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We Need Stronger Labor Unions to Protect the Middle Class
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June 6, 2019 | OPINION | Labor law in our country is profoundly broken. The National Labor Relations Act is the federal statute that protects the right of employees to join a union, engage in collective bargaining or just stand together with coworkers to have a say in what happens at work. Congress passed the law in 1935 to “encourage collective bargaining.” But the NLRA is failing to fulfill this purpose…The NLRA needs a major overhaul. Recent efforts to amend it have been more in the category of tinkering with than rewriting the rules. The last major effort to amend the NLRA came at the beginning of the Obama Administration with a push to pass the Employee Free Choice Act… Newsweek
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