PRO Act
Representing manufacturing, production, maintenance and sanitation workers in the baking, confectionery, tobacco and grain milling industries.
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President Joe Biden on Tuesday continued his support of pro-union actions by calling for the House to pass the Protect the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act) to make it easier for workers to unionize. Biden strongly encouraged the House of Representatives to "pass the PRO Act," a bill that he said would strengthen unions and "dramatically enhance the power of workers to organize and collectively bargain for better wages, benefits, and working conditions." ...

29 April, 2021

Employers commonly use a variety of tactics, legal and illegal, to make it difficult for workers to form unions. The PRO Act, the most significant overhaul of labor law since the New Deal, would help level the playing field. Thea Lee, president of the Economic Policy Institute, explains how. Check out this EPI fact sheet on Why Workers Need the Protecting the Right to Organize Act. https://youtu.be/8RXYbC-yjkw ...

27 April, 2021

Today is a national day of action for the PRO Act and we asking every BCTGM member to help flood the Senate phone lines with support for the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. Click to call senators Weโ€™re almost there. If we can get this passed, working peopleโ€™s rights will be protected for generations to come. The PRO Act has already passed the U.S. House with bipartisan support. The PRO Act would: Empower workers to exercise the...

08 April, 2021

Working people are facing a crisis beyond anything weโ€™ve weathered since the Great Depression. Overcoming this challenge is going to require unprecedented federal investment in working people and in our communities. That means passing an infrastructure package to tackle the climate injustice, racial injustice and economic injustice facing working families while creating a new generation of good-paying union jobs. President Biden understands we need to go big, and this announcement brings us one step closer to...

31 March, 2021

For four years, the Department of Labor has been devoted to serving a handful of elite interests, instead of working people. Not anymore. The Senate has confirmed Marty Walsh as labor secretary. As a former union member, he understands the power of collective action, and his confirmation strengthens our fight to improve the lives of working people across the country. Weโ€™re going to protect workers from COVID-19. Weโ€™re going to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. Weโ€™re going...

22 March, 2021

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) protects workers who advocate for improvements on the jobย or seek to organize a union, but it only extends those protections to workers classified as โ€œemployeesโ€ย under a very narrow definition of that term. Workers classified as โ€œindependent contractorsโ€ are not protected by the NLRA. Employers often misclassify their employees as independent contractors, thereby excluding theirย workforce from the NLRAโ€™s protections. This allows employers to ensure their workers will not comeย together to form...

18 March, 2021

The Protecting the Right to Organize Act โ€” PRO Act (H.R. 842) passed the House last night with a 225-206 vote, with five Republicans joining Democrats in favor of it. President Biden strongly backs the legislation and released a powerful statement this week stating, "Nearly 60 million Americans would join a union if they get a chance, but too many employers and states prevent them from doing so through anti-union attacks. They know that without...

10 March, 2021

Yesterday, the BCTGM hosted a live political discussion for member leaders and organizers on Facebook. The panel consisted of staff and activists from both the BCTGM and AFL-CIO (left to right above): Michelle Ellis (moderating),ย Digital Media Dir., BCTGMHarry Kaiser,ย Political Dir./Asst. to President Anthony Shelton, BCTGMRichard Womack,ย Asst. to Pres. Richard Trumka, AFL-CIOJohn Price,ย Organizing Dir., BCTGMDavid Driscoll-Knight,ย East Region Field Dir., AFL-CIOMargaret McLaughlin,ย International Rep./Organizer, BCTGMJared Cummings,ย Rank & File Organizer, BCTGM Local 53 Exec. Board Member In the preview below, Harry...

10 March, 2021

A week after releasing the most pro-union statement from a president in decades, President Biden issued a statement of administration policy that strongly supports the passage of the PRO Act. The administration recognizes that the right to organize a union is a fundamental building block of the American Dream. Passing the PRO Act would strengthen and expand working peopleโ€™s ability to form and join unions. In a press release, the administration noted that unions give...

09 March, 2021

"America was not built by Wall Street. It was built by the middle class, and unions built the middle class. Unions put power in the hands of workers. They give workers a stronger voice to increase wages, improve the quality of jobs and protect job security, protect against racial and all other forms of discrimination and sexual harassment, and protect workersโ€™ health, safety, and benefits in the workplace. Unions lift up workers, both union and...

08 March, 2021

The Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act) is also a top priority to the Union Veterans Council.  Veterans and military families have a long history of joining unions, and like the BCTGM, the Union Veterans Council believes that a union will give a veteran a better life. The PRO Act will address key issues that are keeping veteran workers from achieving financial stability. The men and women who served our country deserve stable and...

03 March, 2021

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: โ€œAmerica can only build back better if unions are doing the building.โ€ Today, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler and leaders from construction and manufacturing unions met with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to discuss actions the administration can take to create good-paying union jobs, highlighting the need to pass the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, COVID-19 relief and an infrastructure package. After the meeting,...

17 February, 2021

On February 4, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) along with Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Congressman Robert C. โ€œBobbyโ€ Scott (VA-03), Chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-12) introduced the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, comprehensive labor legislation to protect workersโ€™ right to stand together and bargain for fairer wages, better...

05 February, 2021

President Biden has indicated he will seek to build worker power by strengthening unions. On election day eve, campaigning in western Pennsylvania, he promised to be โ€œthe most pro-union president youโ€™ve ever seenโ€. In his campaign platform, Biden endorsed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (Pro Act) which would make it easier for unions to organize workers. Americaโ€™s labor laws are no longer an effective. The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act will provide...

22 January, 2021