SALT makes the effort every year on Labor Day to pay tribute to American workers. Workers, more than ever, deserve to be held in high esteem, especially in light of their heroic efforts during the pandemic. The men and women on the front lines, all heroes, provide the services and make available the products essential for protecting and saving lives.
Links to some of SALT's past efforts to advance worker justice and justice for their families.
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Demand an End of Tax Breaks for the Wealthy and Corporations and Reverse 40 Years of Trickle-Down Tax Cuts and Use the Money to Help Working Families Afford Health Care, Childcare, Housing, and More.
- Moving People from Welfare to the Workforce
A special thanks is also due to those that have supported the labor movement and worked hard to make labor justice possible.
- The History Behind Labor Day...click here to view the video. Be sure to click on "skip the ads."
- Labor Resources and Faith Resources Supporting Workers: AFL-CIO, U.S. Department of Labor, Virginia Department of Labor and Industry, and Faith Resources in Support of Workers, Labor Day Resources from Domestic Justice and Human Development (USCCB).
The late Mark Shields, a highly respect political commentator that many of us watched on PBS, was fond of saying: "We are all warmed by fires we did not build and drink from wells that we did not dig." We have all benefited from the work of our predecessors, especially the work of organized labor and those that supported the labor movement. They helped to give us the 40 hour work week, living wage laws, overtime pay, sick leave, workers compensation when injured, equal pay for equal work, employer provided health and pension benefits, child labor laws, to name a few of the benefits they helped provide. Below you will find a list of some -- not all -- that helped make possible worker justice.
- Walter Reuther...read more
- Bayard Rustin...read more
- Cesar Chevez...read more
- Frances Perkins...read more
- Msgr. George Higgins...read more
- John L. Lewis...read more
- 16 More Labor Justice Icons...read more.
HAPPY LABOR DAY!