Join us on Thursday, May 6th at 6pm for a webinar info session on the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. We'll be going over the some stats and info on how corporate interests have chipped away at our union rights over the last several decades in order to weaken us, and how the PRO Act will take our power back. Click here to register.
I'm writing to let you know about the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act (H.R. 2474/S.420). The PRO Act is a monumental piece of legislation in Congress right now that would roll back nearly a century of attacks on working families and shift power back into our hands. We’re counting on every member to join our campaign and fight for this game-changing legislation.
As you may know, it’s extremely difficult for private sector workers to organize if their employer opposes them doing so. Companies can misclassify workers to deny them union rights, gerrymander election units, dodge accountability for violating worker rights, and intimidate workers relentlessly on worktime—and right now, they can do it all completely legally. Even when corporations break the law, like illegally penalizing or firing workers for supporting a union, the National Labor Relations Board's penalties are completely toothless, take years to secure, and provide no actual deterrent. As a result, studies show that pro-union workers are fired in nearly one-third of organizing campaigns. And workers have basically no recourse.
Given the sorry state of current labor law, it’s no surprise that unionization rates have been cut in half over the last 30 years—even though a majority of workers say that they’d like to be part of a union.
The PRO Act would fix these problems and re-establish the right to organize in this country. As workers' protections under the NLRA have been eroded over the years, corporations have realized that they can exploit us with impunity. The resulting decline in union membership is directly responsible for the explosion of income inequality that has helped a small handful of CEOs at the expense of everyone else.
The PRO Act passed the House of Representatives in March. Now we need to make sure it passes the Senate.
For more information about the PRO Act, including fact sheets, toolkits, and workplace flyers, go to cwad1.org/pro-act
Join us on Thursday, May 6th at 6pm for a webinar info session on the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. We'll be going over the some stats and info on how corporate interests have chipped away at our union rights over the last several decades in order to weaken us, and how the PRO Act will take our power back. Click here to register.
