Tell Greg Abbott "get your hands off my pay raise!"

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Tell Greg Abbott "get your hands off my pay raise!"

Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick, Ken Paxton, and other Texas politicians are blocking pay raises for nearly 400,000 Texas families. By opposing a plan to make hundreds of thousands of Texas workers eligible for overtime -- a plan that would have gone into effect just three weeks before the holidays.

Can you stand with us and tell Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton to stop blocking raises and get their hands off working people's pay checks? Make your voice heard, now!

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To: Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
From: [Your Name]

By opposing a plan to make hundreds of thousands of Texas workers eligible for overtime -- a plan that would have gone into effect just three weeks before the holiday season.

We are calling on you and others who put the state’s name on a lawsuit against the overtime rule to reverse course.

Because of inflation, the existing overtime rule forces salaried workers who are barely making ends meet to give up large chunks of their lives in overtime work that doesn’t net them an extra nickel.

If the State of Texas wants to advocate for free overtime hours taken from workers who can’t make it to the middle class, you and others need to explain how that is fair, just or even good for business. As you celebrate poverty wages, what is their alternative?

We are calling on all of you who halted the overtime rule and the Legislature to pass laws that support the livelihoods of working families in this state. Working families need much more than a fix for the discarded overtime rule. A good place to start would be a meaningful increase in the minimum wage, a family leave law, an equal pay law and other measures that raise wages and living standards, rather than decimate them.

Because of our leadership’s actions in federal court, instead of getting to spend more time with their families or seeing an increase in their paycheck, some 370,000 Texas workers may, in some cases, have to continue laboring for what in effect is a sub-minimum wage. This is morally wrong and contrary to Texas values.

Texas leaders are complicit in turning the overtime rule on its head. A rule designed to give salaried American workers more time with their families has instead become a powerful incentive for employers to keep them working and away from their families. Instead of working to live, victims of the overtime rule are living to work.

Texans believe in a decent day’s pay for a decent day’s work, and we will fight for that for all workers at every turn. There is no justice in allowing so-called “managers,” “administrators,” and “professionals” to make sub-minimum wages for the long hours they work.

Sincerely ,

Hard Working Families of Texas