Long story short: tell Marathon to bargain with striking workers, tell the New York Times to stop "sanewashing" Trump coverage, and tell our Department of Labor to enact a vigorous heat standard for workers. Use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs to communicate your will.
More Perfect Union helps you tell oil refinery corporation Marathon Petroleum to bargain with striking workers. Whose contract ran out nine months ago, and who were working without a contract until it became obvious management wouldn't talk to them. Marathon made almost $10 billion in profits last year, and has indulged in $35 billion in stock buybacks just over the last three years, but can't break off any of that for the good folks who make their wealth possible – though they can pay scabs twice the going rate! Need I mention that oil refining is actually difficult work requiring workers of some experience and skill? I guess Marathon will find that out, but if they’d just deal fairly with their workers, they wouldn't have to.
Civic Shout helps you tell the New York Times, one of our "papers of record," to stop "sanewashing" their coverage of Donald Trump. Are they simply numb to the onslaught of obnoxious behavior from Mr. Trump or do they want to pretend this should be a race? It matters not, because civilized people treat assholes like, well, assholes; we don't just hand out respect to Presidential candidates (or Presidents!) unless they earn it. I mean, this is America, dammit! And our "liberal" media have called his claims the 2020 election was stolen from him the "Big Lie," so I must presume they are capable of calling out Mr. Trump's obnoxious behavior. Now all they need to do is start doing it.
Finally, More Perfect Union also helps you tell our Department of Labor to enact its heat standard for workers. Broadly, this standard would require bosses to make sure their workers don't die of heatstroke; more precisely, it would ensure workers have enough shade, breaks, and water, particularly since a lot of farmworkers don’t get the kinds of protections other workers get under the National Labor Relations Act. I suppose right-wingers will challenge the standard by saying that Congress expressed its intent by excluding farmworkers from that bill, thus making the DOL's standard "unconstitutional." But why would anyone want to put that kind of work before the Lord on Judgment Day? Defending the powerful sure ties a mind in knots!
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