I’m not sure how many of you have been watching what is
happening in
Washington
DC
but…… There are several
Advocacy Campaigns on the AFL-CIO Working Families web site.
A few examples are petitions that you can sign and have your signed
petition e-mailed to your President and individual Senators and Congress Person
with a click of your mouse. This is
an excellent way of letting our Politicians know that we are keeping an eye on
what is going on. They may not know
every name of everyone that e-mailed the petition to their in-box but they do
know the total number of how
responses they received on a particular issue. A
few examples of the types of petitions that are out there are:
Ω Not
Privatizing our Social Security
Ω CAFTA-Continue
the Fight
Ω Thank
Your Representative for Co-sponsoring the Employee Free Choice Act
Ω Support
the Health Care Accountability Act of 2005
Ω A
petition telling your President and your Representative and Senator to restore
the Davis-Bacon Act. This act
removes the requirement of a prevailing wage in your job class for those workers
in the hurricane damaged part of our country.
Your 965 Legislative Committee members meet with other IBEW
Legislative Committee members on the first Tuesday of every month at
9am
at the
Labor
Temple
. Your 965 Legislative Committee
members also meet on the third Tuesday of every month at
5:30pm
at the
Labor
Temple
with IBEW Local 159. You are all
welcome to attend any of these meetings. We
have guest speakers and once in a while a Representative.
We also attend conferences to hear a variety of ideas and ways to help
working people in
America
. We are all in this fight together,
Union
and non-Union.
With Hope and Solidarity-Dorothy
