When a company illegally fires a worker for trying to start a union, the most it usually pays is back wages, minus whatever that worker earned at another job in the meantime. For a large corporation, that is pocket change. Breaking the law is cheaper than letting workers organize.
That is why I am asking you to co-sponsor the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, H.R. 20 in the House and S. 852 in the Senate.
The PRO Act finally puts real teeth in the law. It lets the labor board fine companies up to $50,000 for each violation, and it lets fired workers sue in court instead of waiting years for a backlogged agency. It bans the mandatory anti-union meetings that companies like Amazon use to pressure workers on the clock. And it stops corporations from misclassifying employees as contractors to keep them from organizing at all.
Roughly 50 million workers say they would join a union tomorrow if they could. Union members earn about 15% more than workers without one. The problem is not that Americans don't want unions. It is that our labor laws let employers spend billions to block them and pay almost nothing when they break the rules.
Please co-sponsor the PRO Act and tell your leadership to bring it to the floor. Working people in our state are counting on it.
