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House Democrats Pass Bill That Would Protect Worker Organizing Efforts

The PRO Act would provide protections to workers trying to organize, limiting what companies can do to disrupt union membership campaigns. The bill is unlikely to advance in the Senate.
Seen here during a 2020 news conference, Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., is the lead House sponsor of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which passed the House on Tuesday.

House Democrats have approved a bill that would provide protections for workers trying to organize, a measure that is the labor movement's single biggest legislative priority in this Congress.

The passed Tuesday with a , with five Republicans joining Democrats in favor of it. The bill is unlikely to advance in the Senate, given a lack of Republican

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