Whether it’s fair pay, discrimination, or sexual harassment, forced arbitration bars workers’ access to the courts, and class and collective action waivers make it impossible for people to exercise their right to seek justice collectively—undermining the National Labor Relations Act and further eroding workers’ rights and freedoms.

This week’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court―siding with businesses and the Trump administration over working people―deals a significant blow to workers’ fundamental right to join together to address workplace disputes.

Congress must act to restore this fundamental right by banning forced arbitration agreements and class and collective action waivers.

Sign the petition demanding Congress act immediately to protect the rights of over 60 million U.S. workers who are being forced to sign away their rights to join together to seek justice in the courts.

Since DACA was implemented in June 2012, nearly 800,000 DREAMers have utilized these new legal protections to attend universities, work, and live without fear of being ripped apart from their families.

Bringing DACA recipients into the formal labor market has raised the wages of hundreds of thousands of workers, resulting in new contributions to public coffers, including Social Security and Medicare, and federal, state and local governments.

President Trump’s ill-advised decision to end DACA last September, without a permanent solution from Congress, has turned the DACA debate into an urgent priority.

Sign the petition demanding Congress pass a clean DREAM Act that immediately protects current DACA recipients and all DREAMers who were brought to the United States as children. Don’t let DREAMers be used as bargaining chips to ram through Trump’s draconian immigration agenda.

Most public investments in infrastructure―building roads, bridges, transportation systems, water and sewer systems―are funded by federal, state and local governments and their construction and maintenance are overseen by democratically accountable governments. Research shows that public investments accelerate productivity growth, providing the potential for pay increases for working people.

But Donald Trump’s apparent approach to infrastructure investment is to make a token federal commitment, put a heavier burden on already-stretched state governments and invite private developers in to receive subsidies. Worse, the Trump administration has already announced one specific plank of their infrastructure plan: under-funding the Highway Trust Fund by $140 billion over the next decade. The result is likely to be very little boost to actual infrastructure investment, further pressure on state governments and the opportunity for private-sector profiteering.

Stand with EPI and demand a public infrastructure commitment that invests in our communities at scale and doesn’t just provide subsidies to private developers.

Last year, the Department of Labor updated the overtime pay rule to extend overtime eligibility to 4.9 million more working people, and strengthen the rights of 7.6 million more. This August, a Texas district court ruled in favor of business interests, over working people, effectively blocking the rule.

At a time of massive income inequality, strengthening overtime protections for low- and middle-income families is one of the most important actions we can take.

Sign the petition to the Department of Labor demanding it defend the overtime pay of millions of working people and commit to the Obama-era overtime salary threshold of at least $47,476 and indexing the threshold so that it maintains its value for millions of working people.

This horribly destructive bill repeals the ACA and cuts Medicaid over and on top of that. And, in a clear attempt to hide just how many people it will deprive of health security, the bill’s authors have back-loaded the most severe Medicaid cuts.

If enacted, Graham-Cassidy would result in over 30 million people losing healthcare coverage.

Sign the petition today to protect the healthcare of tens of millions of Americans. Tell your Senators to reject Trumpcare.

Despite all their bluster about family values Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress refuse to implement policies that would raise the wages of working moms.

Sign the petition today calling on President Trump and Congress to implement policies that raise the wages of working moms and of all working people, and that starts with raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Donald Trump claims that he wants to protect Medicare and take on the pharmaceutical industry. Yet Trumpcare would cut the resources that fund Medicare by at least $117 billion, and gives a $25 billion tax handout to drug companies―part of a $465 billion tax break to the wealthy and health care industry.

And now, according to the new score by the Congressional Budget Office, 14 million people will lose their health care in the first year of Trumpcare with another 10 million losing health care by 2026. That’s 24 million people who will lose health care under Donald Trump!

Sign the petition telling Congress to reject Trumpcare, protect the health care of 24 million individuals and stop this massive tax giveaway to the wealthy and health care industry.

Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress may be preparing to revoke a suite of Obama-era executive orders that have provided basic protections for U.S. workers.

The executive orders implemented by the previous administration were important steps to:

Provide paid sick leave for federal contractors

Limit gender and race wage discrimination by increasing pay transparency

Boost wage growth by requiring a minimum wage of $10.20 for federal contractors—lower than what is needed but higher than the current federal minimum wage of $7.25

Safeguard federal contract workers from being forced into unfair internal arbitration systems that make it harder to fight back against discrimination, wage theft, and other violations of worker rights

Require transparency from contractors about violations of labor laws and ensure that federal dollars don’t reward unscrupulous employers

Approximately 25 percent of the U.S. workforce is employed by companies that do business with the federal government, representing $500 billion of business each year on contracts for goods and services.

The Obama-era executive orders hardly constitute a radical agenda. Instead, it is the highly anticipated actions by President Trump and the GOP controlled Congress that signal something radical—a radical assault on the workers candidate Trump claimed to support.

Stand with the Economic Policy Institute today. Sign the petition demanding that President Donald Trump and Congress really support working people.

Donald Trump’s selection for labor secretary—fast-food CEO Andrew Puzder—has a long history of anti-worker and anti-government rhetoric and fails every test for labor secretary.

Puzder has made his fortune on the backs of low-wage workers.

He doesn’t believe in the federal minimum wage and has threatened to replace his fast-food chain’s employees with robots if the minimum wage rises high enough.

He is opposed to the new overtime rule that would give millions of workers the right to reasonable work hours or to receive the overtime pay they deserve.

His fast-food chain has a long history of wage theft—cheating workers until it gets caught by state or federal investigators or gets sued by employees.

Rep. Sam Johnson—Chairman of the House Social Security Subcommittee—has introduced a bill that would cut most Social Security recipients’ benefits by an average of 27 percent. Some long-lived recipients would lose up to three-quarters of their benefits.

Johnson’s bill includes an assortment of benefit cuts including raising the retirement age to 69 (equivalent to a 13.5 percent across-the-board cut), changing the benefit formula (9 percent average cut), and slashing the cost-of-living adjustment (13 percent average cut).

Sign the petition today opposing Chairman Sam Johnson’s “Social Security Reform Act,” which cuts benefits for 70 percent of Social Security recipients.