Gallego's Striking Bill
Senators Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) are introducing legislation prohibiting employers from stripping healthcare benefits from striking workers.
Sen. Gallego's Striking and Locked Out Workers Healthcare Protection Act ends a common practice by employers to threaten strikers with revoking or modifying the company's healthcare benefits, a tactic that circumvents the National Labor Relations Act's (NLRA) ruling that striking is a protected activity.
Specifically, the bill adds the removal of healthcare benefits as a separate category of unfair labor practices and increases civil penalties for employers who engage in such practices.
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The Snakebite is written by Grayson Bakich and Javier Manjarres
