House to vote on legislation to protect workers' rights to form and join unions

Posted on AllSides February 6th, 2020
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labor, US House, labor unions

The US House of Representatives will vote on a bill on Thursday to protect US workers’ right to form and join unions that supporters are calling the “most ambitious pro-labor legislation” in decades and one Republican congressman has dismissed as “the worst bill in congress”.

The ‘Protecting the Right to Organize Act, PRO Act has strong support from congressional Democrats and labor leaders. Republican Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, who owns ten McDonald’s franchises and has an estimated net worth of $93m, has called the bill an attempt to “rewrite our...

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/06/house-vote-bill-workers-unions

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