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Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA) introduced the 2025 Employee Rights Act, aiming to curb union power and reform the National Labor Relations Board. The bill would let workers opt out of union representation and political spending, limit what information unions can access, and ban DEI clauses in labor contracts. Allen says the legislation empowers workers and modernizes labor law for a "21st-century economy," while critics see it as part of a broader GOP effort to weaken unions under the current Republican-controlled government.