[1]Pramila Jayapal

Happy Labor
Day! Today and every day, I'm proud to honor, celebrate, and fight for
working people across America.

Without organized labor, we wouldn't have the weekend, overtime pay,
workplace safety rules, and child labor laws — and that’s just scratching
the surface.

But as someone who organized on the ground for working people and true
economic justice long before coming to Congress, I know that America still
has a long way to go to guarantee that every worker has a living wage and
a fair and safe workplace where they are treated with dignity.

Here are two issues heavy on my mind today:

 1. If there were ever a time to #RaiseTheWage after 12 long years, it’s
NOW. It has taken a tremendous amount of organizing to get to where we
are today on raising the minimum wage — I will be the first one to
tell you that.

But victory is possible. I’ve organized for years in the Fight for
$15. In 2014, I pushed to make Seattle the first major city in the
country to pass a $15 minimum wage. Since then, cities and states
across this country have followed our lead. Twenty states just raised
their minimum wage going into 2021 — including Florida, while voting
for Donald Trump.

We have an opportunity to get this done across America by passing the
Raise the Wage Act, which would increase pay for 32 million workers
while lifting one million out of poverty. At a time when full-time,
minimum-wage workers can no longer afford a two-bedroom rental
anywhere in the entire country, our action is necessary — and I’m
dedicated to making it happen.
 2. The PRO Act is our best shot in a generation at transforming the
workplace and putting workers back on a path toward dignity and shared
prosperity. The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act is a
transformative bill that, if passed, will empower workers to form
unions and bargain for better wages and working conditions, hold
corporations accountable for union-busting, and repeal so-called
“right to work” laws.

I was proud to lead the House in passing the PRO Act. Now it’s the
Senate’s turn, and I won’t stop fighting until this bill reaches
President Biden’s desk.



So it’s
clear: We owe so much to the activists and organizers who earned the
rights we have today and who continue to fight for working people
everywhere. [ [link removed] ]If you’re with me in the fight for a $15 minimum wage and
the PRO Act, chip in $3 or any amount today to power our
movement forward for working people.

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In solidarity, 

Pramila


 


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