Political Quotes

“I want to thank Mr. DeSaulnier for his leadership. I rise in very strong support of the PRO Act because it will restore the constitutional and civil rights of American citizens seeking to organize a union. We have to remember that the right to organize is rooted in the First Amendment of the Constitution which protects the right of the people to speak, to assemble, and to petition for a redress of grievances. All of these rights have been under severe attack over the last several decades of union busting and interference with the right of the people to organize into unions. There are three specific provisions I want to mention that will restore the constitutional rights of the people to organize. The first treats the violation of the right to organize like a violation of any other civil right in America. If your civil rights are violated based on race or based on gender, you have a right to go to court to sue for enforcement of your rights and for compensation for violation of those rights. This PRO Act will give the same right to workers to go to court to enforce their labor organizing rights. Right now, they have got to go through the National Labor Relations Board which has been stifled with bureaucracy and red tape. And right now, under the PRO Act, if it passes, you will have the right to go to court as well as to go to the NLRB in order to enforce your right to organize. {time} 1300 Secondly, the PRO Act will end so-called captive audience speeches.…”