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The new contract agreement from May 8, 2013 to May 11, 2016 is now posted in our "Members Only" page
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT - PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION
The following is a copy of an email sent to all our members, if you have not yet done so, please follow the link and sign the petition
Subject: FW: Obama's really bad idea
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 07:41:25 -0400
From: TGallagher@jibei.com
Pay attention our fight is going to start don’t be caught off guard.
Thomas Gallagher
Director of Pension & Retirement Services
Joint Industry Board of the Electrical Industry
158-11 Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Avenue
Flushing, New York 11365
(718) 591-2000 Ext.1281
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From: Damon Silvers, AFL-CIO <peoplepower@aflcio.org>
Sent: Sat, Apr 6, 2013 2:36 pm
Subject: Obama's really bad idea
Thomas,
From all reports I've seen, President Obama is going to propose a budget plan next week that is unprecedented for a Democratic president. It will propose a cut to Social Security benefits for seniors, veterans and people with disabilities.
It appears the proposed cut will take the form of "chained" CPI--a discredited way of calculating annual cost-of-living increases that does not keep up with actual costs, eating into benefits.
But there's more. The president's budget proposal also would require middle-class seniors--people who make $47,000 a year and more--to pay higher
Medicare premiums.
These cuts are bad policy. And the only way we're going to stop them is if President Obama and all members of Congress hear that we're not going to
tolerate them.
Sign our petition to the president NOW: [ http://act.aflcio.org/c/18/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=6117 ].
It is unconscionable to ask seniors, people with disabilities and veterans who are barely making it to be squeezed even tighter at a time when corporations and the wealthiest 2% are not paying their fair share of taxes, despite soaring profits.
It's bad policy to make cuts that will weaken our economic recovery.
And it's wrong, at a time of record income inequality and stagnant wages, to make the gap even worse by undercutting the retirement security of working- and middle-class Americans.
The majority of Americans oppose cuts to our country's most important familyprotection programs. It's time to make some noise about it.
We need to invest in America's working families, not pull the rug out from under them. That starts with repealing the sequester and making corporations and the richest 2% pay their fair share. And that should never, ever include cuts to benefits that millions of working families rely on.
Tell President Obama: No "chained" CPI and no cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or other cuts to Social Security benefits. Period.:
go.aflcio.org/No-Cuts-Obama [ http://act.aflcio.org/c/18/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=6117 ]
In Solidarity,
Damon Silvers
Director of Policy, AFL-CIO
*****
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Subject: FW: Obama's really bad idea
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 07:41:25 -0400
From: TGallagher@jibei.com
Pay attention our fight is going to start don’t be caught off guard.
Thomas Gallagher
Director of Pension & Retirement Services
Joint Industry Board of the Electrical Industry
158-11 Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Avenue
Flushing, New York 11365
(718) 591-2000 Ext.1281
------------------------
From: Damon Silvers, AFL-CIO <peoplepower@aflcio.org>
Sent: Sat, Apr 6, 2013 2:36 pm
Subject: Obama's really bad idea
Thomas,
From all reports I've seen, President Obama is going to propose a budget plan next week that is unprecedented for a Democratic president. It will propose a cut to Social Security benefits for seniors, veterans and people with disabilities.
It appears the proposed cut will take the form of "chained" CPI--a discredited way of calculating annual cost-of-living increases that does not keep up with actual costs, eating into benefits.
But there's more. The president's budget proposal also would require middle-class seniors--people who make $47,000 a year and more--to pay higher
Medicare premiums.
These cuts are bad policy. And the only way we're going to stop them is if President Obama and all members of Congress hear that we're not going to
tolerate them.
Sign our petition to the president NOW: [ http://act.aflcio.org/c/18/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=6117 ].
It is unconscionable to ask seniors, people with disabilities and veterans who are barely making it to be squeezed even tighter at a time when corporations and the wealthiest 2% are not paying their fair share of taxes, despite soaring profits.
It's bad policy to make cuts that will weaken our economic recovery.
And it's wrong, at a time of record income inequality and stagnant wages, to make the gap even worse by undercutting the retirement security of working- and middle-class Americans.
The majority of Americans oppose cuts to our country's most important familyprotection programs. It's time to make some noise about it.
We need to invest in America's working families, not pull the rug out from under them. That starts with repealing the sequester and making corporations and the richest 2% pay their fair share. And that should never, ever include cuts to benefits that millions of working families rely on.
Tell President Obama: No "chained" CPI and no cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or other cuts to Social Security benefits. Period.:
go.aflcio.org/No-Cuts-Obama [ http://act.aflcio.org/c/18/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=6117 ]
In Solidarity,
Damon Silvers
Director of Policy, AFL-CIO
*****
Visit us:
http://www.aflcio.org/
http://www.facebook.com/aflcio
http://twitter.com/#!/aflcio
Text WORK to AFLCIO (235246) to join our text action team. (Message and data rates may apply.)
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Meeting Place - Houligan's at 1643 U.S. Highway 1, Ormond Beach, FL - just Northwest of US 95, Exit 273
Tel (386) 671-2285
Meeting Time - 11:30 AM ~ 1:30 PM in the private room
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