It's not over yet!
We've still got one chance to save overtime pay!
If all you want for Christmas is a pay cut, then you're in luck: if you lose the right to overtime pay, you'll have to work more hours at no extra pay. If that's NOT what you want, then get on the phone now.
The labor movement's campaign to collect more than 100,000 signatures in four days on a petition urging the Bush administration to withdraw its proposed overtime-pay take-away has been successful: not only have the signatures been gathered, but the House of Representatives, which (along with the Senate) already voted to protect overtime earlier this year (even though that amendment didn't make it to the final bill), will vote again on Monday -- its final session of the year -- on the appropriations bill to which both Houses of Congress attached the overtime protection amendment. Because of the ruckus we've raised, supporters of the measure will make one last effort to put it back into the bill.
Now it's up to us.
Call your Congressional representative by Monday morning at the latest. And tell that representative something along these lines:
"Please vote against the omnibus funding bill if it doesn't include overtime pay protections. No worker should lose the right to overtime pay. This is one of the issues I will use to judge your commitment to working people."
And thank that representative for working overtime to save overtime pay.
(Speaking of the labor movement, regular readers may notice that the Amazon.com links on this page have been temporarily discontinued, in solidarity with striking workers at Borders Books in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The workers have been trying to form a union since 1996. The labor movement is supporting the workers with a boycott of Borders, Waldenbooks, and Amazon.com.)
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @4:22 PM
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