On April 28, the unions of the AFL-CIO observe Workers Memorial Day to remember those who have suffered and died on the job and to renew the fight for safe jobs. This year we will come together to call for work in this country that is safe and healthy and pays fair wages. We will celebrate the victories won by working people and commit to fighting until all workers have safe jobs and the freedom to form unions without the threat of retaliation.

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More and more Republicans are starting to cave into pressure from working people like you to do their job and hold a hearing and vote on Pres. Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland. But we need to keep the pressure up because Mitch McConnell and Republican leaders are hoping they can ride out the coming weeks into the summer recess and avoid doing their constitutional duty.

In New York State we have an opportunity to create good paying jobs while keeping our tax dollars right here at home. It's quite simple - Buy American. A proposal before the state legislature would establish a preference for the use and purchase of American-made steel and iron products in structural and component parts of public works projects.