Tag: Heroes Act
YOUR LETTERS: Demand our senators act now for relief help
Daily coronavirus cases in the United States are soaring, and millions of Americans are unemployed through no fault of their own.
Voters turned out in...
Teachers (AFT) Local 420 hold pop-up protest demanding Senate pass the...
As part of a nationwide protest on school funding and safe schools during the pandemic, members of AFT St. Louis Local 420, held a...
Hospitality/food service workers don’t know when they’ll be going back to...
By TIM ROWDEN
Managing Editor
As Congress fumbled the latest version of a COVID-19 economic relief package, hundreds of thousands of laid-off hospitality and food service...
Hospitality/food service workers don’t know when they’ll be going back to...
Last Friday, hundreds of thousands of laid-off hospitality and food service workers received their final check of $600/week in federal unemployment insurance.
While some parts...
AFT’s Weingarten: Tell the Senate to pass the HEROES Act
By RANDI WEINGARTEN
President
American Federation of Teachers
All over the country, parents are wondering if schools will open this fall and agonizing over whether it is...
Postal Workers car caravan delivers two million names on ‘Save the...
By MARK GRUENBERG
PAI Staff Writer
Washington (PAI) — Snaking its way from the Washington Navy Yard to the U.S. Senate, a caravan of cars driven...
Workers caravan past Rep. Ann Wagner’s office calling for passage of...
Demand lawmakers put workers first in pandemic relief efforts
By TIM ROWDEN
Editor
Dozens of Missouri’s union workers honked their way past Republican Congresswoman Ann Wagner’s office...
OPINION: America’s Five Economic Essentials
From the AFL-CIO
America’s workers — in the private and public sectors — have been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, for too many...
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...
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...