Please do this for your country - and me

Please copy and print the letter below, sign it and mail it to your congressman. Then let me know you did that by phoning me at 574-772-3332 or email me at charlieav@embarqmail.com. If I can get enough of them mailed, my SOAR Chapter will get a free banner and I'll be very appreciative.

Thanks.

Charlie Averill

Here's the letter:



U. S. House of Representatives

Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Representative ________________________

I am writing to inform you of the callous disregard David Cote, CEO of Honeywell and a member of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform has for working families and urge you to demand his resignation from this Presidential Commission.

On June 28, Honeywell locked out 230 union workers at its hexafluoride plant in Metropolis, Illinois, even though they offered to continue working under the terms of their expired labor agreement. Under Cote’s leadership, Honeywell had proposed eliminating retiree health care and increasing workers’ out-of-pocket health care maximums to $8,500 a year. The union declined to accept that proposal and offered to continue working as they attempted to reach an agreement. Honeywell refused and instead locked out the workers.

A profitable company’s demands that workers and retirees relinquish health benefits and its locking out workers who offered to continue talks demonstrate that its CEO, David Cote, is out of touch with mainstream America and has absolutely no compassion for his fellow man. Anyone who would force their workers onto the streets in these times of economic uncertainty cannot competently or justly serve on a Commission charged with issuing recommendations that may impact our nation’s citizens for decades.

What we find extremely troubling is how Cote is proposing to end health insurance for retirees who were for years exposed on their job to hazardous materials, including substances listed as carcinogens by the Department of Energy. These workers suffer high cancer rates. Cote’s proposal to terminate their health insurance is cruel and inhumane.

Mr. Cote’s cruel and calculated behavior toward workers clearly illustrates that he’s unqualified and inappropriate to help decide issues such as whether to reduce the federal deficit by cutting crucial programs like Social Security or by upgrading the faulty military contracting process, from which Honeywell benefits. David Cote’s complete disregard for working Americans, makes him unfit to serve on the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. He must be removed immediately, before he can use that position to harm more working people.


Sincerely,

Name _______________________________________________


Mailing address _______________________________________________