ITS TIME TO GET GOING

Whether it’s healthcare, climate change, housing, or even our very rights being assaulted, life seems to be a whole five alarm fire coming to you live every day. It’s hard enough to get by and survive, let alone thrive, and the job market isn’t helping that at all.

A Worker’s Bill of Rights can change that. We can have the right to a fair salary, where our pay increases aren’t given away to stockholders or CEOs. A right to sanity, where workplaces can’t bully you, period. And a right to stability, where you can’t be laid off just to boost a company’s stock price.

The amount of job insecurity we face every day is exhausting, and I’m tired of being tired. I’m tired of begging for out of touch leaders to help us. It’s time for us to take the reins and turn the tides ourselves, for our kids, for our neighbors, and for each other. We aren’t collateral. We are people. And we can do it together.

Let’s go.

Who is this Rachel person?

Rachel Creemers is a progressive activist who worked with Bernie Sanders in DC to promote Medicare for All and the Green New Deal during her time at the Senate.

She is an educational animator, illustrator and a darn good barista who has used her skills to support progressive campaigns and causes up and down the east coast. She used her exceptional strategic and communication skills to organize a grassroots movement to save her alma mater, Hampshire College from being sold off for parts. Working with fundraisers, lawyers, researchers, teachers, and students, she helped to hold the board and president accountable for attempting to strong arm the college to close.

She has worked with unions such as the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), as well as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). She is unapologetic in her defense of workers rights and wants to expand those rights so that people can get some stability back in their life.

What’s the Platform?

You should be thriving, not just surviving.

I want to look forward to a future not crafted by reckless billionaires, but by normal people who are curious, kind, and clever. I want to help push forward brilliant ideas that give people healthcare, housing, and a climate they can thrive in.
I want to support research that will help us all live longer and better as we age. But mostly, I’d like to re-establish our social contract - where our work is fairly compensated, and where we work to live, not live to work. I want to establish laws and boundaries to give everyone back their most precious commodity: time.

Let’s go.

Our generation doesn’t get to save for retirement, we save for layoffs or burnout. That needs to change.
1. Right to sanity - workplaces aren’t allowed to bully you, period. You don’t have to be a protected class to be shielded from workplace bullying.
2. Right to Job Security - Large companies are too used to laying people off to boost their stock portfolios. We have normalized layoffs and if you control that much of the economy, you aren’t allowed to do that anymore.
3. Right to Fair Pay - the CEO of a company can only make 8x the amount of the lowest paid worker
Houses are for living in, not boosting a shady company’s stock portfolio.

I would work towards legislation that limits the amount of single family and multi-family homes an individual or a corporation could own to free up the housing stock for regular people.
Before this administration decided to slam on the breaks, expanding solar and wind energy didn’t just create jobs and reduce pollution, it also made our energy bills cheaper.

With our electric transmissions costs out-pacing our wattage costs, it’s just fiscally responsible restore and expand energy efficient tax breaks.

Because paying more for less on our electricity is always a bad deal.
We all have better things to do with our time than try to figure out how to avoid getting screwed by our insurance.

I want to live in a society where a frightening diagnosis is met with good treatment, not panicked web searches about how to start a GoFundMe.

I will support legislation that enshrines top quality medical care as a right, not a privilege, and give folks back their time and sanity.
We need to restore the wholesome staple of the American public, and increase the funding we had for the sector, doubling it’s funds

I can’t believe Republicans went after Sesame Street, but here we are.
I’m against using tax dollars to inspect people’s and children’s genitals. That’s weird and creepy.
Lawless and cruel immigration enforcement makes everyone less safe, and defiles what this nation was built on.

The vile behavior displayed by ICE agents as they terrorize our neighbors and friends needs to be addressed, and the victims made whole.