Friend,

Writers Guild of America members have been on strike for 83 days. Screen Actors Guild members joined them just over a week ago, marking the first time since 1960 that the two unions have been on strike together.

Airport workers at LaGuardia and JFK have also hit the picket line this summer, while LA’s hotel workers are preparing to walk out a second time as they continue to fight for a fair contract. And UPS Teamsters are preparing to strike after UPS left the negotiating table over two weeks ago.

Hot Labor Summer is heating up, and the number of strikes across the country are not a coincidence. Over the last 40 years, the meaningful decline in union membership across the country has meant less collective bargaining and lower profit-sharing agreements between employees and leaders.

The result? Four decades of a growing imbalance in worker productivity and worker pay, and now the largest CEO-worker pay gap in the last century.

Workers deserve better.

If pay had kept up with productivity, our country’s minimum wage would be $20 an hour. Instead, the federal minimum wage has been $7.25 since 2009. Adjusted for inflation, $7.25 in 2009 should be $10.31 in 2023. Instead of earning wages that could actually support a family, workers at this rate are now making 17% less than they were in 2023.

When workers are strong, America is strong. And when workers have the right to create and join unions and fight collectively for fair pay and fair working conditions, everyone wins.

There is one party that will protect your right to unionize, fight to increase the federal minimum wage, continue to bring down the costs of healthcare, and protect your hard-earned Social Security and Medicare benefits. And we must ensure that party holds the White House and the Senate, and wins back the house in 2024. [[link removed]]

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I have spent the last three decades in the House fighting to support working families, and I have never been more fired up. Support my campaign to ensure our House of Representatives goes back to being the People’s House where America's workers are valued and protected. [[link removed]]

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Always in solidarity,
Nydia


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