The U.S. House of Representatives on March 9 narrowly approved legislation pushed by Democrats that would expand protections for labor union organizing and collective bargaining and amend decades-old labor law. The bill, called the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, was approved in a 225-206 vote, with five Republicans joining Democrats in favor of the sweeping labor rights bill. It now faces an all-but-certain Republican blockade in a narrowly divided Senate and is unlikely to become law. A different version of the legislation was approved by the Democratic-controlled House last year, but wasn’t taken up by the Senate. In a statement Tuesday, President Joe Biden endorsed the bill, saying that it “would dramatically enhance the power of workers to organize and collectively bargain for better wages, benefits, and working conditions.” “As America works to recover from the devastating challenges of deadly pandemic, an economic crisis, and reckoning on race that …