{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://bobbyscott.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/scott-statement-october-jobs-report-4", "Scott Statement on October Jobs Report", "2023-11-03", "2023", "2023-11", "Democrat", "House", "VA", "Robert C. \"Bobby\" Scott", "S000185", "bobbyscott.house.gov", "bobbyscott", "https://bobbyscott.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "As originally released by the Committee on Education and the Workforce, Democrats\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Ranking Member Robert C. \u201cBobby\u201d Scott (VA-03) released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the economy added 150,000 jobs in October as the unemployment rate ticked up slightly from 3.8 percent to 3.9 percent. Under President Biden\u2019s leadership, the economy has added nearly 14 million jobs.\n\n\u201cToday\u2019s jobs report once again underscores the strength of our economy under President Biden\u2019s leadership. The Biden administration has consistently prioritized growing the economy from the bottom up and the middle out, including supporting our nation\u2019s labor unions.\n\n\u201cLabor unions safeguard the middle class and play a crucial role in our economic growth. The United Auto Workers\u2019 (UAW) tentative contract agreements with the Big Three automakers\u2014General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis\u2014are the latest examples of union workers\u2019 power to negotiate for higher wages, eliminate tiered wage arrangements, and include automatic cost-of-living adjustments, among other key wins. While we wait for the workers to weigh in on ratification, we can already see their impact on non-unionized workers in the automotive industry, with Toyota raising the wages of its factory workers this week. Simply put, the UAW\u2019s triumph in securing these tentative agreements affirms what the labor movement has known for generations: when workers exercise their collective bargaining rights, they can negotiate for higher wages, better benefits, and safer working conditions.\n\n\u201cRegrettably, workers need stronger protections to exercise their basic right to organize a union. That is why I am again calling on Congress to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, the most significant update for workers\u2019 labor organizing rights in more than eight decades.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://bobbyscott.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/scott-statement-october-jobs-report-4"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.533030066639185, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}