Vanita Gupta, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights | blogs.law.nyu.edu
WASHINGTON Prominent civil rights groups are bringing wide-ranging policy agendas to Democratic President-Elect Joe Biden, with two of them also agitating for more Black appointees to top Cabinet posts. That, at least, was met with a Cabinet nomination for Rep. Marcia Fudge on Dec. 9.
Among the top, boldfaced items on one list, from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights: Passing the Protect The Right To Organize (Pro) Act, the most-comprehensive pro-worker labor law reform since the original National Labor Relations Act of 1935. The New Poor People’s Campaign unveiled the other comprehensive list.