The U.S. House of Representatives on March 9 narrowly approved legislation pushed by Democrats that would expand protections for labor union organizing and collective bargaining and amend decades-old labor law.
The bill, called the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, was approved in a 225-206 vote, with five Republicans joining Democrats in favor of the sweeping labor rights bill. It now faces an all-but-certain Republican blockade in a narrowly divided Senate and is unlikely to become law.
