LANSING, Mich.— Monday, Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist joined the annual Labor Day parade in Detroit alongside labor and community leaders, elected officials, and workers. The theme of the march was “Labor United Stronger than Ever!”
“Governor Whitmer and I are committed to ensuring Michigan workers are protected and respected at work,” said Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist II. “Alongside the first pro-worker legislative majority in 40 years, we restored workers’ rights, reinstate prevailing wage, and put money back in the pockets of working families and retirees. On Labor Day, we celebrate the working people who drive the power, vitality, innovation, and creativity of our communities. We recommit ourselves to growing Michigan’s economy, creating high-skilled, good-paying jobs, and helping more people ‘make it’ in Michigan. Let us all continue to stand tall for working Michigan families.”
Whitmer Administration Support for Working Michiganders
Governor Whitmer is committed to growing Michigan’s middle class, empowering workers, building thriving communities, and creating good-paying jobs you can raise a family on.
- Restored worker’s rights by repealing “Right to Work,” to ensure workers can more effectively bargain together for fair wages and benefits.
- Rolled back the retirement tax to save half a million households an average of $1,000 a year.
- Quintupled the Working Families Tax Credit, delivering an average combined refund of $3,150 to 700,000 working families, directly benefitting half the kids in Michigan.
- Reinstated prevailing wage for all state projects, raising wages and improving work quality.
- Announced nearly 36,000 good-paying auto jobs and counting, including the first auto plant in Detroit in nearly 30 years.
- Signed an executive directive to fight payroll fraud and required the state to increase the number of contracts awarded to companies that create good-paying jobs in the state.
- Appointed more than 200 union members to boards, commissions, and jobs.
- Secured new investments in union training and pre-apprenticeship programs.
- Invested in additional funding Going Pro to help businesses up-skill in-house talent, secure resources for talent retention in key industries, eliminate barriers to employment, expand partnerships with union training facilities, and more.
- In her What’s Next Address, Governor Whitmer called for paid family and medical leave for Michigan workers to remove barriers to entering the workforce and level the playing field for small businesses, helping them attract and retain workers.
Thanks to the governor’s work to grow Michigan’s economy, bring supply chains back home from overseas, and create good-paying jobs, Michigan is on the move and open for business:
- Fixed 20,000 lane miles of roads and 1,400 bridges supporting 118,000 jobs.
- Record investments to build affordable housing, revitalize communities, and make cities & towns better places to live, work, and invest.
- Projected to “dominate” battery manufacturing, #1 for auto & electric vehicle manufacturing.
- Historic investments in cars, chips, and clean energy, bringing supply chains home from overseas and creating high-skilled, good-paying union jobs in communities like Marshall, Big Rapids, Bay City, Dearborn, and Detroit.
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