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Joe Courtney: “I worked on the Hill for 11 years, and all that time, I never saw a bill as extreme and provocative and anti-union…”

On the recordJune 13, 2017
I worked on the Hill for 11 years, and all that time, I never saw a bill as extreme and provocative and anti-union, anti-worker as the Employee Rights Act.
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Joe Courtney
Democratic · Connecticut

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Joe Courtney criticizes the Employee Rights Act as the most extreme anti-worker bill he's seen.

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