Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Chair, my amendment addresses just one radical component of the PRO Act by preserving workers' privacy, ensuring that they can protect their own personal information and decide for themselves whether they wish to share it with the union. Importantly, the amendment does not restrict unions from receiving any information at all; rather, the workers can decide for themselves which one piece of contact information they wish to share. And the union is free to gather the rest directly from workers without the employer acting as a middleman. Like with every other provision of the PRO Act, Democrats claim that invading workers' privacy is about leveling the playing field; but, time and again, polling has shown that workers prefer choice, privacy, and control within the unions that claim to represent them. The PRO Act is an affront to all of these basic concepts, none of its provisions more so than the requirement that employers share employees' personal information with union organizers against the employees' will. Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this commonsense amendment that will put workers, not union bosses, in control of their own private, personal information, and I yield back the balance of my time.”