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Today, Democrats reintroduced one of the most economically damaging, anti-small business bills ever considered by Congress: the dishonestly-named "Protecting the Right to Organize" (PRO) Act - a radical attempt to boost labor unions at the expense of worker and employer rights.
The #PROAct has nothing do with the "right to organize." That hasn't been touched in 74 years. This bill is intended to make it easier to force workers to pay union dues as a political quid pro quo for the union bosses who have been embraced by Democrats but rejected by workers.
Union membership has fallen from more than 20% in 1983 to less than 11% today. No one forced workers to leave unions - they voluntarily chose to do so. But the #PROAct would force them back in against their will, taking hundreds of dollars out of their hard-earned paychecks.
Proponents of the #PROAct say the bill is necessary because workers are worse off today than when the union rate was higher. This is a lie. The typical American household earns more than $1000 more today than in 1975, when the union rate was more than double what it is today.
Unions' decline has also NOT coincided with a decline in economic mobility. As @Mark_J_Perry has shown, the percentage of US households earning more than $100k (inflation-adjusted) more than tripled, from 9% to 30%, from 1967 to 2018 while the union rate fell from 27.8 to 10.5%.
Workers are obviously aware of this, which is why they've abandoned unions in droves. Instead of trying to win them back by delivering results, eliminating corruption, and improving accountability and transparently, union leaders are demanding more coercive power in the #PROAct.
Among other radical changes, this bill would: force workers to pay a union against their will; force employers to give workers' private, personal contact info to union organizers; eliminate freelancing and franchises as we know it; and effectively silence employers in labor law.
In 2019, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka testified in front of Congress that his unions would harass workers "at home" and "at the grocery store" to support the union. They fully intend to wield the coercive power the #PROAct would give them against workers and employers alike.
In FY18, unions tried to organize less than 0.1% of eligible employees. AFL-CIO spent 3 times more on politics as organizing. Unions have sent more than $1 BILLION in dues to left-wing groups since 2010. Any wonder why they demand #PROAct to tilt the playing field for themselves?
Read @AFPhq's letter of opposition to the #PROAct and learn more about this unprecedented assault on the American economy and worker and employer rights alike here: https://americansforprosperity.org/afp-reject-the-pro-act/
