Labor Support Growing in Congress

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Support for working families is becoming an even more mainstream position in Washington, with new Senators and Representatives voting in support of labor issues 94 percent of the time, according to the newly updated AFL-CIO congressional scorecard. "This analysis bears out what we have always known - that issues like a real minimum wage and affordable prescription drugs are what matter to Americans," AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said.  "Working people know we have been on the wrong track for the last eight years and in the last election, they chose people they hoped would set things right." The newly updated scorecard allows users to track the labor voting records of members of Congress – including Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain – online as far back as 1996.