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April 15, 2020 Letter to Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, and Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader - Baldwin Leads Call for Emergency OSHA Standard to Protect Essential Workers in COVID-19 Response Legislation Sen. Jack Reed, ...
April 10, 2020 Reed Backs $25,000 Hazard-Pay Increase for Essential Frontline Workers Sen. Jack Reed
April 7, 2020 Letter to Steven Mnuchin, Sec. of the Treasury - U.S. Senator Tina Smith to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin: Make Sure Americans Experiencing Homelessness Get Coronavirus Relief Payments Sen. Jack Reed, ...
April 7, 2020 Letter to Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor - Baldwin, Democratic Colleagues Press Trump Administration on Unemployment Benefits Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
April 3, 2020 Whitehouse Office Available to Assist RI Small Business with SBA Loans Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
April 2, 2020 Reed: Trump Administration Must Expedite Unemployment Insurance Updates to Help Eligible People Access Benefits Sen. Jack Reed
March 22, 2020 Whitehouse Statement on Coronavirus Package Procedural Vote Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
March 19, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of the Dept. of Labor - Van Hollen, Hassan, Colleagues Urge Department of Labor to Provide Support for Workers Who Experience Disabilities During COVID-19 Pandemic Sen. Jack Reed, ...
March 18, 2020 Letter to the President - Reed: Invoking the Defense Production Act a Needed Step to Ramp Up Domestic Production of Life-Saving Medical Supplies Sen. Jack Reed
March 16, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States - Durbin, Duckworth, Colleagues Urge President Trump To Immediately Maximize Telework For Federal Employees Sen. Jack Reed, ...
March 12, 2020 Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions Sen. Jack Reed
March 10, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Labor - CORONAVIRUS: Murray, Democrats Push Scalia to Advocate for Workers, Question DOL's Absence from Task Force Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
March 5, 2020 U.S. Senators Call on Employers to Offer Workers Flexibility in The Event of Widespread Coronavirus Outbreak Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
March 4, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Mark Esper, Secretary of the United States Department of Defense - U.S. Senator Tina Smith & Democratic Senate Colleagues Defend Right of Department of Defense Civilian Workers to Engage in Collective Bargaining Sen. Jack Reed, ...
Feb. 19, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Labor - Van Hollen, Murray, Democrats Push Departments of Education and Labor to Withdraw Rules Allowing for Federally Sanctioned Discrimination Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
Feb. 19, 2020 Letter to Dale Cabaniss, Dir. of the Office of Personnel Management - Warren, Markey, Whitehouse, Reed Urge Correction of Cost-of-Living Pay Disparities for Federal Employees Living in Southern Massachusetts and Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
Dec. 9, 2019 Letter to Andrew Saul, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration - Cardin, Senators Defend Social Security Workers, Urge Reversal of Abrupt Cancellation of Telework Sen. Jack Reed, ...
Nov. 19, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor - Brown, Baldwin Lead Senators Urging Labor Secretary to Establish Workplace Heat Safety Standards, As Workers Are Increasingly Impacted By Climate Change Sen. Jack Reed, ...
Nov. 19, 2019 Letter to Kirk Davis, CEO of GateHouse Media, and Paul Bascobert, President and CEO of Gannett CO., Inc. - Baldwin, Brown, Menendez lead Senators Urging Media Companies to Recognize Workers' Unions Sen. Jack Reed, ...
Nov. 12, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Janet Dhillon, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Senator Murray, 28 Democrats Oppose EEOC Decision to Stop Collecting Data Needed to Combat Wage Discrimination Sen. Jack Reed, ...
Oct. 22, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Andrew Wheeler, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Menendez, Booker Press EPA on Abrupt End to Contract Negotiations with Employee Union Sen. Jack Reed, ...
Aug. 27, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Patrick Pizzella, Acting Secretary, Department of Labor - U.S. Senator Tina Smith, Democratic Colleagues Fight for Nation's Registered Apprenticeship Program Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
Aug. 26, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Patrick Pizzella, Acting Secretary of the Department of Labor - Harris, Feinstein, Colleagues Oppose Labor Department Proposal to Create Duplicative, Lower-Quality Unregistered Apprenticeships Sen. Jack Reed, ...
