Labor/Employment,
Government
Mar. 5, 2021
Labor overhaul may not pass Congress, but could make policy
Opinions are now divided on whether the bill, which substantially amends the National Labor Relations Act to make it easier for workers to unionize and is widely known as the PRO Act, will see the approval of Congress in 2021. But if many still have doubts that the bill will become law.
When the House of Representatives considers the Protecting the Right to Organize Act next week, lawmakers will be facing different circumstances than when they approved an earlier version of the bill in 2020. If the general sentiment last year was that the sweeping bill to change labor law was doomed -- one the Republican-controlled Senate quickly confirmed when it declined to take the bill up -- the election of an explicitly pro-union presidential administration, and...
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