WI AFL-CIO PETITION: http://tinyurl.com/oqe85ry

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Working families are coming together to protect our civil service from politicians in Madison who want to rig the system in order to hire their friends and relatives. Join us as we make calls to help connect union members to their elected representative. You can also click here to send a message to legislators. 

Together we can voice opposition to a SB285 (State Civil Service Destruction Bill) which would pave the way for political cronyism and corruption in the hiring and firing of our state employees.

Phone banks will be in Milwaukee and Madison on Monday, October from 5 from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Milwaukee

WI AFL-CIO

6333 W. Bluemound Road

Milwaukee, WI 53213

Contact: Emily Mueller – 414–745-8343 or ekitchin@wisaflcio.org

Madison

Madison Labor Temple

1602 S. Park Street #212

Madison, WI 53715

Contact: Wendy Strout – 262–385-8473 or wstrout@aflcio.org

Send an email to your legislators in Madison by clicking here.

Don’t forget that Tuesday, October 6 is the Senate Committee on Labor and Government Reform hearing on the civil service bill. The hearing will start at 8:30 a.m. in room 411S and continues to 6:00 p.m., with a break from 11:50 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Please attend this hearing and testify in opposition to this attack on our long-standing and landmark civil service law.

In Solidarity,

Phil Neuenfeldt, President

Stephanie Bloomingdale, Secretary-Treasurer

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More than five years after the Internal Revenue Service initiated efforts to strip the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) of its status as a non-profit organization, we have learned that the IRS Appeals Office plans to uphold the revenue agent’s recommendation to revoke our 501c3 status..

…We know that you have always supported the mission of IFCO. We are now asking that you, your house of worship or your organization kindly take a few minutes to write your members of Congress, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen and Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew to demand that the IRS drop its attack on IFCO. We need to act quickly before the ruling becomes final. Please, stop what you are doing and write the IRS Commissioner and the Secretary of Treasury.

Tell them:
– It is the height of hypocrisy for the US government to renew its attack on IFCO on the heels of the historic visit of Pope Francis who plead for the nations of the world to work together on behalf of the human family.
– This attack by the US government makes no sense in light of the significant moves of both the Obama and Castro administrations to normalize relations.
– Denounce this threat against IFCO – one of the nation’s oldest faith-based civil rights
organizations and the first ecumenical foundation founded by and for people of color.
– To stop bullying IFCO for helping the people of Cuba and allow us to continue our life-saving humanitarian work

WRITE or PICK UP THE PHONE NOW: (We’re trying to get email addresses, but a ‘real’ note is worth many many emails!)

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen
1111 Constitution Avenue NW
Large Business and International Division
Attn: SE:LB
Washington, DC 20224
Phone: (202) 515-4400
Fax: (202) 622-5756

and

Secretary of Treasury Jacob J. Lew
Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20220
Phone: (202) 622-2000.
Fax: (202) 622-6415

Please be sure to email a copy of what you send to Commissioner Koskinen and Secretary Lew to IFCO at: ifco@ifconews.org