On the recordFebruary 5, 2020
I thank Representative Omar for being such a champion of workers in Minnesota and throughout this great Nation and, indeed, throughout our world. Madam Speaker, I will take a few moments to talk about the breadth of this bill. What has happened to workers in this country over the last several decades is the result of many administrative actions by various administrations, regulatory actions that administrations have taken that stripped workers of their rights, judicial decisions from the lower courts all the way up to the Supreme Court, and laws passed by the Congress and the States, to the point where millions and millions of workers aren't even covered by the National Labor Relations Act, can't even exercise their rights under the National Labor Relations Act, and the rights that they have are so badly eroded that, functionally, workers don't have the freedom to form unions in this country. And Representative Omar referenced Chairman Scott. Chairman Scott and the staff of this committee have done such an incredible job at looking at the complexity of the workplace in 2020 and including the many ways in which we need to make changes to help workers. I want to highlight several things: The first is the problem of multiple employers and protecting employees of multiple employers.…
