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WAGE Act Would Strengthen and Protect Workers

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WAGE Act Would Strengthen and Protect Workers — Leading democrats are calling for passage of the Workplace Action for a Growing Economy (WAGE) Act introduced by Senator Patty Murray (D-Washington, DC) and Representative Bobby Scott (D-Virginia). The bill would ament the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) of 1935 to solidify and strengthen worker protections for all workers, union or not. The American workplace has changed dramatically since the labor law was reformed to constrain worker power and then “frozen.”

Under the proposed legislation union organizers would be protected. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, who is helping to lead the push for its passing, says that labor rules “for too long have been rigged against working people” and called the measure “a critical first step in addressing both a changing economy and labor laws that have failed to keep up with a changing workplace.”







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