7 Anti-Union Shenanigans the PRO Act Would Fix

Employers commonly use a variety of tactics, legal and illegal, to make it difficult for workers to form unions. The PRO Act, the most significant overhaul of labor law since the New Deal, would help level the playing field. Thea Lee, president of the Economic Policy Institute, explains how.

7 Anti-Union Shenanigans the PRO Act Would Fix
1. Retaliation
2. Delaying elections
3. Contract obstruction
4. Forcing anti-union indoctrination
5. “Right to work”
6. Undermining strikes
7. Misclassification

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Why workers need the Protecting the Right to Organize Act

[TwinFalls]

WHICH current Candidates support it ? And which Pres. Candidates vow to sign it if sent to their desk ?

[Golgafrinchamdent]

To HELL with unions and everyone who would impose them on me! Defeat the PRO Act!!!

[stephanywilkes]

The video says the PRO Act is only for union organizing. Then it says it will prevent misclassification by employers (which happens through the ABC Test in the PRO Act), so then, it is not only about union organizing. The ABC Test is not the only mechanism by which misclassification can be investigated and corrected. The IRS standards are clear and robust, and can protect workers AND independent contractors quite easily.

[trevorspeegle]

I'm a union guy but you cant force to people to monetarily support somthing they want no part of and also states right first

[crescentprincekronos]

She says "employers" like she means all employers. Pure hit piece propaganda. It's too blanket of a statement. Point out the specific companies that are breaking already established laws and then we can talk.

[murphymoose]

Absolutely necessary, and so well thought through.

[my]

This video is lies. Anytime a bill is passed, you can assume your getting fewer Rights

[samholmes]

So what about people who don't want to be in a union what other than rtw prevents unions from robbing me

[sheepdogHCO]

Right to work laws protect people like me who want nothing to do with unions. I can work anywhere and can't be shut out by unions.

[May]

If you are a DSA member, please sign up to phonebank and/or textbank any time this month to pass this vital piece of legislation.

[hopesdaughter]

H.R. 2474 is going in the current drafting of my dissertation's proposal chapters on workplace democracy!!! 🎉📝🌄

[dawndid]

If we don't care for our workers properly, we will not prosper, we will all perish. Workers are the bread and butter of this glorious nation. Ants for aunts in the Bible God taught us this and God is still in my heart when I think about the good people fighting for US 🇺🇸 all
We all need a contract with one God for the greater good of all our contractual needs. Our workers are our life force in the one union we've ever needed.... the one with God so that God delivers health wealth and prosperity to all families working hard every day to put food and shelter and medicine on all our tables at the bounty

[zachjones]

I’m an independent contractor. I will never join a Union.

[katieandnick]

What if I am an IC who makes a lot of money, and I don’t want to be reclassified as an employee because it would have a very negative impact on my income, and not provide me any benefits at all? This bill would also decimate online sex work. I thought democrats were supposed to care about sex workers.