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3 Aug, 9 tweets, 14 min read

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The data validates their perception. Since 1979, wages for workers in the bottom 90% grew by less than 24%. The decline in union representation has lowered the median hourly wage by $1.56, a 7.9% decline (0.2% annually), from 1979 to 2017.

The past year has exacerbated real economic and social difficulties for working people in the United States and has only made pre-existing disparities worse.

Our decades-old labor laws are no longer equipped to protect worker voice on the job or to promote collective bargaining as originally intended.

Workers’ inability to join collectively to correct the power imbalance in the workplace has led to increased income inequality, low wages, the erosion of benefits, and unsafe working conditions.

The US is falling behind on numerous fronts, and our labor protections are no exception. Workers need you now to show your support for the right to organize. Now is the time to strengthen that right and make it real.

We urge you to support the PRO Act.

@ActorsEquity

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The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, @ActorsEquity, @ALPAPilots, @ATUComm, @AFGENational, @The_AFM, @AFSAUnion, @AFSCME, @AFTunion, @AGMusicalArtist, @APWUnational, American Guild of Variety Artists, @afa_cwa, @APFAunity, @BCTGM 1/

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Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, @CWAUnion, @DPEaflcio, The Guild of Italian American Actors, @IUE_CWAUnion, @IATSE, @TheIronworkers, @IAFFNewsDesk, @InsulatorsUnion, @MachinistsUnion, @smartunionworks, @boilermakernews, @IBEW, @Teamsters, @IFPTE, @MMP_Union, @IUBAC 2/

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