America's Workers
Our national workforce keeps our country running and provides invaluable services we often take for granted. Nobody should have to work multiple jobs or extraordinary hours to provide for their family, save for retirement or feel financially secure. As an electrician by trade, I know the best social program in the world is a job and I believe every worker must have an opportunity to succeed, which starts with fair pay. Women have made great strides in history, but it’s time they receive equal pay for equal work and the opportunity to maintain a work and family balance. We need to ensure working families have fair wages, safe working conditions, and a voice in the workplace.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-1) will join House Committee on Education and Labor Chairman Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03), Congresswoman Haley Stevens (MI-11) and Congressman Joe Morelle (NY-25) to introduce legislation to shield workers, retirees, employers and taxpayers from the devastating consequences of the multiemployer pension crisis.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, the Labor Caucus, led by Co-Chairs Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Steven Horsford (D-NV), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Mark Pocan (D-WI) Linda Sánchez (D-CA), and Tom Suozzi (D-NY), held a kick-off event with members and special guests, including President of the AFL-CIO Richard Trumka and President of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Randi Weingarten.
PAULSBORO, NJ – Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) joined New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy alongside EEW, Ørsted, legislators and members of the building trades, today to announce a $250 million investment in a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility to build steel components, known as monopiles, for offshore wind turbines that will serve the entire United States offshore wind industry.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) voted today to pass H.R. 133, Omnibus Appropriations and Emergency Coronavirus Relief Package, which includes $900 billion in federal relief to help Americans respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representatives Donald Norcross, (NJ-01) and David McKinley P.E. (R-W.Va.) and U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) celebrated the House passage of the National Apprenticeship Act of 2020. The bill, which includes their bipartisan and bicameral Apprenticeship Hubs Across America Act, will invest more than $3.5 billion to create nearly one million new apprenticeship opportunities over the next five years.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) applauded the passage of the National Apprenticeship Act of 2020 through the House of Representatives. The legislation invests more than $3.5 billion to create nearly one million new apprenticeship opportunities over the next five years. Norcross is a lead sponsor and author of the bill along with his fellow House Education in Labor Committee members Congresswoman Susan Davis (CA-53) and Chairman Bobby Scott (VA-03).
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) and Congressman Andy Kim (NJ-03) introduced H.R. 8762, the Fast Track Advanced Apprenticeships Now Act, a bill that would cut bureaucratic red tape to allow apprenticeship programs for emerging occupations to be approved faster.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressmen Donald Norcross (D-NJ) and Mark Pocan (D-WI) are leading a letter this week to Congressional leadership requesting they include funding for key federal programs that implement and enforce worker safety measures, protect workers' rights to organize, and provide access to employer and employee training – especially registered apprenticeships – in any final appropriations package for the 2021 fiscal year.
CAMDEN, NJ – On Thursday, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) joined American Training Center, Cooper University Health Care and New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development officials virtually to celebrate National Apprenticeship Week and the induction of the first Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) Apprenticeship class in South Jersey.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressmen Donald Norcross (D-NJ) and Mark Pocan (D-WI) are announcing the creation of the Labor Caucus, intended to advance the needs of the labor movement, combat the issues facing working families and connect legislators directly with unions and union leaders. The new caucus will be organized by union members of Congress — Representatives Norcross and Pocan are both decades-long union members in the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers and International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, respectively.