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H.R.20 Protecting the Right to Organize Act
Protecting the Right to Organize Act — strengthens workers' right to form unions and bargain collectively, with penalties for union-busting employers (118th Congress)
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Strengthens NLRA organizing protections; EPI estimates 60M workers want but can't form unions.
29 U.S.C. § 151 et seq. (NLRA)
- NLRB — 29 U.S.C. § 151 et seq. (National Labor Relations Act), official text
Protecting the Right to Organize Act — comprehensive labor law reform. The bill restores protections eroded since the NLRA, addressing the decline in union membership from 35% (1954) to 10% (2023). ILO conventions recognize collective bargaining as a fundamental right.