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Resolution — H. Res. 1528, Rights of Restaurant Workers (House)

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H. Res. 1528 is a resolution introduced in the House of Representatives on December 16, 2022 by Ms. Tlaib (for herself, Mr. García of Illinois, and Ms. Newman), titled Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to protect the rights of restaurant workers. The preamble states that, as of 2022, there are over 11 million restaurant workers in the United States. The resolution states the sense of the House of Representatives that it is the duty of the Federal Government to develop a restaurant workers' bill of rights, with rights including a thriving life, healing and rest, a safe and dignified work environment, healthcare and bodily autonomy, and participation in governance.

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                                                                                                                                                                            IV




                                                                       117TH CONGRESS
                                                                          2D SESSION
                                                                                                            H. RES. 1528
                                                                            Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to protect the rights of
                                                                                                      restaurant workers.




                                                                                     IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                                                                                                   DECEMBER 16, 2022
                                                                       Ms. TLAIB (for herself, Mr. GARCÍA of Illinois, and Ms. NEWMAN) submitted
                                                                           the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Edu-
                                                                           cation and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and
                                                                           Means, the Judiciary, Financial Services, Energy and Commerce, Agri-
                                                                           culture, Oversight and Reform, Armed Services, Veterans’ Affairs, Nat-
                                                                           ural Resources, Foreign Affairs, and House Administration, for a period
                                                                           to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
                                                                           ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee
                                                                           concerned




                                                                                                   RESOLUTION
                                                                         Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to protect
                                                                                      the rights of restaurant workers.

                                                                       Whereas as of 2022—
                                                                                (1) there are over 11 million restaurant workers in
                                                                          the United States, comprising over 10-percent of the
                                                                          overall workforce; and
                                                                                (2) over 60-percent of American adults report work-
                                                                          ing in the restaurant industry at some point during their




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                                                                          lives and 48-percent report having held their first regular
                                                                          job in a restaurant;



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                                                                       Whereas the restaurant industry workforce is extremely di-
                                                                          verse, in which—
                                                                               (1) 54-percent are women and nearly 1⁄2 are workers
                                                                          of color;
                                                                               (2) Latino and Latina workers are the most rep-
                                                                          resented racial or ethnic group in the restaurant indus-
                                                                          try; and
                                                                               (3) over 1⁄5 of restaurant workers are immigrants,
                                                                          who are denied access to public programs simply because
                                                                          of their immigration status;
                                                                       Whereas more than 1⁄3 of all women working in the res-
                                                                          taurant industry are mothers, and well over 1⁄2 of those
                                                                          are single moms.
                                                                       Whereas restaurant workers live in poverty at nearly 3 times
                                                                          the rate of the general workforce, and access food stamps
                                                                          and Medicaid at nearly twice the rate of the overall work-
                                                                          force.
                                                                       Whereas employers in 16 States are permitted to pay res-
                                                                          taurant workers just $2.13 an hour before tips, a tipped
                                                                          minimum cash wage that Congress has not raised since
                                                                          1991 and that exacerbates the economic impacts of
                                                                          sexism and racism, as demonstrated by the fact that in
                                                                          those 16 States—
                                                                               (1) the racial divide in poverty levels is exacerbated,
                                                                          with restaurant workers of color living in poverty at levels
                                                                          3.9 percentage points higher than white restaurant work-
                                                                          ers; and
                                                                               (2) sexual harassment is higher than in the States
                                                                          where employers are required to pay the full minimum




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                                                                          wage with tips on top;
                                                                       Whereas 23.5-percent of workers in the restaurant industry
                                                                          lived without health coverage in 2017, which is nearly tri-
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                                                                               ple the national rate, and only 31-percent of restaurants
                                                                               offer health insurance coverage for their staff according
                                                                               to a survey of restaurant owners;
                                                                       Whereas low wages, unjust working conditions, and bans on
                                                                          abortion coverage like the Hyde Amendment, all interfere
                                                                          with someone’s ability to make their own decisions about
                                                                          pregnancy and whether to become a parent, and dis-
                                                                          proportionately affect women and people of color;
                                                                       Whereas wage theft, discrimination, and other violations of
                                                                          wage and hour law are extremely common in the res-
                                                                          taurant industry, and restaurant workers are more likely
                                                                          to experience discrimination in restaurants, including sex
                                                                          discrimination, discrimination against parents, racism
                                                                          and racist hiring practices;
                                                                       Whereas the rate of sexual harassment among female res-
                                                                          taurant workers is the highest of any industry, with fe-
                                                                          male workers filing sexual harassment charges at twice
                                                                          the rate of the general workforce, with one survey of res-
                                                                          taurant industry workers finding that more than 70-per-
                                                                          cent of women reported having experienced some form of
                                                                          sexual harassment in the workplace;
                                                                       Whereas since the United States is currently the only OECD
                                                                          country with no national paid family leave and one of the
                                                                          few high-income countries without a national family
                                                                          caregiving or medical leave policy, the majority of res-
                                                                          taurant workers have no guaranteed paid or unpaid
                                                                          leave;
                                                                       Whereas in a survey of COVID impacts on the restaurant in-
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                                                                          their workplace tested positive for COVID–19 and 68-
                                                                          percent said that the virus impacted their workplaces

