Thursday, August 3 - All Workers Need Water Breaks / Protect Abortion Rights in Ohio
Action You Can Take Today
Action 1: Let Your Representative Know That All Workers Need Water Breaks
Action 2: Protect abortion rights in Ohio
Action 1: All Workers Need Water Breaks
As we’ve all experienced record-breaking heat this summer, workers across the country have been left without any federal protections to ensure safe working conditions in extreme heat.
All workers need – and deserve – adequate time to rest and take water breaks as well as access to medical services for heat-related illnesses. We can’t rely on employers to provide those protections on their own. Some Republicans, like Governor Greg Abbott in Texas, are even moving to eliminate local heat protections for workers, an outrageous attack on their safety. There needs to be a federal workplace heat standard that protects the health and safety of workers.
Ask your representative to support creating federal standards so that all workers have water breaks and other heat protections. Let them know that you, and workers across the country, are counting on them to ensure that all workers have a safe work environment, no matter how hot it is outside
Call your representative today and let them know that all workers need water breaks!
Action via Indivisible
Action 2: Protect Abortion Rights in Ohio
Indivisible Chicago is joining forces with the Democratic Party of Ohio to block what newspapers are calling a “statehouse con” and a “historic abuse of power”--an effort by Ohio Republicans to sneak into law an anti-abortion/anti-democracy measure that would leave voters without recourse against the extremism of their far-right legislature.
This cynical power-grab is called “Issue 1” and it’s the only thing on the ballot in a special election scheduled for August. To protect their right to a voice in their own government, Ohio voters must VOTE NO on this initiative.
The shamelessness of Issue 1 is breathtaking. Last year Ohio Republicans voted to eliminate August elections because they are expensive and extremely low-turnout. But when Ohio doctors and activists began collecting signatures for a ballot initiative to protect abortion rights, far-right extremists realized that an ultra-low-turnout is just what they need! So they have scheduled this election, which will cost Ohio taxpayers $20 million, to slip in a new rule requiring 60 percent of voters to approve constitutional amendments; the current threshold is 50 percent plus one. This change would make amendments virtually impossible in Ohio, leaving no recourse for citizens whose voices are stymied by their impossibly gerrymandered legislature.
Because turnout will be super-low, this election can be won on the phones. Join us getting this message to Ohio voters: vote NO on Issue 1!
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