Promises Made, Promises Kept!
- Congress and President Biden passed the American Rescue Plan (ARP) with includes unprecedented investments that keep you safer at work and put money in your pocket. The ARP includes:
- Money for state and local governments to provide hazard pay, childcare, and PPE for essential workers.
- Money for COVID-19 testing, vaccines, and treatment.
- Direct cash payments of $1400 and more money for food stamps which means less hunger and more money spent at grocery stores.
- Money to ensure that our pensions are secure and tax cuts for families with children.
- Biden Administration withdrew regulations that allowed poultry plants to run at unlimited speeds.
- President Biden issued a “Buy America” executive order directing federal dollars to suppliers that treat workers with dignity and respect.
- Senators Booker and Representative Khanna introduced the Protecting America’s Meatpacking Workers Act which provides essential protections to meatpacking workers.
- The House Select Committee on Coronavirus Crisis issued an eye opening report on meatpacking worker safetyand held a hearing featuring UFCW members.
- Congress passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which will invest in good-paying union jobs that strengthen our economy and support millions of working families.
- The USDA created a COVID relief program for frontline food workers. The $700 million USDA Farm and Food Workers Relief (FFWR) grant program will help meatpacking workers and farmworkers with COVID health and safety costs. Additionally, to recognize the essential role and costs borne by frontline grocery workers, $20 million of this amount has been set aside for at least one pilot program to support grocery workers and test options for reaching them in the future.
- The Biden Administration for announcing their support for reclassifying the millions of gig workers as employees at companies like Instacart, DoorDash, Uber, and Lyft who have been on the frontlines of the pandemic helping families access the food and transportation they need.
- Pro-worker nominees at Labor, USTR, Justice, NLRB, DHS and federal judgeships.