Aug. 1, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Durbin, Duckworth Urge VA Secretary To End Anti-Worker, Anti-Union Negotiation Tactics Sen. Jack Reed, ...
July 31, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs - U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin Urges VA Secretary to End Anti-Worker, Anti-Union Tactics Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
July 23, 2019 Letter to Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration - Van Hollen, Cardin Lead Full Democratic Caucus in Urging Social Security Administrator to Respect Employees and Their Unions Sen. Jack Reed, ...
June 27, 2019 One Year Since Janus Decision, Senators Hirono, Stabenow, Whitehouse Release Report on Status of Workers' Rights Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
June 26, 2019 Cortez Masto Cosponsors Legislation to Strengthen Rights of Public Sector Workers to Join Unions, Bargain Collectively Sen. Jack Reed, ...
June 25, 2019 Moulton Joins Reps. Larson, Kennedy, Shalala and Hill to Introduce National Service Plan Sen. Jack Reed, ...
June 18, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Margaret Weichert - Duckworth, Langevin Lead Colleagues In Asking Trump Administration For Information on Hiring Targets, Retention Rates of Federal Employees With Disabilities Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
June 11, 2019 Senators Markey, Carper, Collins, and Whitehouse Introduce Legislation to Expand Offshore Wind Educational and Career Training Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
May 21, 2019 Letter to Secretary Acosta, Secretary of Labor - Brown, Sanders, Murray Lead 20 Senators In Urging Labor Dept To Withdraw Proposed Rule That Would Deny Millions Of Workers Overtime Pay They Have Earned Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
May 1, 2019 Reed Offers Bill to Make Medicare an Affordable Healthcare Option for More Americans Sen. Jack Reed
April 30, 2019 Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions Sen. Jack Reed
March 29, 2019 Inhofe, Whitehouse Introduce Bill to Train Next Generation of Manufacturing Workforce Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
March 25, 2019 Whitehouse Unveils Bill to Train Next Generation of Manufacturing Workforce Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
Jan. 28, 2019 Letter to Margaret Weichert, Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management - Wyden, Bipartisan Group of Senators Urge Administration to Pay Federal Workers Affected by the Shutdown Immediately Sen. Jack Reed, ...
Jan. 25, 2019 Reed Statement on Agreement to End Trump Shutdown Sen. Jack Reed
Jan. 25, 2019 Whitehouse Statement on Deal to End Tump Shutdown Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
Jan. 24, 2019 Reed Votes to End the Shutdown and Enhance Border Security, But Republican Leaders Block Bipartisan Effort to Reopen Government Sen. Jack Reed
Jan. 24, 2019 Whitehouse Statement on Government Funding Votes Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
Jan. 14, 2019 Congressional Delegation Joins Unpaid Federal Employees to Call for End to Trump Shutdown Sen. Jack Reed, ...
Jan. 10, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Russell Vought, Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget - On First Day Employees are Missing Paychecks, Udall & Heinrich Fight to Protect Federal Workers and Contractors Stiffed Out of Pay Due to Trump Shutdown Sen. Jack Reed, ...
Jan. 8, 2019 Whitehouse Statement on President Trump's Immigration Address Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
Oct. 19, 2018 Letter to Mr. James C. Duff, Director of Administrative Office of the United States Courts - Secret, Partisan Judicial Clerk Training Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
June 27, 2018 Whitehouse Statement on SCOTUS Janus Decision Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
June 25, 2018 Whitehouse Unveils New Bill to Help RI Manufacturers Address Workforce Challenges, Support Innovation Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
June 20, 2018 Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions Sen. Jack Reed
June 19, 2018 Letter to President Donald Trump - Call for Repeal of Trump Administration's Civil Service Executive Orders Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
June 14, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Mick Mulvaney, Director of US Office of Management and Budget - Reverse Decision to Stop Collecting Wage Discrimination Data Sen. Jack Reed, ...
Date Title Politician
April 15, 2020 Letter to Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, and Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader - Baldwin Leads Call for Emergency OSHA Standard to Protect Essential Workers in COVID-19 Response Legislation Sen.Jack Reed, ...
