… to win a set of wages and benefits and working conditions, that the Republican majority wants to be able to come and undercut those working conditions for those workers. Look, In a private company, it's been the law of the land for nearly 100 years that if you organize a union, if you organize and come to a collective bargaining agreement that if a new owner comes in and buys the company, those workers should have the right to continue to have their wages and working conditions honored in their collective bargaining agreements. And so it makes no sense why here we would just give a president the authority, not because there's a particular problem identified, just to give the president carte blanche … (15:55–16:18)
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Asserts that for nearly 100 years, unionized workers' agreements are honored even if company ownership changes.
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