[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 57 (Wednesday, March 29, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H1541-H1542]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       IN SUPPORT OF LABOR UNIONS

  (Mr. MAGAZINER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MAGAZINER. Mr. Speaker, one of the best ways for workers to get 
the pay and benefits that they deserve and to raise their families and 
provide for them is to join a labor union.
  Unions have helped millions of American families join the middle 
class, including thousands in Rhode Island. The

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freedom to join a union is the most fundamental right afforded to all 
workers in this country.
  Unfortunately, that right is constantly under attack by big companies 
that spend millions and millions of dollars engaging in intimidation 
and retaliation against those seeking to exercise their right to 
unionize.
  What is worse is that companies are often allowed to write off the 
expenses for union busting from their taxes. You heard that right. All 
of us, the taxpayers of America, are paying for companies to intimidate 
workers out of joining unions.
  This has to stop. That is why I am a proud cosponsor of the No Tax 
Breaks for Union Busting Act, led by Representative Norcross because 
enough is enough. We need to make it easier in this country for workers 
to join a union if they choose to do so, and we certainly should not be 
giving tax breaks to companies to intimidate workers out of exercising 
that right.

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