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Fri Feb 7, 2020, 03:43 PM Feb 2020

Did you see the House passed HR 2474? No? I wonder why not?

Of course nobody has heard about this. The media are too busy watching Clownface von Fuckstick prance around. Here's what HR 2474 is: The Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019. Unlike the scam names Republicans like to put on their legislation, this one actually protects the rights of workers to organize and bargain collectively with their employer.

The House website for this bill is here.

This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act and related labor laws to extend protections to union workers. Specifically, it revises the definition of "employee" and "supervisor" to prevent employers from classifying employees as exempt from labor law protections, expands unfair labor practices to include prohibitions against replacement of or discrimination against workers who participate in strikes, makes it an unfair labor practice to require or coerce employees to attend employer meetings designed to discourage union membership, permits workers to participate in collective or class action litigation, allows injunctions against employers engaging in unfair labor practices involving discharge or serious economic harm to an employee, expands penalties for labor law violations, including interference with the National Labor Relations Board or causing serious economic harm to an employee, and allows any person to bring a civil action for harm caused by labor law violations or unfair labor practices.


The bill will die a quiet death in the Senate, unremarked, and interred in an unmarked grave. But wouldn't it be a hoot if someone asked President Shoutycrackers what he's doing about the do-nothing House passing this bill? You know, stalwart man of the people and friend of the working class that he likes to say he is?
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