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1. Child Care Resources & An Infrastructure to Create Over 9.7 Million New Jobs 
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2. Fair chances on apprenticeships
Majority of young people who are out of work apply for apprenticeships. Currently in my town there are many apprenticeships although I've apply for many and still seem to get nothing out of the interview.
Apprenticeships are supposed to be helping young people like myself although its just like a normal job in the UK only the best get the job and now its the same for apprenticeships only the ones with the grades get the chance. Like myself I have loads of experience but the interviewers were only interested at grades and levels which at the time I did not have certificates to prove my grades due me just finishing school and not receiving the certificate till August 2011.
For example I live in my own flat at 17 with barely any money, living on money from social services which is very difficult to live on, but I do not want to be on benefits in the future or now I would like an opportunity to have a job and not be sat at home doing nothing.
3. Show The Real Unemployment Numbers
Let's finally get the real numbers out there. The administration wants to put out all these fake numbers and say the unemployment rate drops, but fail to mention all the people who ran out of benefits or no longer are looking for work because they can not find any.
4. Drug testing for ALL who receive earnings or benefits from taxpayers
Drug testing for welfare and unemployment benefits are underway. However, employed or unemployed, buying drugs with taxpayers dollars is unacceptable.
It is discrimination to limit one group of people. I am asking we have zero tolerance. Drug abuse is not a "lower class" epidemic. It is a widespread one.
5. Help the sick and injured in Canada
We want to change the laws in parliament. If a person is forced to leave work due to illness or injury they only get unemployment sick benefits for 15 weeks, yet if a person quits for the right reason they get up to 50 weeks unemployment benefits.
It takes Canada Pension Plan over four months to decide on whether or not a person is even eligible for C.P.P. Unemployment benefits should continue at least until C.P.P has made a decision.
With an unemployment high and our budget in a mess we need to demand that our leaders address the issue of unemployment in a manner that will actually put people to work and not raise our deficit or our taxes.
7. Stop Employers Performing Credit Checks Prior to Employment
The UK officially went into recession during the last 3 months of 2008 where there were more than two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. This evidently had a devastating impact on employment figures in the UK (UK in recession as economy slides: BBC News: website).
Coming out the recession the figures aren't getting any better. Within the last quarter the total number of unemployed people increased by 44,000 to reach 2.49 million. Youth unemployment reaching 965,000, the highest figure since such records began in 1992. And the long-term unemployment also deteriorated, with 17,000 more people out of work for more than a year, to a total of 833,000. (Economy tracker: BBC & Office of National Statistics: Respective websites)
Unemployment can make it hard to pay bills, and failing to do so can damage your job prospects and carry over to your credit rating. More and more companies (especially thoses in the financial sector - those directly linked to the recession between 2008-2010) are demanding that credit checks are conducted before you enter into employment with them.
This means employment opportunities can be lost and the duration of unemployment is lengthened for certain individuals. This creates a vicious cycle of chronic unemployment and state dependency. This form of discrimination hits those most vulnerable as well as disadvantaged groups such as single mothers, young people and disabled individuals.
This petition proposes there should be a ban on credit checks preceding employment contracts. Failing this a policy should be put in place that commands that if a credit check is conducted that this should not affect whether a person is accepted for an employment position.
The individual should be given the opportunity to improve their credit rating by agreeing to pay their debtors through their employer (e.g. an amount can be deducted from their monthly payslip and forwarded to their debtors - like with student loans). This provides a win win solution.
The company will know their employee is keen to solve past destructive credit patterns and they will gain recognition as beneficial company to work for and one that seeks to improve and develop its employees. The employee will gain employment and the ability to pay off their debtors while also gaining a better credit rating - clearing their name and making them more appealing to future employers
After witnessing a recession that took so many jobs from so many people, this is not the time (especially for the financial sector) to be providing a further barrier to employment by be demanding that credit checks be conducted on people who need work the most.
8. Review College Jobs application systems
As a student fresh out of college I am extremely frustrated looking for a job. Despite the fact that I may have equivalent experience through my education to enable me to work jobs such as an administrative assistant the computer systems do not take that into consideration and I get kicked out before anyone even looks at my resume.
If people wonder why college kids have such trouble finding decent jobs, this is why. I once got a rejection letter 10 minutes before I submitted my application.
9. Save Derbyshire Unemployed Workers' Centres (DUWCs)
Derbyshire Unemployed Workers' Centres (DUWCs) is an organisation established in the former coalfields area of North and East Derbyshire in the early 1980s as part of a TUC initiative to support people becoming unemployed.