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                                                                               with them or their coworkers testing positive, and one in
                                                                               ten restaurant workers went to work with COVID–19
                                                                               symptoms because of economic pressures;
                                                                       Whereas nearly 6 million restaurant workers lost their jobs
                                                                          in 2020, disproportionately impacting women and work-
                                                                          ers of color; and
                                                                       Whereas unemployment in the restaurant industry in the
                                                                          United States was 41.8-percent in April 2020, at the
                                                                          height of the pandemic, which was more than twice the
                                                                          rate of unemployment in the private sector overall: Now,
                                                                          therefore, be it
                                                                         1              Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
                                                                         2 resentatives that—
                                                                         3                       (1) it is the duty of the Federal Government to
                                                                         4              develop a restaurant workers’ bill of rights through
                                                                         5              transparent inclusive consultation, collaboration, and
                                                                         6              partnership with restaurant workers, including mem-
                                                                         7              bers of frontline and vulnerable communities, labor
                                                                         8              unions, civil society groups, academia, and busi-
                                                                         9              nesses to ensure that restaurant workers have—
                                                                       10                                  (A) the right to a thriving life by being
                                                                       11                        paid a thriving wage, having access to safe, sta-
                                                                       12                        ble and sufficient housing and affordable
                                                                       13                        childcare, and being economically secure in re-
                                                                       14                        tirement;




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                                                                       15                                  (B) the right to healing and rest by having
                                                                       16                        paid time to recover from illness, care for fam-


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                                                                         1                       ily members, and engage in life outside of work
                                                                         2                       as well as consistent schedules that allow their
                                                                         3                       families to thrive;
                                                                         4                                 (C) the right to a safe and dignified work
                                                                         5                       environment by ensuring restaurant workers are
                                                                         6                       safe from discrimination and harassment in the
                                                                         7                       workplace;
                                                                         8                                 (D) the right to healthcare and bodily au-
                                                                         9                       tonomy by making certain that all restaurant
                                                                       10                        workers have access to comprehensive and af-
                                                                       11                        fordable healthcare, including a full range of re-
                                                                       12                        productive and gender-affirming care; and
                                                                       13                                  (E) the right to participation in govern-
                                                                       14                        ance by exercising their rights as citizens, vot-
                                                                       15                        ers, activists, and organizers at all levels of gov-
                                                                       16                        ernment and at our workplaces, free from pres-
                                                                       17                        sure and coercion from employers;
                                                                       18                        (2) the right to a thriving life will be imple-
                                                                       19               mented by—
                                                                       20                                  (A) enacting a Federal law requiring all
                                                                       21                        tipped and non-tipped restaurant workers to be
                                                                       22                        paid a full thriving wage, which would eliminate
                                                                       23                        the tip credit and prohibit employers from pay-




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                                                                       24                        ing workers anything less than the full min-
                                                                       25                        imum wage, with tips on top;


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                                                                         1                                 (B) exploring options to provide retirement
                                                                         2                       benefits to all workers regardless of the type of
                                                                         3                       employment or level of compensation the worker
                                                                         4                       received through the course of their work his-
                                                                         5                       tory, including by expanding Social Security or
                                                                         6                       establishing funded portable retirement ac-
                                                                         7                       counts;
                                                                         8                                 (C) exploring the viability of a Federal
                                                                         9                       guaranteed basic income program;
                                                                       10                                  (D) ensuring enforcement of wage and
                                                                       11                        hour regulations by—
                                                                       12                                         (i) providing a private right of action
                                                                       13                                  for affected workers in the restaurant in-
                                                                       14                                  dustry;
                                                                       15                                         (ii) increasing Federal resources for
                                                                       16                                  investigation and enforcement of wage vio-
                                                                       17                                  lations in the restaurant industry;
                                                                       18                                         (iii) engaging in strategic enforcement
                                                                       19                                  of the restaurant industry, which includes
                                                                       20                                  conducting proactive, rather than reactive,
                                                                       21                                  investigations;
                                                                       22                                         (iv) developing sustained partnerships
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                                                                       24                                  organizations, and other community-based
                                                                       25                                  organizations that are embedded in res-


