Subject: What Labor Day means...
From: "Nate Boulton" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2017 18:46:09 +0000 (UTC)

Hi Friend,

I wanted to send you a quick note to wish you and your family a safe and restful Labor Day. Some are celebrating out of town with family or friends, and some are staying at home to rest and catch up on the to-do list. Regardless of how you’re celebrating, we’re observing today to celebrate workers and their contribution to our country.

Celebrating workers doesn’t just mean looking back over the strides labor has made over the course of our history - from the 13th Amendment prohibiting forced labor, to the National Labor Relations Act guaranteeing the ability to form unions and collectively bargain, to the Fair Labor Standards Act which established a minimum wage and overtime pay laws.

Labor Day is also a time to look ahead and embrace the fights that we still face today: making sure women are paid the same as men for equal work, giving everyone a shot at earning a fair, living wage regardless of zip code, and having the right to earn time off for illness, family or for vacation.

We're fighting hard every day to get there.

On this day, I also want to encourage everyone to continue pressing leaders in Iowa and across the country to demand what we yet don't have. We need a livable wage. We need paid sick or family leave. We need equal pay.

The good news is that our movement is winning -- people in states across the country are giving themselves raises and pressuring legislatures to guarantee leave.

That's a huge step in the right direction, but we have more work to do. I'm running to be Iowa's governor because I stand with workers today -- and every day!

Happy Labor Day!

-Nate

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