Long story short: tell New York City's mayor to stop forcing city employees onto Medicare Advantage, tell our Department of Labor to institute its proposed heat standard, and tell our government to reject Postal Service privatization. Use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs to communicate your will.
Be a Hero helps you tell New York City Mayor Eric Adams to stop forcing city employee retirees to use Medicare Advantage instead of traditional Medicare. Because the only advantage to Medicare "Advantage" is that private health insurance executives make more money while denying more care – and, of course, siphoning off taxpayer funds that could have gone to traditional Medicare! Remember when they said Eric Adams was the future of the Democratic party? Well, this marks him as the same-old same-old. So let's fight him, and protect folks who paid into Medicare all their lives and deserve the best Medicare they can get.
More Perfect Union helps you tell our Department of Labor to implement its heat standard rule now. Why now, as fall is upon us? Because the next President might be a whiny, traitorous asshole who will shit all over this rule, just to please bosses who think being cruel to their workers is their "right"! Also too, in some parts of the country (i.e., the South), it's still pretty hot, and Southern workers could use all the help they can get. If you hear anyone say this rule will mainly help illegal immigrants, back away from them, slowly, and maybe stop talking to them. Even if that were true, which it’s not, no living being deserves to die of overwork and heatstroke. As civilized people, we should do better.
Finally, Americans for Financial Reform helps you tell our government to reject any effort to privatize our Postal Service. Postmaster General DeJoy, who really needs to be fired and replaced with someone not-evil, has lately said, after he cut services, raised prices, and slashed jobs, that our Postal Service is in a "death spiral"! That is, of course, the nature of power in these times – take over something that works, fuck it all up with your incompetence and greed, and then position yourself as the "only person who can fix these problems." Come to think of it, I've just described the entire George W. Bush Administration. Want to be done with all of that stupidity? Then we've got to get to work.
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