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    Petition to OIT, International Labour Organization, ilo

    IT Professionals Worldwide Strike

    …IT professionals around the world deserve better working conditions, better schedules, better … professionals. This is a call for a worldwide strike so for 5 days all IT professionals around the world stop … fundamental principle of our current world. The IT Professionals Worldwide Strike will begin at 0:00 UTC…

    IT Professionals
    Worlds End, Australia
    14,140
    Supporters
    • IT Professionals Worlds End, Australia
    • 14,140 supporters
    • Created Jul 10, 2019
    Petition to Tim Walz, Melissa Hortman, Kurt Daudt, Paul Gazelka, Susan Kent, Gina Fast, Steve Grove

    Help Salon & Spa Professionals

    …Minnesota salon professionals are being crushed by the COVID-19 crisis.  We are independent … this crisis is managing people's mental health, in this, salon professionals are absolutely essential … them that everything is going to be okay. Salon professionals are essential to how people feel about…

    Phenix Salon Suites Ridgedale
    14,293
    Supporters
    • Phenix Salon Suites Ridgedale
    • 14,293 supporters
    • Created Apr 8, 2020
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    Petition to Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock, Priti Patel

    Care workers need to be seen as skilled professionals

    … government see care workers as professionals and skilled workers and I urge anyone - especially if…

    Mark Topps
    Chelmsford, United Kingdom
    105,410
    Supporters
    • Mark Topps Chelmsford, United Kingdom
    • 105,410 supporters
    • Created Feb 20, 2020
    Petition to California Labor Federation, Senator Robert Hertzberg, Christine Aurre, Senator Ben Allen, Ron Herrera, Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, Senator Harry Stern, Assemblyman K...

    Help Independent California Music Professionals Secure Exemption Under AB5

    To the esteemed members of the California Assembly and Legislature: AB5 will have a devastating and catastrophic impact on independent musicians, their livelihoods and the music industry in general in California. Musicians’ businesses operate in a substantially different way than many other types of industries, and the changes brought by AB5 are not sustainable with our business model. Each year, a musician may be booked by numerous entities or individuals and may also contract numerous individuals. Musicians often wear different hats; as performers on their own and other musicians’ recordings and live performances, as session musicians, as instructors, as producers, as composers and songwriters, as bookers and as bandleaders. For example, in a given week, a musician might: Perform one live gig under their own name and two in other bands Teach eight private lessons Produce three songs for a client, involving booking a studio and session musicians Record their own songs with other live musicians Subcontract musicians and play at a wedding In just that one week, the musician would be both employer and employee numerous times over in the AB5 model. This is exponentially true over the course of a year. Using the Uber and Lyft model that precipitated AB5, imagine there are thousands of different rideshare companies. A driver might work for multiple companies for only a few hours every year, and drive with multiple others a couple of hours each week or month. That same driver also owns a rideshare company that uses other drivers. This imagined scenario closely resembles musicians’ situations. Under AB5, independent musicians will be misclassified as employers/employees when they are in fact not and do not wish to be. Most professional musicians in California do not have assistants, lawyers, agents or business managers. Most of us make a modest income in order to pursue our craft. The costs associated with AB5 would be crippling. Incorporating or becoming an LLC is prohibitively expensive, and payroll companies do not work with our business model. If one musician is contracted by another to perform on one song on a record, and the booking musician must go through a payroll company, they must pay fees for that one musician for the entire year. Multiplied by the amount of times one musician can contract other musicians throughout the year, the costs and logistics become overwhelming for an individual. Most musicians in California are not celebrities. We are members of the working class. We have worked diligently to pursue our art, build up clients and nurture professional relationships so that we may continue to create and entertain. We work for and with each other on projects. There is no company or corporate structure. Our work is on a per-project basis and frequently the person booking us is a fellow musician. If a musician is contracted to play on one song on an album, they recognize that there is no promise of future employment. They cannot claim unemployment against their colleague that booked them. Being a professional musician is, by definition, a freelance occupation. The term “gig” was coined in the 1920’s by jazz musicians. Musicians cannot stop freelancing and work at “Blank Music Company” since it doesn’t exist. Music organizations that do offer secure, full- time employment and benefits, such as symphony orchestras, are blindingly difficult to get into. First-call union session musicians in Los Angeles can enjoy an excellent living and benefits, but the lines for those recording sessions are long and few musicians will ever make the bulk of their living this way. Most of us piece together our living from numerous opportunities throughout the year, which we welcome and want to do. We are, frankly, terrified of AB5 as it applies to us. The ABC test is so strict and the fines are so high that many entities will simply stop using California musicians altogether. Clubs will switch to recorded music rather than use payroll companies, composers will use sampled instruments rather than live players and much of our business will simply move to Nashville, New York or Atlanta. The Los Angeles jazz scene has, in the past several years, surpassed that of New York in terms of creativity and visibility, but it is not a money- making venture and is vulnerable in that respect. Jazz clubs, with their limited resources, could become so overburdened that they may be forced to close, which would be a great loss to the state of California, both economically, artistically and in terms of its newfound reputation as a hub for creative music. We are aware that exemptions for musicians were discussed and ultimately negated by the AFM, but the AFM represents only a fraction of musicians in California and does not speak for the majority of us. Most independent musicians were not aware of the existence of AB5 or how it could impact them until after its passing, and most are still not. We appreciate your efforts to go after billion-dollar conglomerates such as Uber and Lyft, but the reality is that independent musicians are much closer to the drivers economically. Many of the individuals in the professions that were granted exemptions – doctors, lawyers and architects – make many times over the salaries of average working musicians. Why not grant independent musicians, who need it even more, the same exemption? We are proud to call ourselves independent California musicians. We want to continue as independent contractors so that we may continue to pursue our craft in the best possible way for us. We would be grateful for an exemption that recognizes the unique nature of our field and allows us to continue to make the best music we possibly can.

