APFA Supports the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act - Strengthen the Middle Class
APFA supports fairness for all workers!
America is in the midst of an unprecedented surge in union organizing and with it, corporations that feel they can break the law and block working people from exercising our rights.
We must strengthen our woefully outdated labor laws to protect working people.
The Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act is landmark worker empowerment, civil rights and social justice legislation, and an essential component to ensuring the economy works for all of us.
We need the PRO Act to fix a broken National Labor Relations Act:
In recent decades, employers have been able to violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) with impunity. An entire union-busting industry now works nonstop to block working people from exercising our rights.
Today, in more than 40% of all union organizing elections, employers are charged with breaking the law. They lie. They threaten and coerce. They routinely fire union supporters. Workers are forced to attend mandatory meetings with one item on the agenda: union-bashing.
For too long, employers have been able to violate the NLRA with impunity, routinely denying working people our basic right to join with co-workers for fairness on the job. They threaten and coerce. They routinely fire union supporters. Workers are forced to attend mandatory meetings with one item on the agenda: union-bashing.
These messages of fear and intimidation come from the very people who control our paychecks, how much time we can spend with our families and whether we will have a job tomorrow. And the penalties for employers that engage in this illegal behavior are inconsequential.
The PRO Act is the answer because it would fix many of these problems. The bill would make it possible for tens of millions of workers to exercise our freedom to join together and bargain with our employer, and to have more of a say in our jobs, our economy and our country.
APFA Supports the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act - Strengthen the Middle Class
APFA supports fairness for all workers!
America is in the midst of an unprecedented surge in union organizing and with it, corporations that feel they can break the law and block working people from exercising our rights.
We must strengthen our woefully outdated labor laws to protect working people.
The Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act is landmark worker empowerment, civil rights and social justice legislation, and an essential component to ensuring the economy works for all of us.
We need the PRO Act to fix a broken National Labor Relations Act:
In recent decades, employers have been able to violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) with impunity. An entire union-busting industry now works nonstop to block working people from exercising our rights.
Today, in more than 40% of all union organizing elections, employers are charged with breaking the law. They lie. They threaten and coerce. They routinely fire union supporters. Workers are forced to attend mandatory meetings with one item on the agenda: union-bashing.
For too long, employers have been able to violate the NLRA with impunity, routinely denying working people our basic right to join with co-workers for fairness on the job. They threaten and coerce. They routinely fire union supporters. Workers are forced to attend mandatory meetings with one item on the agenda: union-bashing.
These messages of fear and intimidation come from the very people who control our paychecks, how much time we can spend with our families and whether we will have a job tomorrow. And the penalties for employers that engage in this illegal behavior are inconsequential.
The PRO Act is the answer because it would fix many of these problems. The bill would make it possible for tens of millions of workers to exercise our freedom to join together and bargain with our employer, and to have more of a say in our jobs, our economy and our country.