April 10, 2020 Reed Backs $25,000 Hazard-Pay Increase for Essential Frontline Workers Sen.Jack Reed
April 7, 2020 Letter to Steven Mnuchin, Sec. of the Treasury - U.S. Senator Tina Smith to Treasury Secretary Mnuchin: Make Sure Americans Experiencing Homelessness Get Coronavirus Relief Payments Sen.Jack Reed, ...
April 7, 2020 Letter to Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor - Baldwin, Democratic Colleagues Press Trump Administration on Unemployment Benefits Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
April 3, 2020 Whitehouse Office Available to Assist RI Small Business with SBA Loans Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse
April 2, 2020 Reed: Trump Administration Must Expedite Unemployment Insurance Updates to Help Eligible People Access Benefits Sen.Jack Reed
March 22, 2020 Whitehouse Statement on Coronavirus Package Procedural Vote Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse
March 19, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of the Dept. of Labor - Van Hollen, Hassan, Colleagues Urge Department of Labor to Provide Support for Workers Who Experience Disabilities During COVID-19 Pandemic Sen.Jack Reed, ...
March 18, 2020 Letter to the President - Reed: Invoking the Defense Production Act a Needed Step to Ramp Up Domestic Production of Life-Saving Medical Supplies Sen.Jack Reed
March 16, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States - Durbin, Duckworth, Colleagues Urge President Trump To Immediately Maximize Telework For Federal Employees Sen.Jack Reed, ...
March 12, 2020 Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions Sen.Jack Reed
March 10, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Labor - CORONAVIRUS: Murray, Democrats Push Scalia to Advocate for Workers, Question DOL's Absence from Task Force Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
March 5, 2020 U.S. Senators Call on Employers to Offer Workers Flexibility in The Event of Widespread Coronavirus Outbreak Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse
March 4, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Mark Esper, Secretary of the United States Department of Defense - U.S. Senator Tina Smith & Democratic Senate Colleagues Defend Right of Department of Defense Civilian Workers to Engage in Collective Bargaining Sen.Jack Reed, ...
Feb. 19, 2020 Letter to the Hon. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of the U.S. Dept. of Labor - Van Hollen, Murray, Democrats Push Departments of Education and Labor to Withdraw Rules Allowing for Federally Sanctioned Discrimination Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
Feb. 19, 2020 Letter to Dale Cabaniss, Dir. of the Office of Personnel Management - Warren, Markey, Whitehouse, Reed Urge Correction of Cost-of-Living Pay Disparities for Federal Employees Living in Southern Massachusetts and Rhode Island Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
Dec. 9, 2019 Letter to Andrew Saul, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration - Cardin, Senators Defend Social Security Workers, Urge Reversal of Abrupt Cancellation of Telework Sen.Jack Reed, ...
Nov. 19, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor - Brown, Baldwin Lead Senators Urging Labor Secretary to Establish Workplace Heat Safety Standards, As Workers Are Increasingly Impacted By Climate Change Sen.Jack Reed, ...
Nov. 19, 2019 Letter to Kirk Davis, CEO of GateHouse Media, and Paul Bascobert, President and CEO of Gannett CO., Inc. - Baldwin, Brown, Menendez lead Senators Urging Media Companies to Recognize Workers' Unions Sen.Jack Reed, ...
Nov. 12, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Janet Dhillon, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Senator Murray, 28 Democrats Oppose EEOC Decision to Stop Collecting Data Needed to Combat Wage Discrimination Sen.Jack Reed, ...
Oct. 22, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Andrew Wheeler, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Menendez, Booker Press EPA on Abrupt End to Contract Negotiations with Employee Union Sen.Jack Reed, ...
Aug. 27, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Patrick Pizzella, Acting Secretary, Department of Labor - U.S. Senator Tina Smith, Democratic Colleagues Fight for Nation's Registered Apprenticeship Program Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
Aug. 26, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Patrick Pizzella, Acting Secretary of the Department of Labor - Harris, Feinstein, Colleagues Oppose Labor Department Proposal to Create Duplicative, Lower-Quality Unregistered Apprenticeships Sen.Jack Reed, ...
