[1]Ro Khanna

Friend,

We’re witnessing a new era for workers’ rights in the United States. Union
approval is at its highest level since the 1960s, and 2022 saw the first
successful union movements at Starbucks, Amazon, and Apple. California’s
fast food workers now have a seat at the negotiating table with the
passage of the FAST Recovery Act earlier this month. Workers deemed
essential during the pandemic are demanding what they’re owed in higher
wages and safer working conditions, spurring a labor movement worthy of
the history books.

Despite these efforts and victories, working people continue to face
significant barriers in their attempts to organize. According to an
[ [link removed] ]analysis by AFL-CIO, workplace conditions have barely changed in the
past two decades, while the level of opposition workers face has
intensified. Most corporations still hire union-busting firms to deploy
aggressive anti-union campaigns to hinder collective bargaining.

Through new technology, companies can now use so-called "softer" tactics
to prevent organizing. Worker surveillance has doubled in the past two
decades, including monitoring through phones, computer key cards, social
media, and more. Rates of retaliation, coercion, threats, and intimidation
remain extremely high. A majority of employers used captive audiences or
one-on-one meetings to harass workers. Nearly 50% of employers
interrogated workers about union activity as well as threatened workers
with plant closings, outsourcing, or contracting out of their work.

These intimidation tactics have a significant negative effect on working
people's desire to organize. We need stronger labor laws that protect
workers from corporate abuse and overreach.

[ [link removed] ]Sign if you agree: We must do more to defend and support American
workers.

"Strengthening our labor laws has never been more urgent," said AFL-CIO
President Liz Shuler. "The working people who keep our economy going each
day deserve the freedom to join or form a union without intimidation and
fear. All workers deserve dignity and respect on the job."

The historic, pro-union Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act,
potentially the largest change to U.S. labor laws since the 1940s, would
restore fairness to the economy by strengthening federal laws that protect
the right for workers to organize and collectively bargain for higher
wages and better benefits. It would also hold corporations accountable for
violating workers’ rights to unionize. I was proud to co-sponsor the PRO
Act in the House, but it remains stalled in the Senate with strong
Republican opposition.

Strong unions mean a strong middle class. They mean fair wages, benefits,
and better working conditions for everyone. We must break corporate
America's tight hold on Congress by passing pro-union legislation like the
PRO Act.

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition to the Senate: Pass the PRO Act.

In solidarity,
Ro


 


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