The Centres opened offices throughout North Derbyshire as the excellent reputation of the organisation spread. In the current recessionary times the free, independent welfare rights advice provided is needed as much as ever.
10. Save Opening Doors service
Opening Doors service provides a valued and successful free employment and advice service to hundreds of unemployed people.
Lewisham Council has identified that the closure of the service will have ‘a particularly negative impact upon those residents living in those localities with the worst employment deprivation and income deprivation’ in the borough.
In addition, the closure will impact negatively and disproportionately on Black and Ethnic Minority people, who make up 66% of Opening Doors service users.
11. Stop Rising Unemployment in Michigan
With the fall of the auto industry and the nation in a recession, Detroit and the metro area has been hit the hardest economically, out of any region in the United States.
The nation's unemployment rate is 9.6%. Michigan's is a staggering 13.1%.
12. Save Jobs and Services - Middlesbrough & Teesside
Middlesbrough and the whole of Teesside face devastating cuts in jobs and services, which will affect workers and service users, shops and shoppers, schools and students, families, pensioners and claimants, and our communities across the board.
13. Keep Unemployment Benefits for Those Who Need It
Congress is currently sitting on the decision of whether or not to extend Unemployment Benefits to many states across the country. The extension of this program will help those families and individuals who are currently out of work and actively searching for jobs. By providing this assistance to citizens we are keeping thousands of people off the streets and in livable conditions.
If this extension does not pass, many people will be into positions where they could lose their transportation, housing and dignity.
14. Support a National Debt Relief Act
Largest Foreclosure and Economic catastrophe in the United States since the Great Depression.
15. Help The Homeless of Nevada
In Nevada over 15 percent of people are unemployed. This makes it hard for people to pay for homes, food and other necessities.
Some of these homeless and less fortunate people are our youth. These people of our future need support and help to make it through these hard times.
16. Stop Eskom Extortion Now !
Since inception, Eskom was a well run independent Company, backed by State guarantee. This guarantee has never been called upon until recent years due to gross mismanagement of Eskom.
Eskom's sole mandate was to ensure cheap electricity availability throughout South Africa to all who paid.
Since Eskom has been converted to a Profit making entity, it has become a complete shambles, threatening the very economy it was designed to benefit.
17. Funding for G2V Tech, A North TX Solar Company
Over eleven hundred semiconductor workers, engineers, and support staff were laid off when the silicon manufacturing plant, STMicroelectronics closed its site in Carrollton,TX and went overseas in this past year.
The last several dozen people in the company put together several state and federal grant and loan applications to convert this silicon manufacturing site to a silicon solar manufacturing company (G2V website: www.G2vtech.com ) complete with solar education, and certificate and degree programs, to not only retrain and hire back all 1100 people, but provide new Green Economy employable skills and education for other laid off workers and young people in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
The state grant was essential for the initial cost of the project - to buy the plant and set up the retraining with local colleges, and to apply for the Federal low interest loans. A group of thirty or forty scientist and engineers have been working on this business plan for the past 4 months.
In spite of a positive initial response from the TX state government, it seems that the state grant is not coming through. We requested 30 - 40 million dollars. There is enough money in the state budget allocation for the State Enterprise Development Fund to support this project, however the funding is basically at the discretion of TX Governor Perry (although the lieutenant governor and secretary of state also must sign their approval, if Governor Perry agrees, the other approvals are virtually assured.) As of now it seems that the application for the grant has been shelved indefinitely.
It should be noted that the cost of one year of state unemployment benefits for those laid off workers would be roughly equal to the grant in question to pay for the solar manufacturing facility - costing the state of TX and it's taxpayers nothing for this great benefit.
18. Increase the Jobseeker's Allowance
UK taxpayers have seen billions of pounds of their hard-earned cash poured into the banking system and watched as government ministers claim thousands more for second homes and other questionable ‘expenses’. Now we call on the government to return the favour and assist taxpayers, workers and families who have fallen on hard times due to no fault of their own.
Unemployment is 2 million and rising. As the economic crisis deepens, many unemployed workers face the loss of their savings and homes as they struggle to survive on the £64.30 a week Jobseeker’s Allowance for the over 25s. Despite paying into the National Insurance system – often for decades – many have been shocked to find they aren’t eligible to receive the full £64.30 a week or additional payments, such as housing benefit, because their partners are in work. Others are forced to commute many miles to ‘sign on’ to receive payments which barely cover their travel costs. The Jobseekers’ Allowance makes no allowances either for the cost of travel to job interviews or other expenses incurred in the job seeking process.
