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Congress

Workers Rights

NLRB: No more dodging labor law with temp agencies and franchise structures

Workers will soon bargain with all companies that have a say in their working conditions — not just the one whose name is on their paycheck.
National

Back in charge, House Republicans cut ‘labor’ from committee name

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

GOP House strips union rights from staff

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

Biden and Congress force a contract on rail workers

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

Major Senate Breakthrough

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

Bill would end tax benefits for union busting

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

U.S. House staffers win union rights

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

American Rescue

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

How the COVID relief bill saves union pensions

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

House re-passes the PRO Act

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

New COVID relief bill passes Congress, signed by president

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

Democrats–and Herrera-Beutler–vote to cut drug prices

The bill allows Medicare to negotiate with drug companies to get lower prices on insulin and single-source brand-name drugs that don’t have generic version.
National

Congress looks at failing multi-employer pensions

One solution, favored by many Democrats, is to have the Treasury step in to help.
National

GOP finalizes tax cuts

The newly passed law contains the biggest corporate tax cut in history, and nearly all its benefits go to the richest Americans.
Retirement

GOP Congress to states: Stop helping workers save for retirement

Five states, including Oregon, are setting up low-fee retirement accounts for workers without any employer-sponsored plan.

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