This Law Would Empower Union Bosses and Hurt Workers

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🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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A bill in the House of Representatives would make sweeping changes to American labor laws and give union bosses an enormous amount of power. Rachel Greszler, a research fellow in economics, the budget, and entitlements at The Heritage Foundation, joined The Daily Signal to talk about the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which--among other things would violate workers' privacy and severely restrict contract work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, February 7th. I'm Rachel
0:09.0	Dall Judas. And I'm Jarrett Stetman. Today I'll be interviewing Rachel Gresler on the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which could fundamentally transform labor law in America.
0:19.0	And don't forget, if you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to leave a review or a five-star
0:24.8	rating on Apple Podcasts and encourage others to subscribe.
0:28.7	Now on to our top news. this.
0:36.0	President Donald Trump made his first public appearance after his impeachment acquittal on Thursday morning.
0:42.0	Trump was acquitted in the Senate on both impeachment articles, abuse of power and obstruction
0:46.2	of Congress.
0:47.3	At the National Prayer Breakfast, also attended by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Trump raised up two
0:52.2	newspapers with headlines that said acquitted in bold font.
0:56.3	He blasted the entire impeachment process.
0:59.2	As everybody knows, my family, our great country, and your president have been put through a terrible
1:08.4	ordeal by some very dishonest and corrupt people.
1:15.0	They have done everything possible to destroy us
1:20.0	and by so doing, very badly hurt our nation.
1:25.0	At a new press conference on Thursday, Trump again held up a newspaper with an acquitted headline.
1:32.0	Trump said that through the whole impeachment saga, he was, quote,
1:35.0	treated unbelievably unfairly.
1:38.0	And we were treated unbelievably unfairly.
1:42.0	And you have to understand we first went through Russia Russia
1:47.1	Russia it was all bullshit we then went through the Mueller report and they should have come back one day later
1:58.9	they didn't they came back two years later after lives were ruined after people went bankrupt after
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