Republicans Join Democrats in Junking Trump’s Anti-Labor Order

One of President Donald Trump’s executive orders was overturned by the House of Representatives, with a significant number of Republicans voting alongside Democrats, Carl Gibson reported for AlterNet.

The Republicans who supported the bill largely represent states with significant numbers of unionized workers. (Photo: U.S. Department of Labor Facebook) 

The AFL-CIO announced that a bipartisan majority in the House passed the Protect America’s Workforce Act (H.R. 2550), with all 211 Democrats and 20 Republicans voting in favor.

The bill would restore collective bargaining rights for more than one million federal workers, reversing Trump’s March executive order that stripped those protections.

“President Trump betrayed workers when he tried to rip away our collective bargaining rights,” AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said in a statement.

“In these increasingly polarized times, working people delivered a rare bipartisan majority to stop the administration’s unprecedented attacks on our freedoms.”

Shuler added, “We commend the Republicans and Democrats who stood with workers and voted to reverse the single largest act of union-busting in American history.”

The Republicans who supported the bill largely represent states with significant numbers of unionized workers, including Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.