Title: Urging solidarity with working people fighting for adequate pay, quality retirement benefits, and safe working conditions.
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
This resolution expresses support for workers engaging in collective action with respect to wages, retirement benefits, and safe working conditions.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 752 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 752

   Urging solidarity with working people fighting for adequate pay, 
       quality retirement benefits, and safe working conditions.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 28, 2021

 Mr. Norcross (for himself, Mrs. Dingell, Ms. Sanchez, Mr. Pocan, Mr. 
Horsford, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Mr. Takano, Mr. Pallone, 
Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Norton, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Lowenthal, 
    Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Bowman, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Ms. 
 Bonamici, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Courtney, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Jones, 
  Mr. Payne, Mr. Morelle, Ms. Titus, Mr. Lieu, Ms. Meng, Mr. Levin of 
  Michigan, Mrs. Lawrence, and Ms. Barragan) submitted the following 
 resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Urging solidarity with working people fighting for adequate pay, 
       quality retirement benefits, and safe working conditions.

Whereas average CEO pay in the United States has increased by 18.9 percent over 
        the course of the pandemic, nearly five times as fast as the average 
        worker who remained employed;
Whereas the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio increased from 21-to-1 in 1965 to 
        351-to-1 in 2020, and income inequality continues to rise;
Whereas strikes are used as a last resort for workers who have exhausted all 
        other options to achieve safe working conditions, quality benefits, and 
        family-sustaining pay;
Whereas, as a result of inadequate compensation, benefits, and workplace safety 
        measures, workers have engaged in unprecedented labor activity, 
        culminating in over 100,000 workers in October 2021 engaging in actions 
        such as walkouts, strikes, mobilization efforts, and union drives;
Whereas 60,000 members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage 
        Employees across the country recently reached a landmark tentative deal 
        after voting to authorize a strike if their demands had not been met;
Whereas tens of thousands of members of National Nurses United recently won 
        significant wage and benefit increases and health and safety 
        protections, including at some hospitals where more than 4,000 nurses 
        went on strike;
Whereas 10,000 members of the United Auto Workers in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, 
        Colorado, and Georgia went on strike;
Whereas 2,000 members of the Communications Workers of America in New York 
        recently went on strike;
Whereas 1,400 members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain 
        Millers International Union in Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, and 
        Tennessee recently went on strike;
Whereas 1,000 members of the United Mine Workers in Alabama went on strike;
Whereas hundreds of members of the United Steelworkers and the International 
        Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in West Virginia 
        recently went on strike;
Whereas dozens of AFSCME members providing behavioral health services in New 
        Jersey recently went on strike;
Whereas dozens of members of the Ironworkers in Pennsylvania recently went on 
        strike;
Whereas thousands of United Steelworkers members across the country recently 
        voted to authorize a strike, 5,000 members are on strike, and hundreds 
        are locked out of their job site as they demand better wages and 
        benefits;
Whereas workers for major corporations are organizing union drives at their 
        stores and warehouses;
Whereas workers for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 
        Virginia are working to secure a new contract but have been locked out 
        of their job site;
Whereas workers in California are organizing to unionize with the International 
        Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers to 
        improve well-documented health and safety issues at their workplace;
Whereas cultural workers in museums and libraries in Illinois, California, 
        Pennsylvania, Maryland, Minnesota, and other States across the country 
        are organizing with AFSCME;
Whereas 10,000 members of UNITE HERE across the country are engaging in marches, 
        strikes, pickets, rallies, a unionization vote, and a strike 
        authorization vote;
Whereas numerous members of other labor unions and organizations across the 
        country are engaging in walkouts, strikes, mobilization efforts, and 
        union drives;
Whereas the surge in strike activity is supported by 74 percent of Americans;
Whereas union workers earn wages that are 11.2 percent higher than non-union 
        workers on average and are more likely to have access to paid sick leave 
        and health benefits than nonunionized workers;
Whereas women union members generally earn more than their non-union peers;
Whereas more than 60 million American workers--over half of the entire non-
        unionized workforce in the United States--would vote to join a union if 
        they could; and
Whereas 68 percent of Americans support labor unions, a 56-year high: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved,  That the United States House of Representatives stands 
with the brave workers who have collectively raised their voices on the 
job to demand to be valued with adequate pay, quality retirement 
benefits, and safe working conditions and will intend to support their 
efforts by passing pro-worker legislation.
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