In addition, Jobseekers complain that Jobcentre Plus staff are often poorly trained and unsympathetic and that the system is currently incapable of helping white collar workers find skilled positions or providing relevant training schemes.
The system has to change.
19. Keep WA Job Network employees off the bread line - keep jobs and business in WA
WA not-for-profit, community based providers of the Job Network program will have their Commonwealth Government funded contracts, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, revoked from the 30 June and handed to for-profit providers; some based overseas.
This decision will leave thousands of people who work for these community providers laid off and looking for work themselves.
Be a community advocate for those providers that are loosing their contacts and have been silenced via non-disclosure clauses in their 2009-2012 applications by the Federal Government.
This petition will run until the start of April 2009 and be forwarded onto Australian Greens Senator Rachel Siewart to help demonstrate the impact of the Governments decision.
20. Give Income Tax Relief to Stimulate the Economy
Today's economy is in a rapid decline in several sectors. As many as 200,000 homes as in foreclosure monthly. Unemployment rates are at their highest in 7 years with 10.1 million unemployed persons in the last 12 months.
The DOW has seen its highest losses since the Great Depression now down 35.94% YTD, returns are down 28.18 in industrial, 14.11 in transportation, and 27.06 in utilities.22 of 26 commodities are down YTD as high as 50%. Retail is down 2.8% in Oct. 2008. Where is the relief promised in the 700 billion dollar bailout package?
21. Force the Banks to resume normal lending to save our jobs
The mortgage markets are in virtual paralysis. People can't buy homes or raise a loan for a car. Businesses can't raise finance for re-investment or to help underwrite cashflow. The entire financial system is virtually in grid-lock. We are all innocent victims of the excessive, irresponsible and greedy behaviour of the banks over the last few years.
Our High Street Banks loaned against 'assets' and 'mortgage-backed securities' which were worth only a fraction of their value at the time and they knew that. But no-one in the banking sector dared challenge them because they were all making so much money out of it. In short, they made bad loans with funds that they never had, nor could they ever expect to be paid back. But as the housing bubble grew and grew, not a single bank chose to blow the whistle.
Now with the inevitable collapse of the banking system which has only been prevented by a worldwide co-ordinated approach by the G7 governments, we as tax payers are all left paying for it. We are bailing them out for their irresponsible excesses and their toxic greed. Last month the UK Government approved a £250 billion bailout of the UK banking system, semi-nationalising them in the process. The US Federal Reserve is injecting a further £400 billion to prop up the Banks.
So we all have a significant stake in our banks now - quite literally. And yet these same institutions are the ones that are now hounding us for re-payment of our debts and making it virtually impossible to get a loan - be it for personal or business use. The Banks are using increasingly aggressive tactics to come after our comparatively tiny debts and in some cases are forcing their own customers to even sell their homes.
Businesses on the other hand cannot operate without liquidity and they desperately need finance and improved overdraft facilities to ease cash-flow and continue operating. Without that basic ingredient they cannot pay their staff and therefore the country is facing the imminent prospect of hundreds of thousands of job losses. One forecast puts total worldwide job losses at a staggering £20 million as a result of this crisis.
Despite interest rates being axed to just 3%, many of our banks rushed to pull discounted mortgage products from their catalogues. Other banks had to be FORCED by Downing Street to reduce their standard variable rates for customers as their reluctance to help businesses and consumers becomes ever-more evident.
Now, in these economically challenging conditions, is the time for Banks to stand-by their customers and deliver when it really matters. Banks need to realise their obligations to us as stakeholders; to safeguard peoples' jobs, homes and livelihoods. Any failure to do so will bring our country to its knees and create unimaginable misery for millions.
22. Revise the benefits system in the UK
The benefits system in the UK has taken a turn for the worse over the last 15 or so years. The amount of money and incentives there for people who are not working make it far too easy to rely on the welfare state.
The key to reducing unemployment and crime is to encourage self ownership and responsibility for personal circumstances.
The situation has gradually deteriorated under a Labour government who encourage people to have children they cannot afford to support by themselves, encourages abuse of the housing systems and openly allows exemption from the numerous taxes that everyone else has to pay on top of paying the tax for benefits in the first place.
If someone has NOT paid any NI contributions they should NOT be entitled to payment under the unemployment benefit system.
