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Reintroduced Protecting the Right to Organize Act

Representative Angie Craig of Minnesota helped reintroduce the bipartisan "Protecting the Right to Organize Act" this week. The act would protect workers' right to organize and collectively bargain for for higher wages, better benefits, and safer working conditions. The PRO Act achieves this by enforcing penalties on employers who violate workers' rights, strengthening support for victims of retaliation, ensuring workers can collect "fair share" fees, and more.
Source: KAAL-TV, "Worker's rights", on 2026 Minnesota Senate race , Mar 7, 2025

Extend Paycheck Protection Program for an additional 5 weeks

Growing up in a mobile home park, Angie worked two jobs to put herself through college, with the help of student loans, and worked her way up over 20 years in business to lead a workforce of 16,000 for a major Minnesota manufacturer. Today, she and her wife are moms to four young men. Since coming to Washington, Angie has introduced 35 pieces of legislation, four of which--including the Payment Integrity Information Act and a bill to extend the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for an additional five weeks--have been signed into law.

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Labor built our middle class & drives our economy

I'm working to protect the rights of our unions and their members to organize and collectively bargain for fair, safe workplaces. Labor has built our middle class, and it continues to drive our economy. Encourage companies to invest in their employees by closing tax loopholes that are currently encouraging them to move their jobs overseas. Instead, we should replace these loopholes with tax credits for companies that hire American Workers.
Source: 2018 MN-2 House campaign website AngieCraig.com , Apr 27, 2020

Create training partnerships between employers, schools

Everybody, whether they attend a four-year college or pursue a trade, should be able to find a good-paying career. That's exactly why I introduced the 21st Century Workforce Partnerships Act to create hands-on training, and work with local employers and schools to make sure these training programs work together to prepare students for the high-skill jobs available today.
Source: 2018 MN-2 House campaign website AngieCraig.com , Apr 27, 2020

Encourage industry to recruit, hire, and train veterans

We must make sure veterans have access to good healthcare and quality employment opportunities. We can do more to encourage private industry to recruit, hire, mentor and train veterans. I know it is possible because I did it myself: as a leader at a major Minnesota company, I created a program that put veterans to work in our company and across the medical technology industry.
Source: 2018 MN-2 House campaign website AngieCraig.com , Apr 27, 2020

Ensure every woman is paid fairly for equal work

I started a Women In Business program to support and mentor women in their career choices. I cosponsored the Paycheck Fairness Act, because it's time that our laws ensure every woman is paid fairly for equal work. We also must make sure that young women are being exposed to and encouraged to pursue careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields, which currently count only 23% women among their workforce.
Source: 2018 MN-2 House campaign website AngieCraig.com , Apr 27, 2020

Sponsored bill for strengthening union organizing.

Craig co-sponsored PRO Act

H.R.842 & S.420: Protecting the Right to Organize Act: This bill expands various labor protections related to employees` rights to organize and collectively bargain in the workplace:

  1. revises the definitions of employee, supervisor, and employer to broaden the scope of individuals covered by the fair labor standards;
  2. permits labor organizations to encourage participation of union members in strikes initiated by employees represented by a different labor organization (i.e., secondary strikes); and
  3. prohibits employers from bringing claims against unions that conduct such secondary strikes.
The bill also allows collective bargaining agreements to require all employees represented by the bargaining unit to contribute fees to the labor organization for the cost of such representation.

Biden Administration in SUPPORT: The Administration strongly supports The PRO Act. America was not built by Wall Street. It was built by the middle class, and unions built the middle class. Unions put power in the hands of workers. H.R. 842 would strengthen and protect workers` right to form a union by assessing penalties on employers who violate workers` right to organize.

Rep. Mo Brooks in OPPOSITION: H.R. 842 [is] a radical union bill that tramples the rights of citizens by forcing them to enter into union servitude, including:

Legislative Outcome:Passed House 222-204-4 (Rollcall 82) on 03/09/2021; received and read in the Senate on 3/23; no further Senate action during 2021.
Source: H.R.842/S.420 21-HR842 on Feb 4, 2021

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