12/06/2021 10:00 AM EST
With help from Leah Nylen
FIRST IN SHIFT: Our Revolution, the progressive advocacy group Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) launched in 2016, Communications Workers Association, and the Worker Power Coalition, which includes several national unions, kick off a nationwide tour today aimed at rallying lawmakers around the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, Democrats’ wide-reaching bill that would make it easier for workers to join unions.
On the agenda: The campaign, which the group has dubbed the “‘Pass the PRO Act’ Holiday Tour,” will make its first stop outside Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s Phoenix office. The Arizona Democrat is one of just two senators in the majority who have yet to back the legislation.
Workers are planning to then trek to Tucson for a second stop targeting Sinema, as well as events aimed at other lawmakers in El Paso (Rep. Veronica Escobar); San Antonio (Rep. Henry Cuellar); Austin and Dallas; (Sen. Ted Cruz); Milwaukee (Sen. Ron Johnson); and Indianapolis (Sens. Mike Braun and Todd Young).
They’ll also visit Cleveland to ask Sen. Sherrod Brown to call for a vote on the bill, and Chicago and New York City to pressure Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) to “show real leadership” in aligning their colleagues behind the bill, as well as a handful of sites where workers have recently moved to unionize: Buffalo, N.Y., where Starbucks workers are in...
Health care entities may be able to pay less than half the steep fines ordinarily associated with False Claims Act (FCA) violations by voluntarily reporting issues under a new pilot program launche...