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                                                                         1                                 taurant worker communities to conduct in-
                                                                         2                                 vestigations;
                                                                         3                                        (v) investing resources into informa-
                                                                         4                                 tional campaigns to businesses and know
                                                                         5                                 your rights campaigns for workers;
                                                                         6                                        (vi) strengthening penalties and rem-
                                                                         7                                 edies for wage violations in the restaurant
                                                                         8                                 industry and engaging in robust compli-
                                                                         9                                 ance agreements with violators; and
                                                                       10                                         (vii) ensuring that employers are sub-
                                                                       11                                  ject to penalties if they retaliate against
                                                                       12                                  restaurant workers who report wage viola-
                                                                       13                                  tions;
                                                                       14                                  (E) modernizing and reforming Federal
                                                                       15                        unemployment insurance laws to—
                                                                       16                                         (i)       guarantee              universal            minimum
                                                                       17                                  standards for benefits eligibility, duration,
                                                                       18                                  and adequacy, with States free to enact
                                                                       19                                  more expansive benefits;
                                                                       20                                         (ii) reform financing of Federal unem-
                                                                       21                                  ployment insurance to eliminate incentives
                                                                       22                                  for States and employers to exclude work-
                                                                       23                                  ers, reduce benefits, and contest valid




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                                                                         1                                        (iii) update eligibility standards to
                                                                         2                                 match the modern workforce, and guar-
                                                                         3                                 antee benefits to underemployed and part
                                                                         4                                 time workers, and everyone looking for
                                                                         5                                 work but still jobless through no fault of
                                                                         6                                 their own, including workers engaged in
                                                                         7                                 caregiving; and
                                                                         8                                        (iv) enact a Federal requirement that
                                                                         9                                 all States provide at least 26 weeks of UI
                                                                       10                                  benefits, and use better measures of labor
                                                                       11                                  market distress to automatically extend
                                                                       12                                  and sustain benefits during downturns;
                                                                       13                                  (F) requiring that large companies and
                                                                       14                        franchisors first offer rehiring opportunities to
                                                                       15                        former employees, before hiring new employees,
                                                                       16                        to stop employers from cutting costs by letting
                                                                       17                        go of their experienced, higher-paid workers in
                                                                       18                        favor of new, lower-paid workers;
                                                                       19                                  (G) eliminating at-will employment and en-
                                                                       20                        acting just cause termination policies that—
                                                                       21                                         (i) require that employers have just
                                                                       22                                  cause for termination of employment;
                                                                       23                                         (ii) ensure that employers’ rules and




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                                                                       24                                  regulations (those which if broken could
                                                                       25                                  cause termination) are standardized, just,


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                                                                         1                                 reasonable, and are in place to make the
                                                                         2                                 workplace safe and legal;
                                                                         3                                        (iii) place the burden of proof that an
                                                                         4                                 employee is in violation of any such rule of
                                                                         5                                 regulation on the employer;
                                                                         6                                        (iv) ensure that employers thoroughly
                                                                         7                                 inform employees regarding fireable of-
                                                                         8                                 fenses;
                                                                         9                                        (v) require that employers provide em-
                                                                       10                                  ployees with ample notice regarding viola-
                                                                       11                                  tions;
                                                                       12                                         (vi) ensure that employers carry out a
                                                                       13                                  thorough and just investigation when a
                                                                       14                                  worker is accused of a fireable offense;
                                                                       15                                         (vii) ensure that employees are not re-
                                                                       16                                  taliated against by employers for exercising
                                                                       17                                  their right to contest termination in a judi-
                                                                       18                                  cial or internal process; and
                                                                       19                                         (viii) ensure that traditionally ex-
                                                                       20                                  cluded workers like domestic, agriculture,
                                                                       21                                  and undocumented workers are included in
                                                                       22                                  any such policies;
                                                                       23                                  (H) enacting policies that help ensure af-




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                                                                       24                        fordable housing as a human right for all
                                                                       25                        Americans, including by—


