:28 pm PDT, Mar 31, Fred Lavy, Virginia
Why not repent and resign now?

# 7,205:

12:28 pm PDT, Mar 31, Billy Frolov, Virginia

# 7,204:

12:08 pm PDT, Mar 31, MORAIMA VELEZ, Virginia

# 7,203:

11:36 am PDT, Mar 31, Todd Wilson, Illinois

# 7,202:

11:18 am PDT, Mar 31, Ikey Galacticca, New York
Secretary Elaine Chao I urge you to reconsider and revise the horrible damage to workers' rights that you have allegedly did by gutting safety regulations, promoting a big business agenda and undermining workers and their unions at every turn. Thank you. wppm.org

# 7,201:

11:14 am PDT, Mar 31, Johnny Wilson, Louisiana

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