Drives to organize steelworkers and autoworkers took decades but ultimately succeeded.
The For the People Act and the Protecting the Right to Organize Act are essential to ensuring working people are heard in legislative chambers and corporate boardrooms. The fate of these bills hinges on an anti-democratic Senate rule: the filibuster.
The Amazon organizing drive has drawn attention to just how much the deck is stacked against workers and unions. The Pro Act would provide a much-needed update to labor law after decades of rising inequality and an erosion of collective bargaining.
Talk of Joe Biden as a transformational president is getting ahead of itself. Historically, labor law reform has triggered some of the fiercest battles from business — and Joe Biden has shown no evidence he’ll go to the mat for the PRO Act...
The PRO Act is emerging as the left’s answer to a classic political tension.
Some freelancers have come out against the PRO Act, insisting that the pro-labor bill threatens their livelihoods. But they needn’t worry: the bill would transform labor relations for the better, it wouldn’t “kill” freelancing.
The PRO Act will not pass unless we end the filibuster. Those two things are a package deal.
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Though the NLRB keeps a lower profile than many other government agencies, it holds a great deal of power over the country’s workers and labor movement.
This time, unions intend to get something done.
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