Tag: Congress
Omnibus funding package includes several key Labor priorities
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor-in-Chief
The $1.7 trillion Consolidated Appropriations Act approved by Congress on Dec. 23 includes $25 million in new funding for the National Labor...
Heroes Act protects and compensates essential workers, but Senate Republicans are...
The HEROES Act, a COVID-19 relief bill, introduced by Congressional Democrats and passed by the House, would provide compensation and critical health and safety...
6 things Congress can do to protect frontline government workers
As the number of Covid-19 cases climbs and lawmakers are drafting legislation in response to the outbreak, there are a number of things members...
Urge Congress to pass the HEROES Act to protect and compensate...
The Heroes Act is an important next step in our country’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, providing compensation and critical health and safety protections...
Congress needs to pass emergency legislation at the scale and urgency...
By WILLIAM SAMUEL
Director
AFL-CIO Government Affairs
In response to the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the Labor Movement is mobilizing to protect our members who are...
Dems push overtime pay for more workers
Washington (PAI) — Saying they want “to give millions of middle-class workers the overtime protections they deserve,” four top congressional Democrats whose committees handle...
YOUR LETTERS: Congress must pass bill to protect workers’ pensions
A bipartisan bill in the U.S. House of Representatives is providing a vehicle to help Teamsters, retirees and other union members who paid into...
Trumka calls on lawmakers to strengthen labor laws through Protecting the...
Washington – AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka (UMWA) testified before the House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions May 8, calling...
AFGE echoes lawmakers’ call to reject cuts to federal worker pay,...
‘Federal employees and retirees have already done their part,’ lawmakers say
Washington – The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the largest union representing federal...