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                                                                         1                                         (i) modernizing the current Federal
                                                                         2                                 Housing program to ensure free, quality
                                                                         3                                 federally funded subsidies, support, and
                                                                         4                                 guidance for restaurant workers to obtain
                                                                         5                                 affordable housing and mitigate bureau-
                                                                         6                                 cratic obstacles;
                                                                         7                                         (ii) increasing investment in building
                                                                         8                                 and preserving affordable housing to ad-
                                                                         9                                 dress the severe shortage of affordable
                                                                       10                                  homes for people with low incomes;
                                                                       11                                          (iii) taking expanded steps to prevent
                                                                       12                                  evictions, including by establishing a na-
                                                                       13                                  tional housing stabilization fund to help
                                                                       14                                  families facing a financial shock avoid evic-
                                                                       15                                  tion;
                                                                       16                                          (iv) taking steps to advance fair hous-
                                                                       17                                  ing and racial equity in housing, including
                                                                       18                                  improving enforcement of the Fair Hous-
                                                                       19                                  ing Act and expanding it to prohibit hous-
                                                                       20                                  ing discrimination based on sexual orienta-
                                                                       21                                  tion and gender identity; and
                                                                       22                                          (v) allocating additional resources to
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                                                                       24                                  (I)     investing             in       a     robust,             qualified
                                                                       25                        childcare system that is accessible to all work-


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                                                                         1                       ers, regardless of their ability to pay or their
                                                                         2                       immigration status, by—
                                                                         3                                         (i) establishing free, quality federally
                                                                         4                                 funded training programs and advance-
                                                                         5                                 ment opportunities for early educators;
                                                                         6                                         (ii) ensuring child care providers
                                                                         7                                 make a thriving wage to support them-
                                                                         8                                 selves and their families and thrive;
                                                                         9                                         (iii) ensuring equal access to childcare
                                                                       10                                  for all parents and caretakers, not just
                                                                       11                                  birthing mothers;
                                                                       12                                          (iv) ensuring a wide variety of funded
                                                                       13                                  options that meet caretakers’ diverse and
                                                                       14                                  unique needs;
                                                                       15                                          (v) expanding the funding and scope
                                                                       16                                  of the Maternal, Infant, and Early Child-
                                                                       17                                  hood Home Visiting Program; and
                                                                       18                                          (vi) ensuring access to free, quality,
                                                                       19                                  nontraditional hour care, including night
                                                                       20                                  care;
                                                                       21                        (3) the right to healing and rest will be imple-
                                                                       22               mented by—
                                                                       23                                  (A) a Federal requirement that employers




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                                                                       24                        provide paid sick, family, medical and vacation
                                                                       25                        leave to all restaurant workers regardless of


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                                                                         1                       their immigration status, implemented through
                                                                         2                       the enactment of—
                                                                         3                                        (i) Federal legislation that guarantees
                                                                         4                                 all employees a minimum amount of paid
                                                                         5                                 family and medical leave, with continued
                                                                         6                                 health insurance coverage and meaningful
                                                                         7                                 wage replacement during leave, and with
                                                                         8                                 guaranteed job security and protection
                                                                         9                                 from retaliation upon the employee’s re-
                                                                       10                                  turn from leave;
                                                                       11                                         (ii) Federal legislation that entitles all
                                                                       12                                  workers to a minimum number of paid
                                                                       13                                  days of vacation; and
                                                                       14                                         (iii) Federal legislation that mandates
                                                                       15                                  a minimum number of hours of paid sick
                                                                       16                                  and safe leave per calendar year for per-
                                                                       17                                  sonal and family care regardless of posi-
                                                                       18                                  tion, tenure, and hours worked per week;
                                                                       19                                  and
                                                                       20                                  (B) a Federal requirement that busi-
                                                                       21                        nesses—
                                                                       22                                         (i) post employees’ work schedules at
                                                                       23                                  least two weeks in advance or not later




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                                                                       24                                  than a certain number of days before their
                                                                       25                                  shift begins;


