Labor

Protecting Working Families

In Congress I intend to be a strong voice for American workers, their healthcare, their families, and their pensions.

I will strongly support the agenda of working men and women of organized labor.

I am proud to have earned the endorsement of Teamsters Joint Council 73. I believe that if we unite, Garrett can be defeated this November and we can replace an opponent of working families with a strong and consistent pro-labor voice.

  • I wholeheartedly support the Employee Free Choice Act – Scott Garrett voted no.
  • I firmly oppose all NAFTA style trade deals, including Peru. And my daughter, Holly Shulman, is an SEIU member and press officer for Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, so my commitment on this issue is not merely political, but familial.
  • And you can count on me to always support Davis-Bacon, while Scott Garrett was the only New Jersey Member of Congress—Republican or Democrat—to call for a suspension of Davis-Bacon (the prevailing wage law) in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The Davis-Bacon Act must be protected from those who would seek to end it or weaken it by selectively applying it. The U.S. government should be paying prevailing wages and working with unions, not against them.
  • I am a huge proponent of rebuilding America’s failing infrastructure – it is an issue of public safety, of economic competitiveness, and, frankly, of common sense.
  • Having spent my high school years working in a toy factory, I will also prioritize workplace safety, whereas Scott Garrett is opposed to all government regulations on behalf of workers, children, or others vulnerable to corporate misdeeds.
  • And of I course I would always be a vote in favor of increasing the minimum wage – but, somehow, Scott Garrett has found a way to consistently oppose that common sense legislation.
  • On Social Security, I believe that our seniors should be able to rest their faith in a system put in place by FDR, not a system run by and for Wall Street.
  • Finally, I support seriously addressing the nation’s healthcare crisis, and I remain astonished that Scott Garrett has voted to uphold each SCHIP veto by the President.