and providing workers with the leverage they need to negotiate fair wages, health insurance and safe workplace conditions.
Support giving workers leverage to negotiate fair wages, health insurance, and safe workplace conditions.
Occurrences
Evidence
The Congresswoman strongly supports efforts to establish a living wage, strengthening one of America’s most important anti-poverty measures—the Earned Income Tax Credit—and providing workers with the leverage they need to negotiate fair wages, health insurance and safe workplace conditions.
Assessments
The evidence shows Velazquez publicly supported giving workers leverage to negotiate fair wages, health insurance, and safe workplace conditions, which is best understood in federal context as support for collective bargaining and pro-labor standards. However, the provided record does not show that the promised federal outcome was enacted or otherwise delivered. As a member of Congress, support or sponsorship of labor-rights measures can establish a serious effort, but without passage into law or another completed federal action attributable to her, this should not be scored as delivered. Because the evidence indicates a serious policy position/effort but not fulfillment of the promised outcome, the proper outcome is never with an effort badge.