by Justin | Jul 14, 2021 | NLRB, PRO Act
The PRO Act’s monetary penalties should absolutely make it through budget reconciliation. Allowing the NLRB to actually punish wrongdoers for violating federal labor law would be the biggest legal change for unions since the NLRA was passed. Read the article...
by Justin | Apr 7, 2021 | Communications Workers of America (CWA), PRO Act
The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act is historic legislation that will put power in the hands of workers and reverse decades of legislation meant to crush unions. The bill will completely change labor law as we know it and shift power away from CEOs to...
by Justin | Mar 18, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, Opinion, President Joseph Biden, PRO Act, Right-to-Work, Uncategorized
With the modern filibuster’s days possibly numbered, labor law reform may finally pass the Senate.Read the article here.
by Justin | Mar 9, 2021 | Amazon, Organizing, President Joseph Biden, PRO Act
For more than 40 years, America’s unions have endured body blow after body blow, inflicted by Republicans and abetted by the neglect of pro-corporate Democrats. But now, the tide is turning. The House is set to pass, for a second time, the Protecting the Right to...
by Justin | Feb 20, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, NLRB, PRO Act
You’d have to be over 90 years old to remember it, but when American workers first won the right to strike in 1935, they used it to support each other’s struggles. They refused to deliver or handle goods produced by scabs at another company. They boycotted businesses...
by Justin | Feb 11, 2021 | EPI, PRO Act
“Nearly half (48%) of all nonunion workers surveyed say they would vote for a union if given the opportunity—a roughly 50% higher share than when a similar survey was taken 40 years earlier. And the 65% of Americans who approve of labor unions is higher than it...