Aug. 1, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Durbin, Duckworth Urge VA Secretary To End Anti-Worker, Anti-Union Negotiation Tactics Sen.Jack Reed, ...
July 31, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Robert Wilkie, Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs - U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin Urges VA Secretary to End Anti-Worker, Anti-Union Tactics Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
July 23, 2019 Letter to Andrew M. Saul, Commissioner of the Social Security Administration - Van Hollen, Cardin Lead Full Democratic Caucus in Urging Social Security Administrator to Respect Employees and Their Unions Sen.Jack Reed, ...
June 27, 2019 One Year Since Janus Decision, Senators Hirono, Stabenow, Whitehouse Release Report on Status of Workers' Rights Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
June 26, 2019 Cortez Masto Cosponsors Legislation to Strengthen Rights of Public Sector Workers to Join Unions, Bargain Collectively Sen.Jack Reed, ...
June 25, 2019 Moulton Joins Reps. Larson, Kennedy, Shalala and Hill to Introduce National Service Plan Sen.Jack Reed, ...
June 18, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Margaret Weichert - Duckworth, Langevin Lead Colleagues In Asking Trump Administration For Information on Hiring Targets, Retention Rates of Federal Employees With Disabilities Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
June 11, 2019 Senators Markey, Carper, Collins, and Whitehouse Introduce Legislation to Expand Offshore Wind Educational and Career Training Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
May 21, 2019 Letter to Secretary Acosta, Secretary of Labor - Brown, Sanders, Murray Lead 20 Senators In Urging Labor Dept To Withdraw Proposed Rule That Would Deny Millions Of Workers Overtime Pay They Have Earned Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
May 1, 2019 Reed Offers Bill to Make Medicare an Affordable Healthcare Option for More Americans Sen.Jack Reed
April 30, 2019 Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions Sen.Jack Reed
March 29, 2019 Inhofe, Whitehouse Introduce Bill to Train Next Generation of Manufacturing Workforce Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
March 25, 2019 Whitehouse Unveils Bill to Train Next Generation of Manufacturing Workforce Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse
Jan. 28, 2019 Letter to Margaret Weichert, Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management - Wyden, Bipartisan Group of Senators Urge Administration to Pay Federal Workers Affected by the Shutdown Immediately Sen.Jack Reed, ...
Jan. 25, 2019 Reed Statement on Agreement to End Trump Shutdown Sen.Jack Reed
Jan. 25, 2019 Whitehouse Statement on Deal to End Tump Shutdown Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse
Jan. 24, 2019 Reed Votes to End the Shutdown and Enhance Border Security, But Republican Leaders Block Bipartisan Effort to Reopen Government Sen.Jack Reed
Jan. 24, 2019 Whitehouse Statement on Government Funding Votes Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse
Jan. 14, 2019 Congressional Delegation Joins Unpaid Federal Employees to Call for End to Trump Shutdown Sen.Jack Reed, ...
Jan. 10, 2019 Letter to the Hon. Russell Vought, Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget - On First Day Employees are Missing Paychecks, Udall & Heinrich Fight to Protect Federal Workers and Contractors Stiffed Out of Pay Due to Trump Shutdown Sen.Jack Reed, ...
Jan. 8, 2019 Whitehouse Statement on President Trump's Immigration Address Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse
Oct. 19, 2018 Letter to Mr. James C. Duff, Director of Administrative Office of the United States Courts - Secret, Partisan Judicial Clerk Training Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
June 27, 2018 Whitehouse Statement on SCOTUS Janus Decision Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse
June 25, 2018 Whitehouse Unveils New Bill to Help RI Manufacturers Address Workforce Challenges, Support Innovation Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
June 20, 2018 Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions Sen.Jack Reed
June 19, 2018 Letter to President Donald Trump - Call for Repeal of Trump Administration's Civil Service Executive Orders Sen.Sheldon Whitehouse, ...
June 14, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Mick Mulvaney, Director of US Office of Management and Budget - Reverse Decision to Stop Collecting Wage Discrimination Data Sen.Jack Reed, ...
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