Labor

Congresswoman Sanchez has family roots in organized labor. She was a dues-paying member of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and joined her peers on the picket lines during a major strike in 2002. Her parents both worked at a manufacturing plant where her father was a machinist and her mother was a secretary who also helped organize the plant workers.

Congresswoman Sanchez has spent her tenure in Congress working to ensure that American workers are treated justly and fairly, and are given the support and respect they deserve. Loretta has been on the front lines of labor disputes, standing beside United Workers in preserving their pensions, and pushing the Federal Aviation Administration to come back to the table to negotiate with the Air Traffic Controllers. More than anyone, Congresswoman Sanchez understands the importance of the organized labor movement, to individual workers and their families, to local communities, to the nation.