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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
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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, ...
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