LEADER JEFFRIES STATEMENT ON LABOR DAY

Brooklyn, NY — Today, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries released the following statement in observance of Labor Day:

Each year on Labor Day we celebrate the American workers who are the backbone of our economy and the unions that empower and protect them. The organized labor movement decisively helped to build our country, expand the middle class, give us overtime pay and a 40-hour work week, ensure we have weekends to spend time with our families and is at the center of the American dream. In our great country if you work hard and play by the rules, you should be able to provide a comfortable living for yourself and your family. That is at the core of the organized labor movement. 

While President Biden and House Democrats continue to grow the economy from the middle out and the bottom up, extreme MAGA Republicans have embraced a failed policy of trickle-down economics. For everyday Americans, this means that you may get a trickle, but you're guaranteed to stay down. Under the leadership of President Biden we will continue to create good-paying union jobs, grow the middle class and stand side by side with organized labor so that every family can have a fair shot at the American dream.