America's Workers

"By amending the QDIA safe harbor, the LIFE Act will encourage more employers to adopt annuities as part of their default offering so that more Americans will be able to transition seamlessly from saving for retirement to benefitting from a guaranteed income stream when they retire."

"This is about creating the next generation of worker for the offshore wind industry," Norcross said after the ceremony. "New Jersey will have the largest offshore wind manufacturing plant in the country. What does that mean for our constituents? Jobs, clean energy, affordable energy."

"It's about jobs and a career; it's about education and it's about security," Norcross said. "Imagine the world today 20 years from now and what our economy is going to look like based on clean power. It's about giving opportunities to kids who want to go to school and succeed, whether you're a welder or an engineer."

Starbucks Workers United has asked Schultz to sign onto the group's "Fair Election Principles" asking for non-interference during the union campaign. Labor Caucus co-chair Rep. Donald Norcross (D-New Jersey) echoed that appeal in the press call on Wednesday. "Howard, do the right thing here," Norcross said. "Give these workers a voice."

Rep. Donald Norcross, a New Jersey Democrat and longtime member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, said it is "fundamentally wrong" that Starbucks is allowed to legally discourage organizing under federal labor law.

"That 80% of Americans say we should stop buying Russian oil in the name of defending democracy proves the depth of our support for the Ukrainian people," U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross, D-Camden, said in a statement last week calling on both the state and federal governments to suspend gas taxes.

While "we support our friends in Ukraine in their fight for freedom," he said, "we must also act to protect the pocketbooks of working-and-middle-class families here at home."

FIRST IN SHIFT: Members of the House's Labor Caucus are scheduled to meet Wednesday with representatives of the Starbucks unionization effort. Among the expected attendees is Jaz Brisack, the Rhodes scholar and Western New York barista who has become a prominent voice of the organizing push.