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                                                                         1                                        (ii) ensure adequate rest between
                                                                         2                                 shifts;
                                                                         3                                        (iii) provide employees with additional
                                                                         4                                 pay when employers make last-minute
                                                                         5                                 schedule changes and for on-call shifts;
                                                                         6                                        (iv) allow employees to make sched-
                                                                         7                                 uling requests or decline schedule changes
                                                                         8                                 without fear of retaliation;
                                                                         9                                        (v) offer newly available hours to
                                                                       10                                  qualified existing staff before making new
                                                                       11                                  hires; and
                                                                       12                                         (vi) ensure that employees not be pe-
                                                                       13                                  nalized or retaliated against for lawful ab-
                                                                       14                                  sences under no-fault attendance policies.
                                                                       15                        (4) the right to a safe and dignified work envi-
                                                                       16               ronment will be implemented by—
                                                                       17                                  (A) taking steps to ensure workplace
                                                                       18                        health and safety in the restaurant industry, in-
                                                                       19                        cluding by—
                                                                       20                                         (i) requiring employers, with input
                                                                       21                                  from employees, to develop, adopt, and dis-
                                                                       22                                  tribute plans, which must at a minimum
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                                                                       24                                  OSHA, to protect employees’ health and
                                                                       25                                  safety at work that must be activated when


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                                                                         1                                 a Federal or State pandemic state of emer-
                                                                         2                                 gency is declared;
                                                                         3                                        (ii) requiring employers to train all
                                                                         4                                 workers on hazards and the measures the
                                                                         5                                 employer has implemented in the work-
                                                                         6                                 place to protect workers from dangers in-
                                                                         7                                 cluding working with sharp knives, elec-
                                                                         8                                 trical       hazards,              slippery        and           cluttered
                                                                         9                                 floors, fire hazards and burns from cooking
                                                                       10                                  equipment and hot food, musculoskeletal
                                                                       11                                  disorders, dangerous cleaning and other
                                                                       12                                  chemicals,               workplace               violence,            and
                                                                       13                                  COVID–19;
                                                                       14                                         (iii) requiring employers to permit em-
                                                                       15                                  ployees at a worksite to establish a joint
                                                                       16                                  labor-management workplace safety com-
                                                                       17                                  mittee where employee members can raise
                                                                       18                                  health and safety concerns, hazards, com-
                                                                       19                                  plaints, and violations to the employer to
                                                                       20                                  which the employer must respond;
                                                                       21                                         (iv) improving enforcement of existing
                                                                       22                                  workplace safety laws and better funding
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                                                                         1                                         (v) re-examining existing anti-retalia-
                                                                         2                                 tion protections, lack of a worker’s private
                                                                         3                                 right of action, current standards, and
                                                                         4                                 penalties and sanctions for workplace safe-
                                                                         5                                 ty violations and, if necessary, updating
                                                                         6                                 them to make sure they are effective;
                                                                         7                                 (B) enacting Federal policies to reduce the
                                                                         8                       high rate of sex (including sexual orientation
                                                                         9                       and gender identity) dicrimination, racial dis-
                                                                       10                        crimination, and other forms of employment
                                                                       11                        discrimination in the restaurant industry by—
                                                                       12                                          (i) improving enforcement of existing
                                                                       13                                  laws on employment discrimination and
                                                                       14                                  better funding the Federal agencies tasked
                                                                       15                                  with enforcing those laws;
                                                                       16                                          (ii) clarifying and enforcing Federal
                                                                       17                                  laws regarding independent contractors to
                                                                       18                                  fight misclassification of employees in in-
                                                                       19                                  dustries such as the on-demand economy;
                                                                       20                                          (iii) eliminating the use of the ‘‘felony
                                                                       21                                  box’’ in job applications by expanding the
                                                                       22                                  Federal ban the box law to private compa-
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                                                                       24                                          (iv) enacting equal pay policies to
                                                                       25                                  eliminate currently existing gender and ra-


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                                                                         1                                 cial pay disparities and adding significant
                                                                         2                                 penalties for employers who refuse to com-
                                                                         3                                 ply;
                                                                         4                                        (v) ensuring that employers treat
                                                                         5                                 part-time and full-time employees equally
                                                                         6                                 when they hold substantially similar jobs;
                                                                         7                                 and
                                                                         8                                        (vi) establishing better mechanisms
                                                                         9                                 for workers to report discrimination with-
                                                                       10                                  out fear of retaliation, especially for un-
                                                                       11                                  documented workers, and ensuring that
                                                                       12                                  employers are subject to penalties if they
                                                                       13                                  retaliate against workers who report dis-
                                                                       14                                  crimination; and
                                                                       15                                  (C) enacting Federal policies to ensure
                                                                       16                        that all immigrant workers and their families
                                                                       17                        currently in the United States have the oppor-
                                                                       18                        tunity to normalize their immigration status,
                                                                       19                        whether by temporary authorization, lawful per-
                                                                       20                        manent status, or full citizenship, including im-
                                                                       21                        mediate eligibility to work and to access health
                                                                       22                        care and other government programs and sup-
                                                                       23                        ports, as well as—




