John,

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and I have been joining picket lines to support striking workers, including UAW workers on strike now across the country.

When my father joined the UAW, we got healthcare for the first time. And when Alexandria supported her family by working as a waitress and bartender, she lived without health insurance or dignity in the workplace.

The fight for workers’ rights is personal for both of us, which is why AOC and I are legislating with the urgency that working-class communities deserve.

While CEOs and billionaires are making record profits, workers are struggling to put food on the table and stay in their homes. This is an unacceptable and unjust status quo, so we’re building the power needed to change it.

As we fight for working people and marginalized communities, we’re up against billionaires and greedy corporations who seek to silence us, attack our rights, and maintain their obscene profits on the backs of workers.

This Saturday is an urgent end-of-quarter fundraising deadline after which we’ll report to the Federal Election Commission how much we’ve raised and spent, and how much cash on hand we have for the fight ahead.

Will you split an end-of-quarter contribution of $5 or more between my and AOC’s re-election campaigns so we can keep defending workers’ rights and fighting back against corporate greed?

If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your secure donation will go through immediately, split evenly between Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Please feel free to check out yesterday’s email for more information about some of the workers’ rights legislation we’ve led in Congress. Our teams have also been training everyday people about how to unionize and how to protect people’s right to strike.

We’re committed to this struggle alongside you and working-class people everywhere.

In solidarity,

Rashida

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From: Rashida Tlaib
Date: Tue, Sep 26, 2023
Subject: Justice for working-class people:
To: [email protected]

John,

From a young age, I’ve appreciated the power of strong unions. When my father joined the UAW, our family got healthcare for the first time and he learned what human dignity felt like in the workplace.

Now, most people in our country are living paycheck to paycheck, and UAW workers are on strike, joining workers rising up across the country to say: Enough with corporate greed. Enough with crumbs when CEOs are being paid record salaries.

My sister-in-service Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has worked as a bartender and a waitress to make ends meet. Because of her personal experiences living without health insurance or dignity in the workplace, AOC understands how urgently and boldly we must fight for economic justice. And that’s exactly what we’re doing in Congress.  

As we fight for workers’ rights and fight back against attacks on marginalized communities, we’re under attack by those who seek to maintain an unjust status quo. The millionaire and billionaire class seek to silence us—women of color who have the lived experiences of millions of working and low-income people across the country.

Can you make an urgent donation to my and AOC’s re-election campaigns before Saturday’s urgent end-of-quarter deadline so we can keep building a government and economy that works for working-class people rather than billionaires?

No worker should be exploited, retaliated against, or denied benefits—especially for organizing for better working conditions and a better quality of life.

Alexandra is co-sponsoring legislation I just re-introduced to secure rights for restaurant workers—which would protect the right to unionize without fear of retaliation, raise the $2.13/hour federal tipped minimum wage to a livable wage, ensure paid leave and healthcare coverage, and more.

I’ve been proud to join AOC’s fight for a Green New Deal to expand good union jobs. And AOC was by my side when I led legislation to tax big corporations that pay their CEOs and other top executives at least 50 times more than they pay an average worker. That disparity is what we’re seeing with the Big Three automakers, where CEOs are making about 365 times the pay of their average employee.

While the rich keep getting richer, workers are struggling to put food on the table and stay in their homes. This system is unjust, but we’re building the power needed to change it.

Will you split an end-of-quarter contribution of $5 or more between my and AOC’s re-election campaigns so we can keep pushing for bold policies to protect workers’ rights and fight back against corporate greed?

If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your secure donation will go through immediately, split evenly between Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Thank you so much.

In solidarity,

Rashida