This week's end crashed right into crossover. That's the deadline where the House must complete all its legislation that needs to be sent over to the Senate for their action on it, and vice versa. The days leading up to Friday's deadline were long, but very successful! This week we saw a lot of progress on legislation that would strengthen and protect workers and the voices of working families in the Commonwealth prevail in each chamber and we are looking forward to their co

The legislative train is running full speed ahead, and keeping labor activists busy! Legislator meetings, sub and full committees and floor sessions are picking up speed and still adding time to the clock as the meetings this week dragged on late into the night. Long nights and early mornings are required when we are working towards ensuring that working families of Virginia are being kept at the forefront of policies. Of course, still -- hundreds of bills are in play at the

This was the first full week of the General Assembly session, and boy, things are moving FAST! Even with both chambers having bill limits, still. thousands of bills are pouring in daily and lots of pieces of legislation that will effect labor are in the mix! With that being said, we lobbied on over 10 bills this week, but here are just 3 pieces of legislation from the week: HB 1786 - Minimum Wage; Include Farmworkers - Delegate Jeion Ward : Eliminates the exemption from V