The Senate Needs to Hear From You

An increase in the federal minimum wage would give 13 million American workers a long-deserved raise. Tell your Senator to pass a “clean” bill. Read more...

No worker in this country deserves to be harassed on the job, herded around by armed federal agents, and detained miles away from their homes and families without representation just for showing up to work. Read more...

Lessons from the Goya Workers’ Drive for Justice

Workers should have the freedom to form a union without management interference, but that’s not what happened at Goya Foods in Miami. Bruce Raynor recounts the Goya workers’ eight-year struggle to win union representation within a broken and unfair system, and how the Employee Free Choice Act would protect workers’ free choice, improve jobs and stop employer intimidation. Read more...

Health care coverage is an essential part of the American Dream, yet workers rank not being able to afford it and fear of losing benefits as top concerns they worry about most. That’s why Change to Win proposed comprehensive solutions for our nation’s broken health care system. Read more...

Meet Narciso Roman Perez -- a port truck driver from Long Beach, California who is fighting for better jobs and a cleaner environment.  Read more...

Sarah Pastorelli is a janitor united in SEIU Local 32BJ in Hartford, CT, and one of the thousands of union members from across the country who stood up for their striking brothers and sisters in Houston, TX and helped their counterparts in the South win a good contract with health care and decent wages. Read more...

For Laborers Local 79 member and Shop Steward Wesley Autrey, the heroic decision to jump down onto the New York City subway tracks on January 2 and save a man suffering from a seizure has made him an instant hero and celebrity. Read more...

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