6 Ways a Union-Backed Bill Will Upend the Job Market
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Despite its congenial acronym, a bill the House of Representatives is about to pass would upend the U.S. labor market as we know it.
The Protecting the Right to Organize Act—dubbed the PRO Act—comes at a time when the labor market is stronger than it has been in decades.
The PRO Act threatens all of those gains at the expense of benefiting union bosses who send hundreds of millions of dollars to liberal causes and politicians each year.
Under the PRO Act, workers would lose—not gain—protections and basic democratic rights, along with a chunk of their paychecks. Among its many other troubling provisions, the PRO Act would also put independent workers’ livelihoods on the line, intervene in employers’ business decisions, and overturn 27 sovereignly enacted state right-to-work laws and a Supreme Court decision.
Here are just a few of the PRO Act’s harmful provisions:
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