In his speech on Wednesday, the president called for the passage of the PRO Act, a grab bag of policies that labor unions have been pushing Congress to pass for years.
by Eric Boehm
Reason.com
Buried inside more than $2 trillion in proposed spending on everything from highways to child care, President Joe Biden’s “American Jobs Plan” would also force non-union workers to pay union dues even in states that have explicitly said that’s not mandatory.
Biden glossed over that detail in Wednesday’s speech outlining the particulars of his “American Jobs Plan.” He made just a single reference to the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which passed the House earlier this month, calling it a bill that would “help workers organize.”
In reality, the PRO Act strengthens unions by telling workers to pay up. Among other things, the bill would amend parts of the National Labor Relations Act to allow the federal government to stomp out the so-called “right-to-work” laws that forbid unions from forcing non-members to pay a share of union dues. If passed, the PRO Act would roll back the rights of individual workers, who would no longer get to choose whether they want to financially support a union.