John Conyers has worked hard for union workers and their families for 45 years. He has made sure through his congressional tenure that workers can support and educate their families and that they are paid a fair wage and that they have a safe working environment.

John Conyers supports the little guy and working people and makes sure that Washington does not ignore them. He will continue to work hard to ensure that hard working union workers will continue to receive good wages, fair pensions and protect the collective bargaining system. These important facets of union workers are the backbone of the middle class in America. John Conyers stated, “I am humbled by this ground swell of union support.”

The unions that have come out in support of John Conyers are as follows,

• AFL-CIO Michigan Maritime Trades Port Council
• AFSCME Michigan Council 25
• American Federation of Teachers - Michigan
• Detroit Federation of Musicians
• International Brotherhood of Teamsters
• International Union of Operating Engineers
• Metropolitan Detroit County AFL-CIO
• Michigan Maritime Trades Port Council
• Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters
• Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters & Millwrights
• Michigan State AFL-CIO
• Michigan Teamsters Joint Council # 43
• Michigan Unite Here Local 24
• National Treasury Employees Union
• Seafarers International Union
• UAW Region 1A
• United Food & Commercial Workers
• United Steel Workers

John Conyers will continue to work hard and fight for the rights of union workers throughout Michigan.

• Mich. Regional Council of Carpenters
• Mich. AFSCME Council 25
• Seafarers Intl. Union
• UAW-CAP
• Detroit Federation of Musicians
• Operating Engineers Local 324 PAC
• Mich. Maritime Trades Port Council
• Mich. State AFL-CIO

(WASHINGTON) – Today, Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released the following statement responding to Mitt Romney’s pledge to roll back the clock on women’s access to affordable health care for all by repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

“Today, a New York Times article highlighted a disturbing fact about our country’s health care system: women still pay more than men for the same health insurance coverage,” said Conyers. “Today, women pay up to 50 percent more than men for the very same health coverage. Even if a woman’s policy does not cover maternity care, she can still be charged more because the insurance company fears it will be on the hook for complications from a pregnancy.

Starting in 2014, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, this so-called ‘gender rating’ will be prohibited. This is a common sense solution to a unfair and discriminatory policy that negatively affects millions of women in Metro Detroit and across the country – unless you’re running to be the Republican presidential nominee.

Mitt Romney and the rest of the Republican primary field have all pledged to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the protections provided against unfair price gouging based solely on a person’s gender. In Mitt Romney’s America, it’s perfectly OK to charge someone more for the same health care service simply because she is a woman.

Millions of American women are fed up with unfair, discriminatory health insurance policies and if Mitt Romney is going to take a stand on the side of discrimination, then he is only making it more clear that he is wrong for American women.”

Congressman Conyers is pleased to announce that he has received endorsements from a wide range of elected officials, progressive organizations, and community leaders in his bid to represent the 13th District of Michigan in Congress:

For Immediate Release

February 10, 2012

President Barack Obama has endorsed Congressman John Conyers, Jr. in the newly drawn, 13th Congressional District for his re-election.

“Congressman John Conyers, Jr. is a tireless champion for all of Southeastern Michigan’s working families, especially the many struggling to get by,” said President Obama. “That is why we need his dedicated efforts back in Congress to continue the fight with me to bring real jobs to the greater Metro Detroit area and our nation. I need you to cast your vote for Congressman John Conyers, Jr. in the August Democratic congressional primary.”

With the 13th Congressional District being in one of the most economically struggling areas of the country, Conyers is focusing his campaign on the economic issues facing the families of Metro Detroit. The endorsement is a clear signal that the president values his partnership in the fight for jobs.

“I am extremely humbled by President Obama’s endorsement,” Conyers said. “After a campaign focused on economic development and job creation, my first task back in Congress will be to work with the president and other members of Congress to get our economy back on the right track.”

“Republicans want to continue their agenda of working to take us back to the failed policies of the past,” Obama said. “We cannot let them succeed, and that’s why we all need to work hard to get a real “Pro-jobs Champion”, like Congressman John Conyers, Jr. re-elected to keep Metro Detroit and the country moving in a job growth direction.”

Rep. Conyers is the second-most senior member of the House, dean of the Congressional Black Caucus, former chairman of the House Committee on Government Operations (currently named Oversight and Government Reform) and former chairman of the pivotal House Judiciary Committee where he now serves as its ranking member.

John Conyers, Jr. looks forward to walking the neighborhoods of the new 13th District and meeting his constituents.

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John L. Barlow @ barlowcomm@gmail.com, (586) 954-0030 or
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