While CEOs, on average, make 287 times more than those they employ, a minimum wage worker cannot afford a two-bedroom apartment in any corner of our country.

Have you seen, in your opinion, sir, an erosion of workers protections, worker clout over recent American history?

But if there is a defining theme over the past four decades, it is the systematic assault on worker clout that is leading to stagnant wages, historic economic inequality, and all undermined by a sustained attack on union labor and bargaining rights.

Over the past four decades, our economy has shifted dramatically. Companies and corporations have opened, shuttered, and opened again.

Instead of pointing to market forces and ceding influence to corporations, it is time that Congress stepped forward, protect our economy, protect those employees.

At a minimum, there should be 30 days before an intelligent thoughtful discussion, pros and cons.

But at the moment, because, you are not actually a full employee, but you are a contract employee, you wear their apparel but do not benefit from that arrangement?

Mr. Alvarez, if I can ask, if you were to be classified as a full employee from XPO, which, if I understand, you wear XPO clothing labeled with XPO, do you not?

All this at a time when corporate profits are at a historic high?

That is a crisis, a crisis that will only grow worse if this government continues to turn a blind eye or, even worse, continues to roll back protections for workers; and no one in this country will feel that pain more acutely than contract workers who are denied decent protections and benefits.

We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the things not because they're easy but because they're hard.