I am furious. This morning we learned that the Department of Labor — which has proposed a dangerous new rule that would allow employers to pocket their employees’ tips — CONCEALED an analysis by its own staff that showed the proposal would cost workers billions of dollars. Instead of releasing the analysis to the public, according to a report by Bloomberg [1], the agency’s leadership instead hid the information and claimed it couldn’t estimate the full economic effects of transferring ownership of tips from the employees who earned them to their employers.
This cover-up shows that the rule was never meant to help working people.And women, who make up two-thirds of tipped workers, would lose the most. The Department of Labor must withdraw the rule now — not only because it would cost working women $4.6 billion a year, but because the integrity of the rule-making process has been compromised by the agency’s deception. Tell the Department of Labor it must withdraw the tip-stealing rule now.
As someone who fights for economic opportunity for women, I am disgusted by the Trump administration’s attempts to bury the truth just so it can empower employers to steal women’s wages. Please join me in telling the Department of Labor it won’t get away with it. Comments on this rule close in just a few days, so now is the moment to make our voices heard.
Thank you for fighting back with me!
Sincerely,
Julie Vogtman
Director of Job Quality and Senior Counsel
National Women’s Law Center
[1] https://bnanews.bna.com/daily-labor-report/labor-dept-ditches-data-on-worker-tips-retained-by-businesses
Puget Sound Energy’s long-term plan lacks the vision for a carbon-free future that Washington residents expect from our state’s largest utility
WHY THIS MATTERS
Puget Sound Energy’s (PSE) most recent long-term plan lacks the vision for a carbon-free future that Washington residents expect from our state’s largest utility.
The plan projects that Colstrip will continue to pump coal-fired electric onto PSE’s grid as late as 2035! This flies in the face of trends in the energy industry, where coal plants are being forced to retire years ahead of schedule due to competition from cheaper and cleaner alternatives.
PSE’s long-term plan also calls for new fracked gas plants, locking Washington into fossil fuels for at least another 30 years. Equally alarming, PSE is moving swiftly to build an eight million gallon liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Tacoma despite strong local opposition from the Puyallup Tribe and beyond.
And they’ll be passing the cost of this reckless fossil fuel investment onto you and the rest of their customers.
TAKE ACTION! Call on regulators to reject any plan that does not include a commitment to get off coal-fired electricity from the Colstrip coal plant by 2025 and explicitly reject new fossil fuel infrastructure, including LNG.
#StopCCR
Friends:
we’re preparing to stop the “Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017” — a dangerous gun bill that would gut state gun laws — on the Senate floor this year, and you will lead the way.
Last year, when we set out to inundate Members of the House of Representatives with postcards from their constituents, you and other gun sense champions answered the call, and hundreds and thousands of people across the country signed them. Then, Moms Demand Action volunteers and supporters hand delivered thousands of these postcards to lawmakers offices to make sure your voice was heard, and it made a difference. After the gun-lobby hijacked a modest gun safety bill, the House only narrowly passed the “Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017.”
We can stop this bill in its tracks in the Senate and make sure it doesn’t get to President Trump’s desk. That’s why we need your powerful voice once more: Sign a postcard urging your senators to OPPOSE the “Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017.”
It’s important for us to remind all Senators, even our closest allies, where their constituents stand.
The “Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017” is waiting for a vote on the Senate floor, and because of you, senators are already committing to vote NO on this dangerous bill. NRA leadership knows that their time is running out to pass this bill.And they also know that with YOUR help, we’ve loosened their chokehold on state legislatures in all 50 states, helped to enact gun safety laws, and defeated their deadly proposals that would gut our existing common sense laws. They’re afraid of your power and your voice.
That’s why we need you to use that voice now. Send a postcard to your senators: Tell them to OPPOSE the “Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017.”
Thank you for lending us your strength in the fight to end gun violence.
Everytown for Gun Safety
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