John,

As workers organize across the country for fair pay, benefits and scheduling, greedy corporations are fighting back, putting the profits of their wealthy investors and CEOs ahead of working people.

Starbucks is raking in billions of dollars in profit while engaging in a company-wide pattern of union-busting. At the same time, their CEO Howard Schultz has seen his personal fortune grow by nearly $1 billion during the pandemic.[1]

Amazon has, just in the last year, illegally interfered in a union election and illegally arrested union organizers outside of an Amazon warehouse in New York.[2][3]

Amazon is cheating its workers and us taxpayers―over the last four years the behemoth made about $79 billion in profits and paid just $4 billion in taxes, for a measly 5% income tax rate.[4] The average American pays a 13% tax rate.[5]

Stand with workers and fight back against blatant union busting! Sign now to demand the Senate pass the PRO Act.

The PRO Act, would:

• Penalize employers that interfere with their employees’ organizing efforts;

• Make explicitly clear that employers cannot interfere with employee unionization voting procedures;

• Enhance support for worker strikes and boycotts; and

• Repeal “right-to-work” laws, which were created during the Jim Crow era to divide Black and white workers.

Approval for labor unions is at its highest point since 1965.[6] But, at the same time, an analysis by the AFL-CIO shows that employers’ opposition to unions is intensifying.[7] Just as corporations and politicians rig our tax system and our economy, they’re also systematically chipping away at workers’ rights and thwarting our ability to form and join unions.

We’re fighting back against greedy union-busting corporations! Sign now to demand the Senate support workers’ rights and higher wages by passing the PRO Act now.

Thank you for having the backs of workers across the country.

Frank Clemente
Executive Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund

[1] “Billion-Dollar Union Busters: How Starbucks & its rich CEO are stifling worker organizing,” Americans for Tax Fairness, Aug. 31, 2022
[2] “Amazon faces a second union vote at an Alabama warehouse next month after the NLRB found the company interfered with the first election,” Business Insider, Jan. 11, 2022
[3] “Amazon accused of violating U.S. labor law after union supporters' arrests,” Reuters, Feb. 24, 2022
[4] “Amazon Avoids More Than $5 Billion in Corporate Income Taxes, Reports 6 Percent Tax Rate on $35 Billion of US Income,” Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Feb. 7, 2022
[5] “Summary of the Latest Federal Income Tax Data, 2022 Update,” Tax Foundation, Jan. 20, 2022
[6] “U.S. Approval of Labor Unions at Highest Point Since 1965,” Gallup, Aug. 30, 2022
[7] “Workers Need Stronger Labor Laws Now More Than Ever,” AFL-CIO, Sept. 15, 2022