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 – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) – a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 351 – voted yes today to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, in which he is an original co-sponsor. The PRO Act, which was introduced by Chairman Bobby Scott (VA-03) of the House Committee on Education and Labor, is the most significant upgrade to U.S. labor law in 80 years and is a direct response to the struggle that many hardworking families are facing. The PRO Act passed the House with bipartisan support.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Donald Norcross today sent a letter to the leaders of the New Jersey Legislature in opposition to S.3607, a bill that would allow planned minimum wage increases to be delayed and which is slated to be considered by the Senate Labor Committee on Thursday.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) and Members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus today sent a bipartisan letter, signed by 87 members of the House of Representatives, to bicameral leadership urging the inclusion of retroactive compensation for federal contractors affected by the 2018-2019 government shutdown in any year-end spending deal.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) – a member of the House Committee on Education and Labor and an electrician by trade – today issued the following statement after the Trump Administration's Department of Labor (DOL) published a final rule regarding the overtime salary threshold, providing less overtime pay to fewer people than the proposal advanced by the Obama Administration:
CHERRY HILL, NJ - As working families start off the new school year juggling fulltime jobs and fulltime academics, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), New Jersey Policy Perspective and the Anti-Poverty Network of New Jersey called on Congress to pass the Working Families Tax Relief Act, H.R. 3157, of which Norcross is a co-sponsor. The Act increases the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC).
Courier Post Opinion Editorial.
By Donald Norcross
Labor Day is the one day every year solely dedicated to America's workers – but it certainly doesn't mean it's the only day that we should be standing up for the men and women who power our economy.
My top priority in Congress is fighting for working families and, for me, that fight includes more than visiting job sites for photo ops. In just the past few months, I've voted to raise the federal minimum wage, move the needle on equal pay for women and help protect pensions.
South Jersey Times Opinion Editorial.
By Donald Norcross
Any trade deal must first and foremost benefit American workers. Yet, unfortunately, since 1993, our country's workforce has suffered because of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Some sources say almost 1 million American jobs were lost since NAFTA went into effect, although estimates of net job impacts vary greatly. Every week, more jobs are being outsourced to Mexico. In South Jersey alone we're down 20,000 manufacturing jobs, which is simply unacceptable.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross, a leader on retirement security in Congress, cheered the bipartisan House passage of H.R. 397, the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act. The Act - commonly called "The Butch Lewis Act" - addresses the nation's worsening multiemployer pension crisis and Norcross called for his colleagues to support workers ahead of the vote.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross - a former minimum-wage worker and member of the House Committee on Education and Labor - voted in favor of the Raise the Wage Act, of which he is a lead sponsor. After more than 10 years without an increase in the federal minimum wage - the longest stretch in history - fulltime working Americans have been suffering. If the Raise the Wage Act becomes law, minimum-wage workers would see an increase to $15 an hour gradually by 2025.
New Jersey State AFL-CIO
...Today, the House passed the Raise the Wage Act, a bill that would gradually raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2025. If the Raise the Wage Act becomes law, American workers would see the first federal minimum wage increase in more than 10 years.