John,

This Labor Day, I want to lift up and honor the workers who’ve been striking and organizing for better working conditions, securing rights for all of us.

My family received healthcare for the first time when my father joined the United Auto Workers union, so I know how labor rights can transform families and communities.

I’ve been proud to join striking workers on picket lines who are rising up for safe working conditions, living wages, better benefits, and human dignity. The American people are with us: New polling shows that 70% of Americans support unions. Last year, the number of striking workers more than doubled, including autoworkers at a number of corporations across the country who won historic victories.

Now the fight is on to enforce these new contracts. In my district, Stellantis (which owns Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge, and more) is failing to uphold its contract with the UAW and instead raising its CEO’s salary by 56%. In addition to exploiting workers, the corporation continues to pollute and poison my neighbors. UAW may strike again to secure needed changes.

We also need to push back against corporations’ union-busting and far-right leaders who are trying to weaken workers’ rights. After Trump appointed three justices to the Supreme Court, the right-wing majority of Justices stood with Starbucks this summer after it illegally fired pro-union workers. Soon after, Trump celebrated billionaire Elon Musk’s illegal actions to fire workers who were organizing for better conditions. In response, the United Auto Workers (UAW) filed an unfair labor practice charge against Musk.

We must defeat Trump in this November’s elections and we must pass legislation to build an economy that works for everyone, not just the millionaires and billionaires.

This Labor Day, please add your name to support two policies that would help workers and hold greedy CEOs accountable: the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which would hold corporations accountable for worker intimidation and expand workers’ rights to fight for safety and fairness in the workplace, and the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act, which would tax corporations if they pay their CEOs over 50 times their median worker pay.

For too long, our economy has been rigged to serve those at the top. Billionaires and CEOs keep getting richer—at the expense of the rest of us.

CEOs are now making 400 times more than their average worker. That’s why I helped reintroduce the Tax Excessive CEO Pay Act with colleagues in Congress this year. If passed, the bill would incentivize a narrower pay gap between CEOs and employees, with a higher tax rate for wider pay gaps. This would generate billions in revenue, which could be used to support working families around the country.

I’m also a proud co-sponsor of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. When the U.S. House of Representatives previously passed the PRO Act, the bill included my amendment to help eliminate employer stall tactics in contract arbitration and deliver union workers their rights more expeditiously.

If passed, the PRO Act would:

• Ensure the enforceability of our labor laws and enhance support for worker strikes and boycotts.

• Protect undocumented workers and gig workers.

• Repeal so-called “right to work” laws that have decimated unions in dozens of states.

• Penalize employers that interfere with their employees’ organizing efforts.

• Make explicitly clear that employers cannot interfere with employee unionization voting procedures.

Please sign on to support pro-worker legislation this Labor Day.

Thank you for taking action to stand with workers today. Unions are an essential part of our progressive movement, demanding human dignity across borders. The UAW and other major unions representing millions of Americans have also continued to call for a ceasefire and an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.

Together, we’ll keep building a society where everyone can thrive.

In solidarity,

Rashida