ABC-SEMI Southeast Michigan Contractors Issue 4, 2021

Southeast Michigan Contractors Issue 4 2021 7 The PRO Act is stacking the deck against workers and small business in favor of big labor unions with a number of proposals that ultimately build up well-funded, nationalized labor unions while gutting workers and businesses of the flexibility they need to create quality, sustainable workplaces that can employ Americans for decades to come. Here are some of the other heavy-handed, federal mandates the PRO Act forces on workers and their employers: » Requires workers’ personal contact information be sent to unions in a searchable, electronic format. » Prevents employers from hiring tem- porary workers during strikes, which means the strike can last indefinitely until the employer concedes, regard- less of the practicality of outcome. » Removes workers’ protection by secret ballot in some situations, subjecting them to union coercion. » Limits the information workers may receive during a union organizing campaign. » Undermine private ballot union representation elections—a funda- mental right since 1935. » Deny individuals the ability to work independently, threatening the emerging “gig” economy and taking away the flexibility that has allowed American businesses of all sizes to grow. » Allow unions to launch disruptive pro- tests and pickets against any employer, even those that have nothing to do with a labor dispute. » Impose liability on businesses for workplaces they don’t control and workers they don’t employ. » Eliminate all state Right-to-Work laws, which protect workers in more than half the country against being fired if they decline to pay union dues. » Impose mandatory union contracts if a union and employer do not reach an agreement and deprive workers of the right to vote on the terms and conditions of their own employment. » Increase needless class action lawsuits by restricting alternate means of dispute resolution in the workplace. » Prevent workers from decertifying a union even if they are unhappy with it. All ABC members need to stand up for the rights of America’s workers and employers by asking their representa- tives in Washington to oppose the PRO Act today. The PRO Act is stacking the deck against workers and small business in favor of big labor unions with a number of proposals that ultimately build up well- funded, nationalized labor unions while gutting workers and businesses of the flexibility they need to create quality, sustainable workplaces that can employ Americans for decades to come.