Pro-Union PRO Act Accelerates Congressional Fight for Workers' Rights
IBEW Media Center.
...The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act was unveiled May 2 by a coalition of 40 Democrats in the U.S. Senate and 100 in the House, including Folsom, N.J., Local 351 member and U.S. Rep. Donald Norcross.
...The PRO Act stops employers from interfering in organizing drives and delaying votes, prohibits management from forcing workers to attend anti-union captive-audience meetings, and requires companies to bargain in good faith, among its many proposals to protect and restore workers' rights.
..."For 37 years I was an electrician and a union representative," Norcross said during a hearing on the bill Wednesday in the House Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) subcommittee. "I'll start out by saying not every employer is a bad employer. But when we have the bad ones, they can abuse this system to the nth degree, literally crushing people like you."