Political Quotes

I include in the Record a letter of support for the bill from the AFL-CIO. Legislative Alert AFL-CIO, Washington, DC, March 8, 2021. Dear Representative: On January 26, we wrote in support of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act…

I thank the chairman so much for his leadership. Madam Speaker, at base, what we are talking about here is whether workers in this country are free to come together and form a union. All of these amendments are designed to undermine that…

Later today we will debate the PRO Act, and we will pass the PRO Act to free up American workers to form unions and bargain collectively just because they darn well please without interference from their employer. And when we debate the…

This amendment is truly amazing to me as a longtime union organizer. It seeks to undermine the freedom of contract, the ability of employers and unions to agree on how to handle a situation freely together. The shock of giving the…