IFPTE Calls on Congress to Pass the PRO Act, Urgently Needed Labor Law Reform

Following this week’s introduction of the bipartisan Protecting the Right to Organize Act 0f 2021 (PRO Act) in the House of Representatives, IFPTE urged Congress to pass this long-overdue legislation in order to restore the original intent of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (NLRA) andto level the playing field between workers who want to form unions and employers who exploit weaknesses in the current law to frustrate union organizing drives and deny workers’ legal union rights.

This legislation, a top priority for labor unions, counters the all-too-common anti-union intimidation tactics that workers who are organizing a union are subjected to. IFPTE’s letter to the Hill relates how the current NPEU organizing drive at the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) typifies some of the employer tactics that the PRO Act would address.

The House bill is sponsored by House Education & Labor Chairman Bobby Scott and the Senate bill, expected to be introduced next week, is sponsored by Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Chairwoman Patty Murray. IFPTE thanks the bipartisan cosponsors and looks forward advocating for the PRO Act’s passage in the 117th Congress.

Read IFPTE’s letter to the House here [PDF].

For a section-by-section summary for the PRO Act, read this document [PDF] prepared by Chairman Scott’s office.