Target: Robert Aderholt, Chair of United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Goal: Expand growth opportunities for America’s laborers.
Over 3,000 protests are expected on May Day, or International Workers’ Day. The most recent labor movements, billed as “Workers Over Billionaires” and “May Day Strong,” will involve walk-outs, marches, strikes, boycotts, and other forms of peaceful resistance for laborers across the country and across the world who increasingly feel left behind. The rallies will call attention to disparities that include a widening income gap between upper and middle or lower classes and a soaring cost of living.
May Day, which has long been celebrated as a day of renewal, became inextricably linked to workers’ rights in 1886, when ancestors by the hundreds of thousands fought for an eight-hour workday. By the time the nationwide strikes had ended, lives had been lost, but change was on the way. Modern workers want to carry on this tradition and achieve fairness for all employees.
Sign the petition below to support their cause.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Representative Aderholt,
Whether it’s called the Workers’ Bill of Rights or the Affordability Agenda, laborers across America have united behind a new plan that puts their needs first. Top objectives include an increase in the minimum wage laws that have remained stagnant at the federal level for far too long, even as costs of living continue to rise. Initiatives that could boost affordability for working families, such as universal childcare, paid leave, and expanded food and housing assistance, remain stagnant. In contrast, laws intended to shield employees from discrimination or from unsafe working conditions are routinely stripped away. All the while, taxation of powerful corporations and predatory business practices is rolled back.
The people are appealing to their elected representatives to fight for fairness and to fight for them. Take stalled legislation like the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights Act and use these policies as a template to build – block by block and initiative by initiative, if necessary – a new watershed moment in America’s labor rights movement.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
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