The House vote to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is not a bill the majority of Americans can support. It is a badly watered-down version that eliminates protections for millions of women, produced after intense lobbying by a coalition of social conservative groups upon Republican members of Congress.
House Republicans continued their attacks on working women, and last night voted to pass a shameful version of the bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, filled with restrictions that undermine the very intent of a law (originally written by then-Sen. Joe Biden) designed to help victims of domestic violence. The House version, which passed 222 to 205, leaves working immigrant women, same-sex couples and even Native American women vulnerable and makes it harder to keep these women safe.
AFL-CIO Community Services Director Will Fischer describes union volunteer efforts at a community crisis center in Georgia.
Nearly 50 union brothers and sisters from across the state of Georgia took time out in recent days to lend a hand to a Georgia community. Working with the United Way of Coastal Georgia, participants in the Georgia AFL-CIO Community Services’ Legislative and Organizing Conference provided much-needed repairs, maintenance and sprucing up at the Glynn Community Crisis Center.
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