Teamsters president turns to bipartisan union legislation as PRO Act falls to wayside

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EXCLUSIVE — Teamsters President Sean O’Brien is pushing hard for new bipartisan union legislation and acknowledged that the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, the sweeping overhaul sought by organized labor for years, is largely in the rearview mirror.

O’Brien laid out his hopes for the more modest Faster Labor Contracts Act, a bipartisan bill that would speed up the process of reaching labor agreements, in an interview with the Washington Examiner in his office overlooking the Capitol in Washington.

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