WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-led House was poised Tuesday to pass legislation that would invigorate workers’ unions, following decades of court defeats and legislative setbacks that have kneecapped the labor movement’s once-formidable ability to organize.
But the measure, which union leaders and labor allies have presented as a cure for decades of working class wage-stagnation, faces an all-but-certain Republican blockade in a narrowly divided Senate and is unlikely to become law.
In an angry floor speech, Rep. Tim Ryan excoriated most Republicans for opposing the measure, pointedly asking when Congress would pass something to “help the damn workers.”
“Heaven forbid we tilt the balance that has been going in
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