'Why don't poor people get meetings in the Oval Office instead of corporations?' asked RevDrBarber.
, Barber noted that"our nation is experiencing a historic wave of labor uprisings led by the workers who are demanding that the value of their work be represented in their pay, their working conditions, and in our nation's laws."
"The widespread worker-led actions we are witnessing in America today are alarm bells that should force the nation to pay attention to the economic emergency that includes everything from the lack of a federally mandated living wage to the devastating impact of Covid on poor and low-wealth communities," said Barber.
"It is time for the president to act on his pre-election promise to address poverty," he added."More jobs alone, with a $7.25 per hour federal minimum wage, equal more poverty. This is why labor unions are joining our call to the president to use his power to lift the voices of impacted people and to act now."
Dozens of unions representing millions of working people—including the AFL-CIO; American Federation of Teachers; American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees; American Postal Workers Union; Association of Flight Attendants; Communications Workers of America; National Education Association, Service Employees International Union; UNITE HERE; United Steelworkers; United Food and Commercial Workers Union; and United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America—recently...
SEIU president Mary Kay Henry, AFSCME president Lee Saunders, and Keturah Johnson, international vice president of AFA-CWA, echoed that message on Monday.
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