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For years, tension between American workers and exploitative corporations has been simmering – and now, it’s boiling over. Across the country, workers are rising up to tell their employers that “enough is enough” by demanding safe working conditions, decent benefits, and livable wages. This year alone, workers have walked off the job and picketed against 178 employers.
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Our Civic Action team told you about Frito-Lay workers striking to abolish 84-hour work weeks and Nabisco workers fighting to end 16-hour work days in sweltering heat. In both of these cases, workers won marginally better wages and working conditions. It’s nowhere near the drastic improvements that we need to see – but it’s a start.
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Plus, these successful strikes at Frito-Lay and Nabisco inspired a wave of workers in industries across the country to fight for humane working conditions: Last month, 10,000 John Deere workers went on strike, 31,000 Kaiser Permanente employees participated in walkouts, 60,000 union film workers threatened the biggest Hollywood walkout since World War II, and the list goes on. Strikes were so prevalent last month that we’re now fondly calling October “Striketober.”
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“Striketober” may be over, but this movement is far from finished. We need your help to hold the line, keep the pressure on exploitative companies, and win better conditions for workers. Add your name now to support striking workers:
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The truth is, unionizing and demanding fair pay only makes the economy stronger – despite what trickle-downers may want you to believe. In fact, study after study has proven that the middle class is at its strongest when unions are at their strongest. According to a recent EPI study, unions raise wages for all employees, help workers earn better benefits and decrease income inequality for women and people of color. No wonder trickle-downers are against unions: Unions build the economy from the middle out instead of letting the richest Americans hoard wealth at the top.
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Between Striketober and the Great Resignation, we’re living through a historic movement for workers’ rights in our country. The fact is, American workers are FED UP:
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- Employees are TIRED of corporate executives who lie about not being able to afford pay raises while they pad their own wallets with huge profits.
- Workers are DONE with inhumane hours so long that their peers call them “suicide shifts.”
- Workers are TURNING THEIR BACKS on employers who couldn’t care less if workers that spend decades at their factories can make ends meet.
- And, laborers REFUSE to put their lives on the line in unsafe working conditions while making the federal minimum wage of only $7.25 an hour.
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The best part of this movement is that the American people are on board. Over the last few months, supporters have staged boycotts to support strikers. Consumer consciousness is growing, and if we keep up the pressure, these companies will realize they have no option but to improve working conditions. We’re going to need all hands on deck to win this fight, so we have to ask: Will you stand with workers, John?
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Sign our petition now to tell striking workers that you support them!
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Thanks for defending American workers.
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Team Civic Action
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