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In her opening salvo on the House floor, the committee chair made her hostility to the word labor and to unions crystal clear.

The anti-union language was included in the first bill to pass the newly Republican-led chamber during the 118th Congress.

History may remember the episode as a betrayal by the man who pledged to be the most pro-union president in U.S. history.

A greatly scaled down Build Back Better bill will still spur climate jobs, cut drug prices, and limit corporate tax avoidance.

A bill in Congress would end an unintentional tax benefit for corporations that try to stop their employees from unionizing.

Union Organizing

Congressional staffers have long had the right to unionize, in theory. Now, they’re getting the legal protection to do so.

Signed into law March 11, a year after COVID was declared a pandemic, the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill took effect almost immediately.

The just-passed COVID relief bill will rescue and restore over 100 declining union pension plans.

The U.S. House passed the PRO Act—labor’s top priority—March 9. Five Republicans joined all but one Democrat voting yes.

A new round of aid is headed to jobless workers, struggling businesses and to people who are doing just fine.