{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.heinrich.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/video-heinrich-statement-on-labor-day", "VIDEO: Heinrich Statement on Labor Day", "2024-09-02", "2024", "2024-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "NM", "Martin Heinrich", "H001046", "www.heinrich.senate.gov", "heinrich", "https://www.heinrich.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement in recognition of Labor Day.\n\nVIDEO: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich Labor Day Statement, September 2, 2024.\n\n\u201cI grew up in a proud union home. My father was a lineman and a member of the IBEW. His union wages allowed me to attend college, provided my family with a ticket to the middle class, and gave my parents stability and peace of mind in their retirement. These are opportunities that every American deserves.\n\n\u201cUnions have a proven track record of improving wages, benefits, and working conditions for their members. Whether you are a plumber, a nurse, or a firefighter, public employee or service industry worker, organized labor has notched some major victories in the last few years. But it should be easier to join a union, not harder. That\u2019s why I\u2019m fighting to pass the PRO Act in Congress to finally protect workers\u2019 right to organize under law.\n\n\u201cThe historic investments we\u2019ve delivered under the Biden-Harris Administration have created thousands of new skilled trades jobs in New Mexico. Union workers in the trades are building new advanced manufacturing facilities, constructing the SunZia Transmission Line, which will facilitate the largest clean energy infrastructure project ever built in the Western Hemisphere, and helping us electrify our homes, schools, and businesses.\n\n\u201cOver the next decade, we will need to fill thousands of job openings in the skilled trades. For electricians, plumbers and pipefitters, carpenters, HVAC technicians, and utility line workers. These will be union careers that New Mexicans can build their families around. Which is why I\u2019m fighting to expand access to union training programs and apprenticeships. These pathways toward stable union careers can start as early as high school. And they will help us address rising workforce shortages and grow our economy.\n\n\u201cOn this Labor Day, I\u2019m proud to recognize the role that organized labor has long played in building the middle class. And I remain committed to creating more union careers like the one that made such a difference for my family.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "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://www.heinrich.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/video-heinrich-statement-on-labor-day"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9223541710525751, "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"}