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                                                                       24                                         (i) enacting H.R. 5227 (117th), the
                                                                       25                                  LIFT the BAR Act of 2021; and


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                                                                         1                                        (ii) enacting H.R. 3149 (117th), the
                                                                         2                                 HEAL for Immigrant Families Act of
                                                                         3                                 2021.
                                                                         4                       (5) the right to healthcare and bodily autonomy
                                                                         5              will be implemented by—
                                                                         6                                 (A) ensuring that all individuals living in
                                                                         7                       the United States have equal access to com-
                                                                         8                       prehensive, quality, affordable health care, with-
                                                                         9                       out the threat of financial hardship, by—
                                                                       10                                         (i) decoupling healthcare coverage
                                                                       11                                  from employment; and
                                                                       12                                         (ii) exploring moving toward a single-
                                                                       13                                  payer, government-administered healthcare
                                                                       14                                  system which would cover all residents of
                                                                       15                                  the United States for all medically nec-
                                                                       16                                  essary services, including doctor, hospital,
                                                                       17                                  preventive, long-term care, mental health,
                                                                       18                                  abortion care and other reproductive health
                                                                       19                                  care, gender-affirming care, dental, vision,
                                                                       20                                  prescription drug, and medical supply
                                                                       21                                  costs;
                                                                       22                                  (B) taking steps to protect access to repro-
                                                                       23                        ductive rights and health care for all workers in




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                                                                       24                        the United States, irrespective of race, socio-
                                                                       25                        economic status, employer, State of residency,


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                                                                         1                       immigration status, gender identity, and sexual
                                                                         2                       orientation; and
                                                                         3                                 (C) enacting H.R. 2234 (117th), the
                                                                         4                       EACH Act of 2021; and
                                                                         5                       (6) the right to participation in governance will
                                                                         6              be implemented by—
                                                                         7                                 (A) taking steps to preserve the right of
                                                                         8                       workers to freely organize and bargain collec-
                                                                         9                       tively with employers, including by—
                                                                       10                                         (i) eliminating the racist exclusions
                                                                       11                                  and barriers within the National Labor Re-
                                                                       12                                  lations Act, providing full inclusion and the
                                                                       13                                  right to a union for all workers, including
                                                                       14                                  by—
                                                                       15                                                  (I) reestablishing voluntary rec-
                                                                       16                                         ognition of unions upon majority sup-
                                                                       17                                         port without a secret election; and
                                                                       18                                                  (II) guaranteeing the ability of
                                                                       19                                         workers to talk openly about unioniza-
                                                                       20                                         tion at work and for union organizers
                                                                       21                                         to speak to workers openly;
                                                                       22                                         (ii) repealing the Labor Management
                                                                       23                                  Relations Act, 1947 (known as the ‘‘Taft-




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                                                                       24                                  Hartley Act’’) and the amendments made
                                                                       25                                  by such Act;


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                                                                         1                                        (iii) enacting H.R. 842, the Protecting
                                                                         2                                 the Right to Organize Act of 2021;
                                                                         3                                        (iv) banning State and local ‘‘right-to-
                                                                         4                                 work’’ laws;
                                                                         5                                        (v) establishing strict and significant
                                                                         6                                 penalties when employers break laws to
                                                                         7                                 bust unions; and
                                                                         8                                        (vi) prohibiting ‘‘captive audience’’
                                                                         9                                 meetings; and
                                                                       10                                  (B) protecting the right of all citizens to
                                                                       11                        vote, and making voting as accessible as pos-
                                                                       12                        sible, especially for historically excluded commu-
                                                                       13                        nities, such as Black and Brown people, women,
                                                                       14                        returning citizens, and those in poverty, by—
                                                                       15                                         (i) establishing universal registration
                                                                       16                                  and voting;
                                                                       17                                         (ii) opposing laws and policies which
                                                                       18                                  seek to erect further barriers and make
                                                                       19                                  ballot access more difficult;
                                                                       20                                         (iii) expanding voter registration and
                                                                       21                                  voting access;
                                                                       22                                         (iv) establishing Election Day as a
                                                                       23                                  Federal holiday; and




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                                                                       24                                         (v) strengthening election security.
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