Legislative Alert
Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee Expressing Concerns About an Appropriations Bill That Underfunds Programs That Serve Millions of Working People
… Dear Chairman Cochran and Vice Chairwoman Mikulski: On behalf of the AFL-CIO, I am writing to express our strong opposition to the 2016 Department of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (Labor-HHS) … fund these vital programs. Congress should support policies that will help our economy grow, will raise wages, and will work for all people—not just the affluent. Accomplishing this task would have required passing a budget that eliminated the … and capricious and depresses wages; eliminating the definition of corresponding employment which will deny US workers the right to receive the same pay and benefits offered to H-2B workers; eliminating the three-fourths guarantee which will …