On the recordFebruary 6, 2020
Mr. Chairman, I rise today to urge my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on the PRO Act, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act. The right to organize in this country has become a fundamental right. It is one of the core pillars of the American middle class. Nowhere do we understand that better than in my home area of northeastern Pennsylvania, where we remember that, almost 100 years ago, anthracite coal miners went out on strike to protest unsafe working conditions, children in the mines, terrible wages, and bad conditions generally. They have made fair wages and safe workplaces. They wove them into the fabric of American law. This is all because they had the right to organize, and that is what we are here to do. Today, we strengthen and preserve the right to organize through the Protecting the Right to Organize Act. Let's vote ``yes'' on it.
