WASHINGTON—House Committee on Education and Labor Chairman Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) will convene a markup session Sept. 25 on a bill that, if passed, would abolish right-to-work laws now on the books in 27 states, and provide organized labor with its biggest boost in power in decades.
The bill—H.R. 2474, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019 (PRO Act)—has 208 House co-sponsors, all Democrats. Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) introduced the companion bill in the upper chamber, where it now has 40 Democratic co-sponsors.