    Alicia Spillias
    Los Angeles, CA, United States
    188,935
    Supporters
    • Alicia Spillias Los Angeles, CA, United States
    • 188,935 supporters
    • Created Dec 16, 2019
    Petition to Leaders of our Nation, Narendra Modi, Dr Santanu Sen, Dr. Harsh Vardhan

    Medical professionals need protection and gear to fight Covid 19 !

    …Doctors and medical professionals are fighting A LOSING BATTLE TO CORONA. Exposure to and risk of … complications from Corona are much higher in medical professionals.  If they are not safe how can the…

    Asit Khanna
    India
    314,836
    Supporters
    • Asit Khanna India
    • 314,836 supporters
    • Created Mar 21, 2020
    Petition to

    Bring back covid sick pay for NHS professionals

    …Health care professionals up and down the country have worked front line, clinically, with patients…

    Maria Esslinger-Raven
    Lytham Saint Annes, ENG, United Kingdom
    40,283
    Supporters
    • Maria Esslinger-Raven Lytham Saint Annes, ENG, United Kingdom
    • 40,283 supporters
    • Created Jul 6, 2022
    Petition to Donald J. Trump, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Andrew M. Cuomo, Charles E. Schumer, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, New York State House, New York State Senate, Carolyn B. Maloney, New York Times, Alexandria Ocasio...

    Hazard Pay for Nurses, Doctors and Healthcare Professionals

    …Healthcare professionals across the country, from nurses, doctors, EMTs, public health officials to … of students and retired healthcare professionals *** If you are able, please consider donating to…

    Peter C
    United States
    688,914
    Supporters
    • Peter C United States
    • 688,914 supporters
    • Created Mar 16, 2020
    Petition to Simon Stevens, Matthew Hancock MP, Hugh McCaughey

    Introduce comprehensive, mandatory training on LGBT issues for healthcare professionals

    …, vague, inconsistent across Trusts, and of poor quality. This leads to healthcare professionals…

    Holly Wells
    Oxford, ENG, United Kingdom
    31,824
    Supporters
    • Holly Wells Oxford, ENG, United Kingdom
    • 31,824 supporters
    • Created Jun 5, 2020
    Petition to California Governor, California State Senate, California State House, Kimberly Kirchmeyer, Sonia Angell

    Support Independent Hairdressers & Beauty Professionals in Safely Reopening Salons

    … services outdoors puts beauty professionals at a higher risk of contracting and spreading COVID-19 and … environment of the salon. Beauty professionals have proven they can slow the spread of COVID-19 in the salon … salon studios, beauty professionals perform one-to-one beauty services in a private and enclosed … space limiting mass human contact. Within the salon, beauty professionals have more control over … professionals as essential businesses, requiring services to be performed outside is putting our professionals…

    Sola Salon Studios, My Salon Suites, Phenix Salons, Salons by JC, Image Salons
    27,147
    Supporters
    • Sola Salon Studios, My Salon Suites, Phenix Salons, Salons by JC, Image Salons
    • 27,147 supporters
    • Created Jul 21, 2020
    Petition to The Government of India

    Ensuring the safety and Respect of healthcare professionals in current pandemic scenario

    … management of this crisis,our doctors and health care professionals are still being targeted by some … to find a silver hope to hang on to...to ensure the safety of our Health care professionals....Let us…

    Rajdeep Rahman
    Barpeta, India
    96,528
    Supporters
    • Rajdeep Rahman Barpeta, India
    • 96,528 supporters
    • Created May 23, 2021
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