Labor
Unions are the backbone of the American economy. We must work together to preserve collective bargaining, workers' rights, and jobs that create pathways to the middle class for all.
As the Trump Administration attempts to dismantle the union-backed federal workforce and eliminate guardrails that protect workers ability to form and maintain a union, Congressman Larson is at the front of the fight pushing back against these attacks.
Standing with Workers
In the spring of 2025, the International Association of Machinists Locals 700 and 1746 voted to go on strike at RTX’s East Hartford and Middletown Pratt & Whitney plants, Rep. Larson stood with them on the picket line.
Fighting Back Against Attacks on Organizing
As the Trump Administration launches an all-out assault on collective bargaining and the union work force, Rep. Larson is standing up for the right to organize. Rep. Larson has a 100% AFL-CIO lifetime score and has recently backed numerous bills to prevent the Trump Administration from firing union and non-union federal workers, dismantling the National Labor Relations Board, firing the Merit Systems Protection Board chair, cuts to the International Labor Affairs Bureau (ILAB) and Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services, and cosponsored a bill to reverse the Trump Executive Order limiting collective bargaining for federal employees.
Growing Union Jobs
Congressman Larson is a cosponsor and proudly voted to pass the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act which would ban “right to work” laws that allow workers to receive union benefits without paying dues or joining a union. The bill would also forbid employer interference on union elections and empower unions to seek arbitration and mediation on contract negotiations.
Through his position on the Ways & Means Committee, Rep. Larson supported the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which made the single largest investment in climate and energy in American historyandtied aggressive financial incentives directly to high labor standards such as prevailing wage, registered apprenticeships and support of project labor agreements. Congressman Larson’s Hydrogen Production Tax Credit included a provision that increased the value of the credit fivefold for projects that met stronger labor standards. The Inflation Reduction Act ensured that America’s clean energy future would be built by union workers.
Congressman Larson supported and voted for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) which is bringing over $4 billion for highways and bridges putting our Ironworkers, LiUNA, NASHTU and other union trades to work and invest in our future workforce with certified apprenticeship programs.
Larson proudly backed the Butch Lewis Act in Congress. Signed into law by President Biden in 2021, Butch Lewis authorizes money to support pension plans at risk of insolvency. Thanks to the Butch Lewis Act, Sheet Metal Local 40 received nearly $10 million to shore up their pension fund previously projected to become insolvent in 2048, protecting the retirement of nearly 1000 Connecticut-based construction workers.