Ken Rigmaiden

Family-sustaining wages, high-quality benefits that benefit loved ones, the security of a pension, and the freedom to enjoy life away from the workplace on weekends and paid vacations. Our union is determined to provide our hard fought benefits to as many people as possible.

Workers desperately need more than our inadequate and broken labor laws which are so rarely enforced. The fight to expand our labor rights and ensure they're enforced federally with the PRO Act is a fight to expand labor protections to millions of workers who have none today.

In Arizona and all across this country, workers desperately need the PRO Act which would make it far easier to form and join unions. The American people are counting on Arizona's Senate delegation support for the PRO Act.

"I feel like if we had the PRO Act years ago, workers like me would've had support and protection instead of being grateful for crumbs on the table. We'd have a seat at the table."

Right-to-work laws originated as a way to divide Black and white workers and maintain Jim Crow. They're still fundamentally racist today and exist to keep workers divided and weak. The PRO Act would eliminate all right-to-work laws across the country, all at once.

Collective bargaining is the greatest tool we have to ensure gender and racial equity. Women make 23% more and Black and Latino workers make 20% more. Workers with a union also overwhelmingly have robust benefits and retirement plans, whereas those without a union do not.

Arizona voters support the PRO Act by a 22-point margin, yet neither Senator has cosponsored what would be the largest expansion of labor rights in a nearly a century.

We must never forget our history and the gains we've made to improve our lives and skilled trades. nitter.gq/GoIUPAT/status/1397929…

"Sometimes the company would threaten us with deportation and wanted to pay us with paint. Nobody did anything until we met some people who belong to the union. They were the ones who supported us."

The NLRA was a significant pro-worker shift from the decades prior where interventions from our federal government often meant suppression and repression on behalf of employers. We must restore its promise by passing the PRO Act. nitter.gq/GoIUPAT/status/1389305…

We're thrilled that our union sister, Celeste Drake, has been selected to take on this role and look forward to working alongside her. The creation of this office by the Biden admin is commendable. nitter.gq/MarketWatch/status/138…

Our union was founded by immigrants and our earliest organizing was done across nearly a dozen languages. We're doing everything in our power from coast to coast to put an end to the underground economy in construction which preys on undocumented workers.

For decades, our apprenticeships have transformed not only the lives of the apprentices themselves but their families too. That's the power of a union. nitter.gq/GoIUPAT/status/1382029…

Workplace elections happen every nearly day. They're deeply undemocratic and the deck is stacked against workers in every single one of them. The fight for the PRO Act is a fight for the basic democratic rights to be upheld in the workplace. nitter.gq/GoIUPAT/status/1380507…