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 House Education and the Workforce Committee - hosted a summit on Women in the Workforce in Haddonfield, NJ. The summit preceded an anti-choice debate that is forthcoming next week in the House of Representatives to deny medical care to women in desperate circumstances (H.R. 36).
The summit focused on policies that support and empower women in the workforce.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) issued the following statement on the Ryan-McConnell-Trump tax plan:
"Americans want more jobs, higher wages and tax relief. But instead of focusing on working families, the Republican tax reform plan is just another giveaway to billionaires and huge corporations. It fails the President's own 'Trump Test' to not benefit the wealthy.
Target Raises Minimum Wage to $11, Pledges $15 by 2020
DOL Announces Increase to $10.35 for Government Contractors
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) – member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce – announced he will serve in a leadership role in the House Democratic Caucus Jobs for America task forces, a unified effort from the House Democratic Caucus to craft a legislative agenda that will benefit hardworking Americans. Norcross will serve as co-chair for the Rebuilding America Task Force.
DELAWARE COUNTY, PA – Congressmen Donald Norcross (D-NJ) and Patrick Meehan (R-PA) today joined area labor leaders to call on Congress to pass legislation the lawmakers authored that will make apprenticeships more affordable for individuals seeking a skills-based education.
PENNSAUKEN, NJ - Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) - an electrician by trade and a member of the House Education and Workforce Committee - announced the Peter J. McGuire Labor Day Landmark Act that designates the Peter J. McGuire Memorial and Gravesite located in Pennsauken, New Jersey, as a National Historic Landmark.
CHERRY HILL, NJ – Today, on the day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) formally begins, Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), issued the following statement:
"NAFTA must first and foremost benefit American workers. The Trump Administration can accomplish that goal by having an open and transparent process and that includes the voices of working people.
The New York Times. By Nick Corasaniti
CAMDEN, N.J. — The three Democratic congressmen sat at one end of a long, rectangular table that extended nearly the length of the Teamsters hall here, surrounded by about 50 union leaders, members and local residents offering a mix of praise, complaints and political strategy...
The New York Times. By Nick Corasaniti
...Mr. Norcross argued that some of the demands within his party for uncompromising legislative positions has left Democrats on the wrong side of the jobs argument.
..."It's not yes to everything environmental, no to everything with jobs," he said. "It's a matter of working those together to try to move them forward."
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, eight years after the last federal minimum wage increase, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) - a member of the House Education and Workforce Committee and an electrician by trade - called on Congress to raise the federal minimum wage at a news conference with a bicameral group of lawmakers and low-wage workers.