[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 9, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H1179]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                SUPPORTING WORKERS BY SUPPORTING UNIONS

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in 
support of our Nation's greatest asset, our workers, our essential 
workers--nurses, teachers, mail carriers, transportation, sanitation, 
and food industry workers, among so many others--who have lifted the 
Nation with their sacrifice and bravery.
  Just as they have supported us, we must support them by supporting 
unions. Attacks on unions, and a series of significant actions by the 
former administration, have weakened worker protections and, in turn, 
destroyed the middle class.
  That is why I was proud to just vote to pass the Protecting the Right 
to Organize Act, the most significant upgrade for workers' collective 
bargaining rights in more than 80 years.
  If we are to fully recover from this deadly pandemic and build back 
better, we must invest in and protect the rights of our workers to 
unionize. American workers and their families are depending on us.

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