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 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.
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.
Sign the petition to the Senate: Pass the PRO Act.
In solidarity,
Ro
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