[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 150 (Monday, September 18, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H4374-H4375]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     ADVOCATING FOR WORKER BENEFITS

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, the strength of America is in her 
workers,

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and today I rise on the floor of the House to stand with the UAW 
workers around the Nation and those that are striking now in the 
Midwest.
  There are UAW workers in Texas, and I stand with them. Can we at 
least understand that the value of what these workers are advocating 
for are American values: health benefits; the ability to have a 
permanent job; the ability to have compensation; to be able to buy and 
keep a house, or to provide for your family, or to buy a car that you 
make.
  This is a crisis that does not have to be. I ask and encourage the 
Big Three, the automakers, to sit with the UAW workers and resolve this 
the American way, and that is with fairness and justice and equality 
for all.
  UAW is fighting for American workers. American workers over the 
decades and centuries have helped build this Nation. Let us not 
continue a strike that does not respond to the basic human needs of the 
UAW workers.
  Again, I stand with the workers. I look forward to a reasoned and 
responsible resolve of all of this.

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