Thread by @SenSchumer

Earlier this year, I introduced a new bill, the “Workers’ Freedom to Negotiate Act” to reform our broken labor laws & help the very workers we celebrate on #LaborDay to earn better wages.

This is especially important given the Trump Admin & GOP assault on worker rights & safety.

While President Trump promised to stand up for the working people in this country, his administration appears hell-bent on causing more harm to working families than good.

Here’s a few examples:

politico.com/story/2018/09/…

nytimes.com/2018/09/02/bus…

usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

President Trump’s rolling back much-needed reforms that keep workers safe, freezing pay for federal workers, or limiting the power of public sector unions will do nothing to help the working people in this country and instead only benefit the special interests and wealthiest.

The Workers' Freedom to Negotiate Act would right the many injustices that have been done to America’s workers throughout the country and help them actually get ahead.

democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

This new legislation would ban the often misleadingly called “right to work” state laws that undermine worker freedoms. It would also prevent employers from interfering in union elections and strengthen penalties on employers that break the law.

The Workers’ Freedom to Negotiate Act also creates a mandatory mediation & arbitration process to ensure corporations & newly formed unions reach a first contract and provide millions of public employees w/ the freedom to join a union and collectively bargain w/ their employers.

Lastly, our new bill would streamline the NLRB’s procedures to secure worker freedoms and effectively prevent violations and use federal purchasing power and policy to help expand opportunities to negotiate.