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House Passes Bill to Dramatically Strengthen Power of Unions

Posted On: Feb 10, 2020

Feb. 10, 2020 | U.S. LABOR UNIONS | House Democrats just passed an important blueprint for strengthening unions and building worker power. If signed into law, the labor law reforms within the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act would amount to the biggest change to the rules governing employers and workers in generations. Among other major features, it would bolster workers’ ability to unionize, expand organizing rights to more workers and strengthen the right to strike. Although flawed, the legislation would go a long way toward reversing decades of GOP-backed efforts to grind unions into dust… But the [bill] is unlikely to be passed by the Republican-controlled Senate… Working In These Times