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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!
# 7,350:
1:32 pm PDT, Apr 9, Carson Drake, New York
# 7,349:
11:34 am PDT, Apr 9, Andre Holmes, New Mexico
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8:50 am PDT, Apr 9, Teresa McCormick, Washington
Why was back pay left out of wrongful termination of Federal Employee settlements. Error or Intention?
# 7,347:
3:51 am PDT, Apr 9, Vidya Sims, California
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7:22 pm PDT, Apr 8, James Daly, Wisconsin
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5:05 pm PDT, Apr 8, Debbie Andulics, Ohio
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3:05 pm PDT, Apr 8, Name not displayed, Oregon
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2:59 pm PDT, Apr 8, Brittany Melin, Florida
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1:59 pm PDT, Apr 8, Jesse Whitworth, Pennsylvania
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12:02 pm PDT, Apr 8, Jennifer Gillogly, Ohio
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10:28 am PDT, Apr 8, Kathy Britt, California
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8:59 am PDT, Apr 8, Johann Hollar, Minnesota
You piece of scum, HOW DARE YOU TAKE HIS SIDE OF THINGS!!!!!!. You have betrayed the working man. I hope you rot in the same pit in hell as "your" president, as well as your fellow Bush loving scum.
# 7,338:
7:24 am PDT, Apr 8, Barbara Bunton, Texas
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8:25 pm PDT, Apr 7, Andy Chako, Wyoming
# 7,336:
7:45 pm PDT, Apr 7, Janet Zink, Illinois
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7:41 pm PDT, Apr 7, Serena Overdevest, California
I care about America's workers because they contribute greatly to keeping America running and making corporations successful. I guess my question is who can American workers turn to for protection when you are working against them? Not only are you ignoring workers' rights and needs but you are in a sense working for the corporations. You are looking out for corporations and their best interests. Wake up and do your job protecting the American worker, which after all is what your title calls for and what American workers deserve.
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1:13 pm PDT, Apr 7, Name not displayed, Washington
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10:42 am PDT, Apr 7, E Lipson, California
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9:50 am PDT, Apr 7, Olivia Gillett, New York
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9:14 am PDT, Apr 7, Name not displayed, California
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8:34 am PDT, Apr 7, Nick Davis, Canada
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12:58 am PDT, Apr 7, Theresa A.Scarnuley, Connecticut
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12:12 am PDT, Apr 7, Robyn MacDonald, Australia
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7:45 pm PDT, Apr 6, Liesel Goshen, Colorado
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6:32 pm PDT, Apr 6, Fabiola De la Rosa, California
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2:45 pm PDT, Apr 6, Kathrina Gafycz, New York
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2:18 pm PDT, Apr 6, Kearna Hall, California
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2:09 pm PDT, Apr 6, Amy Lawless, North Carolina
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12:46 pm PDT, Apr 6, Kayleigh Riddell, United Kingdom
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8:23 am PDT, Apr 6, Name not displayed, New York
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6:58 am PDT, Apr 6, Svetlana Jovic-Bianchetti, Hawaii
# 7,319:
11:20 pm PDT, Apr 5, Diana White, Oregon
# 7,318:
10:35 pm PDT, Apr 5, Mike Weltman, Oregon
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9:18 pm PDT, Apr 5, Doreen Swartz, Florida
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9:03 pm PDT, Apr 5, Sarena Davis, Alabama
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8:05 pm PDT, Apr 5, Cindy LaComb, New York
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7:46 pm PDT, Apr 5, Lisa Buttrum, Tennessee
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7:39 pm PDT, Apr 5, Peggy Holmes, California
Workers need to be protected from corporations who care more about profit than workers.
# 7,312:
7:01 pm PDT, Apr 5, Valerie R. Malinosky, Washington
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6:07 pm PDT, Apr 5, Mary Rollins-Loomis, California
How do you imagine that Corporate America makes its money? Without workers there is no business. Your position is one of responsibility to the American worker and they are the taxpayers that pay your salary. Step up and do what you should!
# 7,310:
5:02 pm PDT, Apr 5, Mary Spicer, Kentucky
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1:12 pm PDT, Apr 5, Doosen Tachia, Texas
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12:22 pm PDT, Apr 5, Elisa DeLapa, New York
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11:06 am PDT, Apr 5, Ann Drechsler, Hawaii
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10:28 am PDT, Apr 5, Jim Dalton, Oregon
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10:23 am PDT, Apr 5, Janet Mevs, Connecticut
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8:54 am PDT, Apr 5, Harry Brownfield, Pennsylvania
America's workers are the backbone of our economy. The morons in the Bush Administration think that the rich and wealthy are the engine of all things good but they are fooling themselves. Those are the people who suck the lifeblood out of the economy - the blood pumped into the country each and every day by the people who get up each morning, swing their legs over the edge of the bed no matter how much their body aches and report to their job. And unfortunately, just the kind of people that Secretary Chao has used her time in power to put the screws to every chance she has had - all to enrich the corporate slime that is stealing this country blind. We are watching Secretary Chao and you will be held accountable.
# 7,303:
3:19 am PDT, Apr 5, Stacy Stiegleiter, Tennessee
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9:18 pm PDT, Apr 4, Rich Ranieri, Colorado
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8:51 pm PDT, Apr 4, Name not displayed, Iowa