Call your senators and tell them we’ve waited long enough for COVID-19 relief. They must vote YES on the American Rescue Plan.

The American Rescue Plan funds vaccinations and testing so we can contain COVID-19 and get back to normal. It also delivers direct, immediate relief to our families and communities who have been struggling through this pandemic over the past year.

This is a historic rescue package. It provides benefits and programs America’s families need:

• Overdue support for our states, cities and towns so we can preserve critical public services.

• More money for COVID-19 testing, treatment and protective supplies.

• Funding to shore up multiemployer pension plans, protecting earned retirement benefits for millions of hard-working Americans.

• An 85 percent COBRA subsidy for unemployed workers who lost health care (the AFL-CIO is advocating for 100 percent).

• Renter and homeowner assistance.

• School funding for safe reopenings or remote learning.

• Paid sick and family and medical leave for more than 14 weeks.

• An increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.

More than 28 million Americans have contracted COVID-19 and over 500,000 have died already.

Senators have had enough time. They’ve had enough chances.

Call your senators and tell them: Vote YES and pass the American Rescue Plan now.

In Solidarity,

Team AFL-CIO

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