This is in no way intended to penalise people who cannot work for genuine reasons ie medical or disability.
I, along with many others in my situation, am paying university tuition fees, and borrowing student loans which i have infact paid into myself during my 5 years of full time employment prior to study. I am also working part time whilst studying and STILL paying in excess of £100 tax every month, not to mention VAT and sales tax on everything i buy, alongside a TV licence, Council Tax, extortionate rent and other housing costs.
Its time to see an end to this trend and the dissolving of the huge communities of benefit claiming people who are perfectly able to work, they are just bone idle.
I'm not a racist but enough is enough. Polish people are all over England and taking jobs that unemployed people will be happy to do if given the chance.
How come all the people in our cities that sleep rough are English. We need to make a stand or they will takeover.
Give them an inch and they will take what they can from this country.
24. Abolish All Hire at Will / Fire at Will States
We are enduring some pretty trying and challenging times here in the United States. I must ask you two questions, "Are you willing to take a chance and lose your job without cause"? And are you willing to sign a petition to overturn the laws that allow states (including yours) to employ individuals at will and fire at will?? Be clear, if you are employed at will, your employer really does not need good reason or cause to fire you. In almost EVERY every state, ( Montana is the only state which provides employees who meet the mandatory or subscribed "probationary period" from being targeted by employers and fired without cause), employers are at liberty to accept at-will employment policies. The unfortunate fact is having no policy from your employer that they will only fire workers where there is a good cause leaves you wide opened to being terminated without cause because you are employed at will.
I am a chief and prime example of one that was ultimately terminated in by my employer behind unfavorable actions and a lie of the wrongdoer.
The Salient fact reveals that the Human Resource Officer verbally stated .."if I had to choose your word over her word, I would choose her word ", (the wrongdoer). Termination followed. However, I was fired for something that had absolutely nothing to do with the relevant facts. I was further denied access to other corporate officials and did not have a clear chance to prevail.
Within four days following the employer's decision to terminate me, I received their offer consisting of severance pay, an offer to receive un insurance benefits, and a letter of recommendation, all in exchange for my signature to a resignation letter the company drafted. I choose not. Subsequently, I was issued a letter of right to sue from the EEO and found myself initiating a lengthy litigation process.
PLEASE SIGN THE RELEVANT PETITION. IT COULD BE YOU, YOUR SPOUSE, OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW AND LOVE. IT IS TIME FOR THIS LAW BE CHANGED!!
25. Urge U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer to Run for President of the United States in 2008
This is a petition to urge the Honorable Barbara Boxer to run for the office of President of the United States of America in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
Barbara Boxer is one of the greatest American politicians today. She has steadfastly stood up for the core progressive values of liberty, equality, justice, compassion and truth, even when she has had to stand alone and face overwhelming odds.
When numerous reports of voting irregularities and fraud in the 2004 U.S. presidential election in the pivotal State of Ohio started to emerge on weblogs and 'dissident' websites, when the mainstream media utterly failed to report, let alone investigate those stories, and the State and Federal Governments tried as hard as they could to cover up the truth of what had happened, it was Barbara Boxer who became the sole member of the U.S. Senate to demand accountability from the Republican establishment by signing a Congressional objection to the certification of Ohio's Electoral College votes on January 6, 2005 and articulating those concerns before a national audience.
When Condoleezza Rice was expecting a smooth and triumphant passage through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's confirmation hearings on her nomination to become U.S. Secretary of State, it was Barbara Boxer who challenged her outright to admit to misleading the nation, while taking part in the political campaign to sell the Bush Administration's criminal intent to invade Iraq, and advocating the use of torture against detainees.
When George W. Bush asked the U.S. Congress to authorize his long premeditated invasion and occupation of Iraq, Barbara Boxer was one of the few proud members of the Senate to perceive his true agenda, and oppose granting him such authority. She has consistently spoken out against the war, while at the same time working to ensure that the sacrifice of our brave men and women in uniform is being duly honored and rewarded.
Barbara Boxer has been a champion of women's rights, environmental protection, job creation, fiscal responsibility, medical research, educational opportunities for all, and has unfailingly stood up for the poor and the vulnerable.
Barbara Boxer has made mistakes, no doubt, but she has been willing to recognize and acknowledge her mistakes, and to do what she can to correct them. That is the mark of a true progressive.
It is therefore a privilege for us to ask the Honorable Barbara Boxer to run for the office of President of the United States of America in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, and to make the following pledge:
