The Koch-backed Center for Individual Rights has filed a lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to substantially weaken the ability of public service employees, like teachers and firefighters, to negotiate together for better wages and working conditions.

This thinly veiled ploy aims to ultimately eliminate the right to organize--and give corporations unlimited power to pay workers as little as the market will bear, while keeping as much as possible for themselves.

Sign if you agree: The right to collective bargaining must be protected, not destroyed.

Currently, the law specifies that when the majority of people vote to form a union, the union is required to represent everyone in the workplace, even if the employee is not a union member. Anyone who decides they don't want to be part of the union but benefits from union negotiations, contributes their fair share of the cost of negotiating that agreement.

No one is required to join a union, and therefore no one is required to contribute to the political or lobbying program of a union. Those who opt out of union representation only need to pay the cost of the negotiations on their behalf.

It is a system set up to protect the rights and privileges of working people and CEOs would prefer it didn't exist.

Sign the petition: Hands off collective bargaining. Working people have the right to negotiate.

In the case coming before the Supreme Court, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, corporate vultures are arguing to take away right of workers to negotiate as a group.

Right now the case is restricted to "public employees," but a win would open the floodgates for restrictions on the rights of all employees, public or private sector.

It's already way too hard for many Americans to get by, let alone get ahead. And If the Koch brothers get their way, it will be another major blow to the middle class.

Sign the petition: Enough is enough! It's time to stop attacking working people and the right to organize.