By NICK NIEDZWIADEK and ELEANOR MUELLER
08/15/2022 10:00 AM EDT
With help from Alex Daugherty
ONE MORE TIME: After Congress cleared Democrats’ party-line package last week without a provision that would have reformed labor law to allow fines on employers, unions are prepping a last-ditch effort to convince the Senate to hold a vote on the Protecting the Right to Organize Act next month when lawmakers return from August recess.
No one expects them to pass it. But “our folks want to know where people stand, in a more formal way than whatever they'll tell them in a meeting or something back home,” Communications Workers of America’s Dan Mauer told Eleanor Friday. “They really want people to go on the record.”
CWA, SEIU, IUPAT, UAW and other unions are leading the charge as part of the Worker Power Coalition, Mauer said, which also includes other progressive organizations. It has been pushing for floor action on the bill since last year. This time, they’re up against a packed legislative agenda that includes issues like appropriations, policing, and antitrust.
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