Today, Tuesday, March 9, the U.S. House will vote on the H.R. 842, the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, to strengthen workers’ rights and wages. Congress needs to hear from you! The PRO Act would restore fairness to our economy by strengthening the federal laws that protect workers’ right to join a union and bargain for fair wages and better benefits.
Click here to write your members of Congress in support of the PRO Act.
On Monday, the Biden Administration released a statement of administration policy in strong support of the PRO Act, calling on Congress to pass this vital legislation to help workers, stating:
“America was not built by Wall Street. It was built by the middle class, and unions built the middle class. Unions put power in the hands of workers. They give workers a stronger voice to increase wages, improve the quality of jobs and protect job security, protect against racial and all other forms of discrimination and sexual harassment, and protect workers’ health, safety, and benefits in the workplace. Unions lift up workers, both union and non-union.
The policy of the United States Government, stated clearly in the National Labor Relations Act, is to encourage union organizing and collective bargaining.”
On Tuesday, President Biden released a statement urging Congress to “send the PRO Act to my desk so we can seize the opportunity to build a future that reflects working people’s courage and ambition, and offers not only good jobs with a real choice to join a union — but the dignity, equity, shared prosperity and common purpose the hardworking people who built this country and make it run deserve.”
Our woefully outdated labor laws are no longer effective as a means for working people to have our voices heard. As a result, inequality has skyrocketed. The PRO Act is a generational opportunity to bring fairness to our economy by changing the power dynamics in America to give working people a real say in our future.
Thank you to Senator Tammy Baldwin, Representative Gwen Moore, Representative Mark Pocan, and Representative Ron Kind for co-sponsoring the PRO Act in the Senate and House.
Congress must pass the PRO Act to protect the right to organize and collectively bargain; strengthen workers’ rights to join together and negotiate for a better life; and restore fairness to an economy rigged against working people.
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