Mark Pocan: “Rights they've had since 1962.”

“I rise today to urge us to pass this discharge petition. Earlier this year, Donald Trump did an illegal executive order stripping a million federal workers from their collective bargaining rights, Rights they've had since 1962. We've seen this in my home state. In 2011, Governor Scott Walker launched one of the most aggressive attacks on workers rights, stripping collective bargaining rights. What happened?” (00:12–00:16)

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