Protect the rights of workers to collectively bargain for better wages and benefits and oppose efforts to weaken organized labor at the federal level.

Bill Foster · Illinois · Democratic

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Occurrences

I’m committed to protecting those rights at the federal level and will oppose efforts to weaken the power workers have when they organize.

Commits to protecting collective bargaining rights and opposing federal efforts to weaken unions.

Issues | Congressman Bill Foster
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Evidence

The official press releases page shows recent items dated June 11, 2026 (Parent PLUS Loan Fairness and Responsibility Act), June 9, 2026 (statement on the Republican reconciliation package), June 4, 2026 (broadband access for students), and June 3, 2026 (Know Your Rights Act).

Inference: within the 30-day lookback window, Foster was active on several issues, but this official page does not surface any labor or collective-bargaining action. That leaves the labor promise unresolved rather than delivered or reversed.

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Press Releases | Congressman Bill Foster
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Assessments

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Foster has materially advanced the promise but has not fully delivered it. On March 9, 2021, the House passed H.R. 842, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, and Foster voted Yea, which is direct evidence that he supported stronger federal collective-bargaining and union protections. His official House site also treats labor as an active issue area. But the promise is broader than a supportive vote, and the available record does not show that a federal labor-rights outcome attributable to Foster was enacted. In federal office-context terms, this is meaningful pro-labor action by the candidate, but not completed delivery of the promised result.

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