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Say NO to the PRO Act!

3/5/2021

 
​Your immediate action is needed to say NO to the PRO Act!  The proposed Protect the Right to Organize Act includes the most sweeping changes to labor laws since the Great Depression, and it is decidedly anti-union contractor, anti-open shop, and anti-construction.  The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the PRO Act next week.
 
It’s easy to contact members of Congress … >>CLICK HERE TO TAKE ACTION!
 
Some highlights:
 
  • Repeals Tennessee’s Right-to-Work law, which protects employees by preventing them from being fired for not providing monetary support to a union with which they do not wish to affiliate.
  • Eliminates all unlawful picketing, allowing unions to picket other employers to encourage them to cease doing business with the employer engaged in a dispute with the union. This puts union construction firms at a competitive disadvantage, as owners seek firms less likely to be impacted by unrelated labor disputes.
  • Empowers unions to strike for any reason and would remove prohibitions on partial strikes, slowdown strikes, and intermittent strikes.
  • Threatens secret ballot voting in union organizing by imposing "backdoor" card check, a voting process whereby employees sign their name on a union authorization card and submit it directly to union organizers. There are no secret ballots or private votes.
  • Imposes what is known as "quickie" or "ambush" election rules that limit employers' ability to inform their employees before a unionization vote about the impacts of forming a union on the business.
  • Expands joint employer liability, allowing contractors to be punished for another firms' unfair labor practices.
  • Adds civil penalties for employers and creates personal liability for directors and officers of up to $100,000 for unfair labor practices.
  • Allows private right of action for employees to sue employers in federal court even after their allegations have been dismissed by the Labor Relations Board.
  • Forces employers to turn over employees' personal, identifiable information so they can be solicited by union organizers
  • Threatens workers' absolute right to a free, fair, and secret union ballot. There is something fundamentally un-American about potentially subjecting workers to intimidation and coercion when it comes to deciding whether and how to organize and seek representation at the workplace.
For more information:
  • Click here for AGC of America’s White Paper
  • Click here for one-page summary
  • Click here for summary union impact summary
Please don’t hesitate to call with questions.


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