Political Quotes

“I rise on behalf of working people to urge Congress to reject H.R. 3246, a bill to restrict workers from organizing. H.R. 3246 will make it much more difficult for workers to organize other workers for better pay and benefits. It would allow employers to refuse employment to workers on the basis of their outside group affiliations. It would do this by overruling a Supreme Court decision which held that employees who took jobs at nonunion employers to assist other workers to form a union, that those employees could not be fired for disloyalty. H.R. 3246 turns the clock back to the 19th century when workers had few rights. I urge my colleagues to defend the rights of workers. Let us unite to declare, people have a right to a job, a right to decent wages and benefits, a right to safe working places, a right to compensation if they are injured on the job, a right to decent health care, a right to organize, a right to join a union, a right to grieve about working, and a right to participate in the political process. We in Congress have an obligation to protect the rights of working people.”