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WASHINGTON – In a joint statement issued today, Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Katherine Clark (MA-05) and Lori Trahan (MA-03), along with Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Edward J. Markey (D-MA), are calling on Harvard University to reinstate the emergency COVID-19 worker protections to their contracted workforce that their full-time employees enjoy.
WASHINGTON – In an op-ed published this weekend in CommonWealth Magazine, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Tim Foley, Vice President of SEIU 1199, called on business leaders in Massachusetts to abandon the anti-union practices that disproportionately harm Black workers, and instead protect their livelihoods and the right to organize.
WASHINGTON – In a House Financial Services Committee hearing yesterday, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) discussed the unprecedented financial cliff facing millions of renters and homeowners, the economic consequences of millions losing their homes, including the ability to return to work, and why funding for legal representation is so critical.
A full transcript of her remarks and exchange with witnesses is available below.
WASHINGTON — Today, Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Haley Stevens (MI-11) led a group of 17 freshman Members of Congress calling on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to expand paid family and medical leave as Senate negotiations begin on the next emergency relief package.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) and Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, along with U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced the PAID Leave Act (Providing Americans Insured Days of Leave Act).
WASHINGTON - Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Representatives Jesús “Chuy” Garcia (IL-04), Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), and Steve Cohen (TN-09) urged leaders in the House and Senate to include protections for workers and consumers in any financial assistance aimed at supporting the airline industry as part of further economic stimulus to mitigate the impact of COVID-19.
