Call to Action

On March 5, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Bobby Scott reintroduced the ABC-opposed PRO Act in the 119th Congress.

This radical legislation includes dozens of provisions that would violate workers’ free choice and privacy rights, force unions on employees who have voted against such representation, cost millions of American jobs, threaten vital supply chains and greatly hinder our economy. The bill boosts union membership at the expense of American workers and small businesses.

Of the many radical provisions in the PRO Act, the bill includes provisions that:

• Strip away workers’ privacy rights and key protections guaranteeing workers’ free choice through secret ballots in union representation elections

• Curb opportunities for people to work independently through independent contractor roles

• Revoke independently enacted state right-to-work protections and require workers to pay union dues as a condition of employment

• Change the legal standard for joint-employer liability, reducing opportunities for our country’s small and local businesses through subcontracts, licensing and franchising

• Violate employers’ right to attorney-client confidentiality on complex labor law issues, making it harder for businesses, particularly small businesses, to secure legal advice

• Impose government control over private contracts

• Infringe on the due process rights of employers

• Remove secondary boycott protections. Expose the economy to a flood of “blackmail” strikes used by unions to attack businesses simply to destroy the business and for anti-competitive purposes, even though these tactics were overwhelmingly banned by bipartisan majorities in Congress in the 1940s and 1950s. These attacks are different than those unions can lawfully bring against companies it has targeted for organizing or as part of a dispute over labor practices.

The ABC-led Coalition for a Democratic Workplace sent a letter to the Hill urging members Congress to oppose the bill.

We now ask you to contact your members of Congress and urge them to oppose the PRO Act!


Urge Congress to Oppose the Radical PRO Act