The House of Representatives has voted to allow about 10,000 of its employees the right to form a union and bargain collectively without the threat of retaliation. Democratic Congressmember Andy Levin of Michigan, who introduced the resolution in February, said in a statement, “It’s just outrageous that our own staffers had to wait 26 years after collective bargaining rights were afforded to everybody else on Capitol Hill. This is the temple of our democracy, and if workers don’t have their rights here, it’s kind of hollow to say that we’re standing up for the rights of people everywhere.”

In more labor news, workers at a Target in Christiansburg, Virginia, have filed for a union election with the NLRB. Workers at about a half-dozen other Target stores across the country are also looking to unionize.