The AWEsome Slideshow

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AMERICAN WORKERS deserve a champion

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AMERICAN WORKERS

deserve a champion

to fight for USin the halls

of power

as hard as the AARPfights for RETIREES

as hard asthe NRA

fights for GUNOWNERS

as hard as the U.S. CHAMBEROF COMMERCE

fights forBIG BUSINESS

as hard asTENS OF THOUSANDS

of OTHER ASSOCIATIONSfight for their members

Appallingly, many ofthe LARGEST &MOST INFLUENTIALmember organizations today

SPEND MILLIONS ANNUALLY

TO VIGOROUSLYOPPOSE

American workers'best interests

U.S. Chamberof Commerce National

Restaurant Association

National Associationof Manufacturers

National Federationof Independent Business

AmericanLegislative

Exchange Council(ALEC)

INCLUDING:

HigherMinimum

WagesPaid

Sick Days

Unions

FIGHTINGAGAINST:

CollectiveBargaining

Pay Transparency

Environmental &Safety Regulations

FairOvertime Pay

What happens whenworkers don't have a

champion onTHEIR side?

INCOME STAGNATION.PRECARIOUS "GIGS" INSTEADOF STRONG JOBS."TEMPS" WORKING FOR YEARS.WORKERS FIRED, THEN REHIRED AT LESS PAY.EMPLOYERS SHIFTING COSTS TO WORKERS.

WEAKENED UNIONS.RAMPANT INSECURITY.

"RIGHT TO WORK (FOR LESS)" LAWS.FEAR OF TAKING EARNED TIME OFF.

SHAMEFULLY INADEQUATECHILDCARE OPTIONS.

GENDER PAY GAPS.BIASED HIRING PRACTICES.

CITIES STARVED OF REVENUE.

FAILING INFRASTRUCTURE.COMMUNITIES IN DECLINE.

UNPREDICTABLE SCHEDULES THAT HURT FAMILIES.

LAYOFF SURVIVORS GIVEN IMPOSSIBLE WORKLOADS.

POVERTY WAGES FOR HONEST WORK.

MISCLASSIFIED WORKERS DENIED FAIR PAY & BENEFITS.

AN IMPENDING RETIREMENT CRISIS.

SOCIAL IMMOBILITY.DIVISIVENESS AND RANCOR.

CORPORATE DOMINANCE OF GOVERNMENT.

DEATH OF THE AMERICAN DREAM.

PLUTOCRACY.AN OUT-OF-CONTROL FINANCIAL INDUSTRY.

AN ECONOMY THAT PUTS THE NEEDS OF THE AVERAGEWORKING AMERICAN DEAD LAST.

We can’t let anti‐worker special interestgroups continue, UNOPPOSED, to drivepolicy decisions that affect our lives.

It has to stop.

AFTER ALL, WE OUTNUMBER THEM. 

The majority ofAmericans WORKfor WAGES.It's time forpolicymakers to put US first...

NOT the MINORITY who live offcorporate dividends, interest

earnings, capital gains & trust funds.

Working Americansneed a powerful

advocate at the table

REPRESENTINGALL WORKERS& ADVANCING

OUR INTERESTS.

Here's what a massivemembership associationof wage‐earners can do:

UNITE all workers, regardless of industry orstatus, to pursue our MUTUAL well‐being

BLUE COLLARWHITE COLLARHOURLY

FACTORYFULL TIMEPART TIME

SALARIEDUNIONOFFICE

PROFESSIONALSERVICE SECTORNONPROFIT

PROFESSIONALSERVICE SECTORNONPROFIT

CONNECT us across the DIVISIONS that distractus from fighting together for our common goals

RACEGENDERAGE

POLITICSABILITY

RELIGIONEDUCATION

CLASSETHNICITY

ORIENTATION

DEMAND consideration of workers'needs in policy decisions

TOGETHER, we canCOMPEL long‐overdue progress onworker rights

DISRUPT the business‐as‐usualdealmaking in D.C. that puts workers'interests last 

COUNTER anti‐worker lobbyists who fightworker gains

FIX glaring deficiencies in U.S. workforcebenefits, compared to otherdeveloped nations

REVIVE worker prideand dignity

END corporate dominanceof our economyBUILD shared prosperitySTRENGTHEN families andcommunities

AND PERHAPS EVEN

SAVE DEMOCRACY

If we build this organization,we'll form a potentially enormousvoting bloc, representingone of the largestspecial interestgroups in America.

WHAT'S ATSTAKE? 

Only the well‐being,security, health, wealth and futureHOPES & DREAMSof most U.S. families.

It's a huge, daunting,challenging AND

desperately neededundertaking

That's why we're calling onprogressive investors,

social entrepreneurs and worker advocacy organizations

to PLEASE INVEST &COLLABORATE

in the creation of... 

AMERICAN WAGE EARNERS

Learn More HERE

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