New Jersey Globe
December 12, 2025 by Joey Fox
| The issue of collective bargaining in the federal government came up during the debate over the National Defense Authorization Act, the final version of which passed the House this week. Rep. Donald Norcross (D-Camden), a member of the Armed Services Committee that wrote the bill, had successfully inserted an amendment undoing Trump’s collective bargaining order for Department of Defense workers specifically. But the amendment was then stripped out, reportedly due to opposition in the Senate; the broader bill that passed yesterday goes further than the Norcross amendment, but unlike the NDAA, there’s no guarantee it will pass the Senate. “Less than 24 hours ago, in this very room, we had a chance to immediately restore collective bargaining rights just for the Department of Defense. [Republicans] all voted no,” Norcross said on the House floor during debate on the collective bargaining bill. “And today, they want to vote yes? A day late and a dollar short, is what I’m talking about.”…Rep. Norcross helped to introduce the Empowering App-Based Workers Act this week, a bill that aims to improve working conditions for workers who earn their paychecks through app-based jobs like food delivery or ridesharing. |
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