CORTEZ MASTO, BOOKER, CULINARY UNION CALL ON SENATE TO PASS BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION TO SPEED UP LABOR CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto issued the following press release:

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Washington, D.C. -Today, U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) joined leaders and members of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 to call on the Senate to pass the Faster Labor Contracts Act, bipartisan legislation that would guarantee workers who vote to form a union a first contract without years of delay.

Currently, workers wait an average of 465 days for a first contract, and many never get one at all. The Faster Labor Contracts Act would require employers to begin bargaining within 10 days of a union's written request to negotiate, allow either party to...