Jobs, Labor, & the Economy

SEATTLE — United States Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) issued the following statement tonight after President Donald Trump issued a memo that unlawfully threatens Seattle’s federal funding: “First, Donald Trump and his administration threatened to terrorize our Seattle community by unnecessarily deploying federal agents to our streets.…

Jayapal Votes to Save the United States Postal Service After Calling on House Leadership to Immediately Reconvene Congress SEATTLE—United States Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, voted to save the United States Postal Service just seven…

Jayapal Leads Washington and Oregon Representatives In Urging the National Labor Relations Board to Immediately Reverse Their Dangerous, Alarming and Abrupt Decision to Restructure Field Offices at the Expense of Worker Protections SEATTLE—United States Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Earl Blumenauer…

United States Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, announced several critical victories and urgent investments today that she secured on behalf of Washington’s Seventh Congressional District in this year’s appropriations bills, which passed the House of…

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] — Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs U.S. Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) and Mark Pocan (WI-02) are demanding relief for frontline workers facing retaliation for organizing for safer working conditions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.  In a letter signed by…

WITH WIDE-RANGING SUPPORT, JAYAPAL INTRODUCES PAYCHECK RECOVERY ACT TO KEEP WORKERS IN THEIR JOBS, STOP MASS UNEMPLOYMENT AND DELIVER DIRECT RELIEF TO BUSINESSES OF ALL SIZES Estimated to benefit more than 36 million workers and widely supported by 93 members…