The groups, including NARAL Pro-Choice America, Ultraviolet, Public Citizen, and the Women’s March, said that creating a $15 minimum wage and eliminating “subminimum wages” for tipped workers would be a start toward ensuring economic equality through wage justice.
“The simple truth is that women, especially Black women, Latina women, Asian American and Pacific Islander women, and Indigenous women, have suffered the worst impacts of the pandemic, and they need to be lifted up in the solutions and relief you draft and ultimately pass in Congress,” they wrote. “If we are to truly build back better, we must build an economy that works for women.”
Who’s new in the Michigan House of Representatives
Updated Jan 05, 2021;
Posted Jan 05, 2021
The House Chamber pictured at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing on Thursday, April 25, 2019.Neil Blake
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The new legislative session brings with it substantial turnover for the Michigan House of Representatives, which will have 28 new lawmakers serving their first full terms in office.
Most of the freshman class will fill House seats vacated by members who hit their six-year term limit serving in the state House, although some defeated incumbents or are replacing members who sought other offices last fall.
Speaker-elect Jason Wentworth, R-Clare, and Democratic Leader-elect Donna Lasinski, D-Scio Township, will fill the leadership slots left open by the departures of former Reps. Lee Chatfield and Christine Greig.
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Georgia runoffs are ground zero for workers and their allies December 14, 2020 11:37 AM CDT By Mark Gruenberg
Lee Saunders, president of AFSCME says his union is making a major effort in Georgia, aiming to take control of the Senate away from GOP Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. | afscme.org
It’s too bad Ray Charles, Hoagy Carmichael, and Stuart Gorrell aren’t with us anymore. Their song, “Georgia On My Mind” is a perfect description of the Peach State’s role as ground zero for control of the U.S. Senate in the next Congress a vital issue to workers nationwide.
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Boilermakers:
As Christmas approaches, #Boilermakers from @146Lodge are still getting Scrooged by #CESSCO. Here s the latest: https://t.co/pGIpxzedzu
Bricklayers:
President-elect Biden needs a Congress that he can work with to help enact pro-labor legislation. Sign up to make calls for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock tomorrow from 6-8pm. https://t.co/AO6B9ELoOs Bricklayers Union (@IUBAC) December 10, 2020
California School Employees Association:
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