Mark Pocan: “I rise today to urge us to pass this discharge petition. Earlier this year, Donald Trump did an illegal executive order…”

“I rise today to urge us to pass this discharge petition. Earlier this year, Donald Trump did an illegal executive order, stripping a million Federal workers from their collective bargaining rights, rights they have had since 1962. We have seen this in my home State. In 2011, Governor Scott Walker launched one of the most aggressive attacks on workers' rights, stripping collective bargaining rights. What happened? Our School of Education had a two-thirds drop in people applying to be teachers. We lost long-term public employees. That affected services. This bill will restore longstanding collective bargaining protections and ensure that any future administration cannot demolish these rights again. We hear our Federal employees across the country. We value them, and we are fighting with them. We stand on behalf of the Federal workers that are negatively affected by the President's actions.”