Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. ELLISON. This particular piece of legislation that undermines unions makes it more difficult to organize and generally frustrates American working men and women from organizing on the job takes place just a few weeks after the Republican majority was trying to take down the Clean Air Act and the EPA. When you look at the Republican job approach, their argument seems to be that workers and people who want to breathe are the problem with the American economy. People who want to drink clean water and breathe clean air and people who want to have some rights to the job, they're the reason why the American economy doesn't work. Well, that happens to be about 99 percent of us, Mr. Chairman.

I hope that as people are watching this debate on this floor today, that they're taking careful note of who is on the side of the American worker, who is on the side of Americans trying to breathe and to have clean air. And what in the world does getting rid of the Clean Air Act and gutting unions have to do with making American jobs?

The fact is the Republican majority is abandoning their responsibility to create jobs, and I hope the American worker is watching today.

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