Labor
Congresswoman Sanchez has family roots in organized labor. She was a dues-paying member of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and joined her peers on the picket lines during a major strike in 2002. Her parents both worked at a manufacturing plant where her father was a machinist and her mother was a secretary who also helped organize the plant workers.
Congresswoman Sanchez has spent her tenure in Congress working to ensure that American workers are treated justly and fairly, and are given the support and respect they deserve. Loretta has been on the front lines of labor disputes, standing beside United Workers in preserving their pensions, and pushing the Federal Aviation Administration to come back to the table to negotiate with the Air Traffic Controllers. More than anyone, Congresswoman Sanchez understands the importance of the organized labor movement, to individual workers and their families, to local communities, to the nation.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (CA-46), senior member of the Committee on Homeland Security, Congresswoman Janice Hahn (CA-44), and several of their PORT Caucus Congressional colleagues sent a letter to Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, urging the Secretary to step in to help solve the economic crisis caused by Hanjin Shipping Co.’s recent collapse and bankruptcy.
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (CA-46) released the following statement in honor of Labor Day, which falls on Monday, September 5, 2016:
“On Labor Day we honor the many contributions and sacrifices of the American worker. We express gratitude for those who fought for fair pay, a five-day work week, pensions, health benefits, safe working conditions, and the right to collectively bargain. And we also recognize how far we still have to go to ensure fairness and opportunity for every hardworking American in the workplace.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. –– Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (CA-46), member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, released the following statement on César Chávez Day, honoring the iconic civil rights hero who would have turned eighty-nine years old today:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (CA-46) released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s 4-4 tie decision in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, upholding the Ninth Circuit Court ruling in favor of labor rights for American workers:
SANTA ANA, CA – Today, Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (CA-46) praised Orange County’s first labor agreement to protect cannabis workers and consumers at a press conference with Orange County Labor Federation and United Food & Commercial Workers, Local 324. This Cannabis worker labor agreement is a contract between UFCW Local 324 and South Coast Safe Access in Santa Ana, California unionize their workers.