Labor gains
Businesses with between 500 and 10,000 employees that accept loans to tide them over until the pandemic abates will not be allowed to get rid of any collective bargaining agreement that they already have and will be barred from taking sides on any efforts by their employees to unionize.
The union protections were not in an earlier version of the Senate bill released over the weekend which failed on two separate procedural votes. The mandates are tucked in between a variety of other requirements meant to hold companies that take government money accountable. Those include requirements that the businesses keep on at least 90 percent of their workers, are not currently in bankruptcy, have more than 50 percent of their employees in the U.S., will not outsource jobs for at least two years after their loans are repaid, won't engage in stock buybacks and more.
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