FYI,<br /><br />Fraternally,<br /><br /><br />DeVar Thompson<br />SMART-TD Local 168<br />Local Chairperson<br />773-606-4321<br /><br />---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />From: Dirk Sampson &lt;DSampson@smarttd769.org&gt;<br />Date: Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:03 AM<br />Subject: FW: Reject Judge Kavanaugh<br />To: Dirk Sampson &lt;DSampson@smarttd769.org&gt;<br /><br />For your information.<br /> <br />Fraternally,<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Dirk A. Sampson<br />General Chairman, GO-769<br />SMART - Transportation Division<br />1515 Market Street, Suite 708<br />Philadelphia, PA 19102<br />Phone: 215-564-1750<br />Fax: 215-665-8196<br />email: Dsampson@smarttd769.org <br /> <br />&#8594; Share this graphic and reject Judge Kavanaugh <br /> <br />________________________________________<br />Dirk, <br /><br />Working people expect the Supreme Court to be the most fair and independent branch of government in America, yet recent decisions have protected the privileged and powerful at the expense of working people. Decisions by the Court, often by the narrowest of margins, have a dramatic impact on our lives as we recently saw in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31 and reinforce the importance of choosing who sits on the Court. <br /><br />Share this graphic and reject Judge Brett Kavanaugh because we simply cannot have another Justice on the Court who sides with corporations over America’s working families. <br />We have thoroughly reviewed the record of Judge Kavanaugh on cases of importance to working families and are compelled to oppose his nomination. <br />Judge Kavanaugh routinely rules against working families, regularly rejects the right of employees to receive employer-provided health care in the workplace, too often sides with employers in denying employees relief from discrimination in the workplace and promotes overturning well-established U.S. Supreme Court precedent. <br />Any Supreme Court nominee must be fair, independent and committed to protecting the rights, freedoms and legal safeguards that protect every one of us. Judge Kavanaugh does not meet this standard.The next justice confirmed to a lifetime appointment on the Court will play a pivotal role in new cases addressing health care, worker safety issues and collective bargaining rights for generations to come. <br /><br />This current Supreme Court has shown that it will side with greedy corporations over working people whenever given the chance, and this nominee will only skew that further. The Senate should reject this nomination and demand a nominee who will protect the rights of working people and uphold our constitutional values of liberty, equality and justice for all. <br />Across the country, working people are organizing and taking collective action as we haven’t seen in years and won’t stand for any politician who supports justices who put our rights at risk. <br />Share this graphic and reject Judge Brett Kavanaugh. <br />Our fight for better wages and benefits and a voice on the job will continue on. The rich and powerful won’t dictate the American story. We will pave our own path, populate the halls of power with allies of working people and secure a brighter economic future. <br />In Solidarity, <br /><br />Rich<br />------<br />Richard Trumka<br />President, AFL-CIO <br />________________________________________<br /><br />&nbsp;  <br />Visit us at www.aflcio.org | Facebook | Twitter <br />Text WORK to AFLCIO (235246) to join our text action team. (Message and data rates may apply.)<br /><br /><br />Sent via ActionNetwork.org. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from AFL-CIO, please click here. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br />