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Johnson Votes With Labor On Overtime |
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03 Oct 2003
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Tim Johnson opposed the Republican leadership and voted to protect overtime pay for millions of workers. |
Tim Johnson responded to your calls! He voted with the AFL-CIO on the overtime bill.
http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2003&rollnumber=531
You can call him and thank him for his vote. 217-403-4690
Oct. 2, 2003
People power beat corporate power today when the U.S. House of Representatives voted 221-203 to oppose the Bush administration's overtime pay take-away. We won because hundreds of thousands of people spoke out. Since Bush announced his overtime pay attack, people like you have sent more than 1 million letters, faxes and e-mails opposing the overtime pay take-away.
Today, AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney called on President Bush to "withdraw his assault on overtime and withdraw his threat to veto any legislation that protects overtime."
You can do the same thing. Please take one minute right now to SEND A MESSAGE to President Bush by clicking on the link below. Tell him to surrender! http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/bushcutsot/bsu2f5mdm
After you send your message to President Bush, please SPREAD THE WORD by forwarding this e-mail to friends, family and co-workers who might be interested. If we each reach out to at least 10 other people, we can make a big difference.
Or, click on the link below to tell your friends, family and co-workers. http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/bushcutsot/forward/bsu2f5mdm
The Bush overtime pay take-away is also getting more scrutiny by the media. An editorial in "The Washington Post" this week called on the House to "vote to block" the overtime take-away, saying, "The [Bush] administration proposal tilts too far in the direction of employers." You already knew that, but as more people learn about the big changes in their work life that are coming if President Bush gets his way, our collective strength to beat back the Bush overtime pay attack grows.
Please send your message to President Bush now. http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/bushcutsot/bsu2f5mdm
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How U.S. Representatives voted today.
http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/fp1N1wF1fd1D/
AFL-CIO website news story
http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/v71N1wF1fd1V/
Statement by AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney
http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/vd1N1wF1fd1Z/
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Don't Be Fooled |
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05 Oct 2003
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While Tim Johnson occasionally throws a distracting bone to labor, this vote should be seen in the context of another vote this week. He voted in favor of criminalizing the mis-named procedure "partial birth" abortion, an attack on women's right to choose that endangers already existing life in favor of ideological extremism.
Looking at the whole package that is Tim Johnson, it is best to remember that he is, when all is said and done, beholden to corporate and conservative extremism. An upcoming vote on energy policy, which is looking more and more like another giveaway to big business as it is crafted behind closed doors by a secretive Republican leadership, will be telling. The bill will subsidize a massive expansion of nuclear power, including greasing the skids for another reactor at Clinton, upwind from Champaign County. Johnson is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the largess of the nuclear industry. Wanna bet which way he'll vote on that one, endangering our community for decades to come with economically inefficient and potentially lethal nuclear power? Let's hope that if there's ever an accident, he'll be in town to breath in the deadly isotopes with the rest of us. |
