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Tim Walberg: “I may be misremembering the definition of empowerment, but I can guarantee it does not mean taking away a worker's right…”

On the recordJune 10, 2026
I may be misremembering the definition of empowerment, but I can guarantee it does not mean taking away a worker's right to vote on his or her own contract and giving that power to a Washington bureaucrat with no stake in the outcome.
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Tim Walberg
Republican · Michigan
Source
reason.com
Jun 10, 2026

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Representative opposing the Faster Labor Contracts Act.

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