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PETITION- Gov Christie: Don't stiff Newark Airport workers
http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/1306/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9197
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Gov Christie: Don't stiff Newark Airport workers
My name is Demetrius DeBaise, and for the last five years I have worked as a baggage handler at Newark International. Every day I lift overweight bags for hours on end for just $8.25 an hour. The stress of trying to provide for my family on so little income has nearly broken me.
And now, Governor Chris Christie and his cronies in the Port Authority just blocked my raise.
This week the director of the NY/NJ Port Authority ordered raises for low-wage workers like me at JFK and LaGuardia airports. But Newark workers were left out. The reason? Chris Christie and his top person at the Port Authority refused to go along.
Christies cronies at the Port Authority punished an entire town by closing down bridge lanes. Now they are bullying me and my co-workers to protect the profits of major airlines.
Punishing working people while protecting the powerful is classic Chris Christie. This isnt even the first time Governor Christie has tried to stop me from getting a raise. Last year he actually vetoed a minimum wage increase for New Jersey workers.
We want a wage that lets us pay the bills and support our families, and its not fair that we may be denied the raise other workers over the Hudson will get just because were unlucky enough to have Chris Christie as our Governor.
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Gov Christie: Don't stiff Newark Airport workers
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Stop blocking a raise for low wage Newark International airport workers. The Port Authority gave workers at JFK and LaGuardia a raise -- Newark workers deserve the same.
My name is Demetrius DeBaise, and for the last five years I have worked as a baggage handler at Newark International. Every day I lift overweight bags for hours on end for just $8.25 an hour. The stress of trying to provide for my family on so little income has nearly broken me.
And now, Governor Chris Christie and his cronies in the Port Authority just blocked my raise.
This week the director of the NY/NJ Port Authority ordered raises for low-wage workers like me at JFK and LaGuardia airports. But Newark workers were left out. The reason? Chris Christie and his top person at the Port Authority refused to go along.
Christies cronies at the Port Authority punished an entire town by closing down bridge lanes. Now they are bullying me and my co-workers to protect the profits of major airlines.
Punishing working people while protecting the powerful is classic Chris Christie. This isnt even the first time Governor Christie has tried to stop me from getting a raise. Last year he actually vetoed a minimum wage increase for New Jersey workers.
We want a wage that lets us pay the bills and support our families, and its not fair that we may be denied the raise other workers over the Hudson will get just because were unlucky enough to have Chris Christie as our Governor.
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PETITION- Gov Christie: Don't stiff Newark Airport workers (Original Post)
proverbialwisdom
Feb 2014
OP
Sorry, he can't hear you. He's out of state/out to lunch raising money for rich Republicans.
libdem4life
Feb 2014
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libdem4life
(13,877 posts)1. Sorry, he can't hear you. He's out of state/out to lunch raising money for rich Republicans.
Hopefully Americans are listening...the polls show their preference for a decent, if still not a living minimum wage. Now they have to vote out all the Scrooges that infest the halls of Congress. If every minimum wage worker registered and voted, they'd get a raise. That's the only petition that works. Especially in New Jersey.
Workers, arise!
imthevicar
(811 posts)2. Done
For all the Good it will do. We're stuck with Gov. Fat Bastard for the next 3 years and change.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)3. Petitions aren't going to stop this psychopath
He needs to be impeached or sent to federal prison for racketeering.