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Friday, March 12, 2021
Biden Signs Sixth COVID-19 Aid Package Into Law. President Joe Biden promised the country an enormous economic rescue plan, and this week he delivered. On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a massive $1.9 trillion aid package that was passed using the arcane budget reconciliation process in Congress. Zero Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate voted in favor of the legislation. We have all the details on how the law addresses individual stimulus checks, unemployment insurance, multiemployer pension plans, increased workplace safety enforcement, and more.
PRO Act Passes House. On March 9, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of 2021 (H.R. 842) by a vote of 225–206. Five Republicans voted in favor of the bill, and one Democrat, Representative Henry Cuellar (TX-28), voted against the bill. The bill would, among
House Approves Pro-Union Bill Aimed at Expanding Protections for Labor Union Organizing
The U.S. House of Representatives on March 9 narrowly approved legislation pushed by Democrats that would expand protections for labor union organizing and collective bargaining and amend decades-old labor law.
The bill, called the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, was approved in a 225-206 vote, with five Republicans joining Democrats in favor of the sweeping labor rights bill. It now faces an all-but-certain Republican blockade in a narrowly divided Senate and is unlikely to become law.
A different version of the legislation was approved by the Democratic-controlled House last year, but wasn’t taken up by the Senate.
Friday, March 5, 2021
Biz Groups Are a “No” on PRO. As the
Buzz mentioned last week, the U.S. House of Representatives is teeing up a vote on the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of 2021 (H.R. 842/S. 420) to occur sometime next week. In anticipation of the vote, this week the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace sent a letter opposing the legislation to members of Congress. Signed by 248 organizations, the letter states that the PRO ACT “would drastically restructure America’s labor laws resulting in economic upheaval that would cost millions of American jobs, threaten vital supply chains, and greatly diminish opportunities for entrepreneurs and small businesses.”
On a recent episode of
The Wrestling Inc. Daily, Wrestling Inc. Managing Editor Nick Hausman sat down with top labor lawyer Lucas Middlebrook. Middlebrook has represented many groups from airlines workers to NBA and MLS referees to former UFC fighter Leslie Smith, who was on the podcast recently to talk about her organizing efforts to form a pro fighters association. Middlebrook discussed more of his background on the podcast.
“The firm that I’m a partner with now, I originally started working for while I was in law school, and that was one of the main focuses of that firm’s practice was labor law and to most extent labor law on the union side of things,” Middlebrook explained. “And so I interned with that firm for a few years in law school, and then I was hired on full-time right out of law school and have not moved since.