Congressman Andy Levin and MI State Representative Regina Weiss Join For Our Future Michigan For Lab

FOR PLANNING PURPOSES:

June 29, 2022

CONTACT: Kenny Williams Jr.

kwilliams@forourfuturefund.org

313-525-6783

** MEDIA ADVISORY FOR FRIDAY, JUNE 29 AT 6 PM **

Congressman Andy Levin and MI State Representative Regina Weiss Join For Our Future Michigan For Labor Event To Highlight Workers’ Rights

DETROIT, MI – On Wednesday, June 29 at 6:00 p.m., For Our Future Michigan (FOF-MI) will host an event with Congressman Andy Levin, MI State Representative Regina Weiss of the 6th district, and other Michigan groups on Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act and the Public Service Freedom To Negotiate Act and how these bills would bring more equity and stability to the Michigan workforce. The event is in partnership with Oakland Forward and activists and members from AFL-CIO, SEIU, the American Postal Workers Union & Southeast MI Jobs W/ Justice.

The event is open to the media. Please RSVP to Kenny Williams Jr. at kwilliams@forourfuturefund.org.

WHO:

Congressman Andy Levin

MI State Representative Regina Weiss of the 6th district

WHAT: In-person event with local politicians, community members, and community groups

WHEN: Wednesday, June 29 at 6:00 p.m.

WHERE: Hawthorne Park, 1400 Telegraph Rd., Pontiac, MI 48340

BACKGROUND: FOF-MI has been organizing on the ground in Michigan since 2018 in support of progressive policies and candidates, including President Biden, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters, and dozens of congressional, state legislative, and local candidates.

FOF-MI strongly believes in steady, good-paying jobs, decreased gender and racial wage gaps, better benefits, increased access to time off, safer working conditions, and more. The ability for workers to be able to organize, collectively bargain for better working conditions and wages, and do so without fear or intimidation, shouldn’t be a partisan issue, a privilege, or in doubt, it should just be the law of the land.

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