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House of Representatives
Session of 2019 - 2020 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: March 6, 2019 09:24 AM
From: Representative Maureen E. Madden and Rep. Thomas L. Mehaffie, III
To: All House members
Subject: Strengthening Collective Bargaining
 
Over the past century, working Pennsylvanians saw greater increases in their standard of living during periods of increased unionization. Corporate special interests are funding anti-worker campaigns in order to weaken unions. The result of these efforts will likely negatively impact the wages, healthcare, workplace safety, and retirement of our teachers, police officers, firefighters, nurses and countless other government workers who serve and protect us. This divide and conquer economic warfare on the middle class must be stopped.

Our legislation attempts to stem this assault on working people by strengthening the opportunity for them to form unions and stick together. Economic gains for working Pennsylvanians did not come quickly or easily. Yet thanks to anti-worker efforts, economic gains have been rolled back with the goal to seemingly eliminate them for all. Across the board in every “right to work” state there are lower wages, higher medical costs, greater retirement insecurity, as well higher poverty, infant mortality, and workplace deaths.

“Right to work” is a fallacy and a distraction meant to divide working people and pay them less. If left unchecked, these anti-worker efforts will weaken our middle class and likely increase inequality. Only through strength in numbers have working Pennsylvanians really ever found economic progress.

Please join us in standing with our firefighters, police officers, teachers, caseworkers, and every government worker by co-sponsoring this important piece of legislation.

This is a reintroduction of the Workforce Freedom Act (former House Bill 2606) of the 2017-2018 Legislative Session.



Introduced as HB1178