Political Quotes

“Once again the Republican majority is offering a bill that would harm working families. It has nothing to do with saving local businesses, small businesses, and has everything to do with limiting workers' rights and taking away workers' wages. Between 2005 and 2015, 94 percent of net job growth was in alternative work like temporary, contract, and on-call jobs. This isn't our parents' workplace anymore, where one employer sets the rules and pays the wages. Today, a corporation can set workplace rules while a temp agency or subcontractor pays the wages. Today's workers need to be able to bargain with both and to hold each accountable for labor law violations. Instead, this bill moves us backward. It would prevent working men and women from bargaining for better wages and benefits and safer working conditions with the corporations that have decisionmaking power over their workplace. It would allow corporations to rob working women and men of their earned wages without giving those workers the right to recover. The annual cost of wage theft is estimated at $50 billion this year. It would immunize bad corporate actors and put small and big businesses who respect their workers at a competitive disadvantage. This bill is a bad deal, and workers know it. I include in the Record a letter from the AFL-CIO and its 12 million members. If you support better wages and better jobs, vote ``no'' on this bad bill. AFL-CIO Washington, DC, November 6, 2017.…”