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  Share Source: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which would essentially eliminate freelancers and the gig economy. The bill passed 225 to 206. Five Republicans joined Democrats in voting for the act. Breaking: The House just passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, the most significant expansion of labor rights since the New Deal. The vote was 225 to 206. Five Republicans joined Democrats...

The PRO Act would strengthen union rights to strike for better pay and conditions and give new protections to union elections, among other reforms.

Of course, supporting Democrats usually doesn’t end well, and the Chamber is finding that out the hard way. The ProAct, a nationalized version of the absolute garbage legislation that is California’s AB5, is currently making its way through Congress. That has the Chamber suddenly feeling buyer’s remorse on politicians they helped to elect. We are disappointed to see the House pass the #PROAct. This bill would threaten worker privacy, force employees to pay union dues or lose their jobs, a...

During the 2020 campaign, Biden promised to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen.” Action is urgently necessary. In 1983, 20 percent of workers in the United States were union members; in 2020, that’s down to about 10.8 percent. Among employees in the private sector, the decline was even more precipitous: from 17 to 7 percent. Studies by the Economic Policy Institute and Brookings attribute the drop in union membership, along with globalization and automation, as a signific...

The House of Representatives passed the Protect the Right to Organize Act, which would amend the NLRA and constitute the most significant overhaul of federal labor law in decades, strengthening workers’ rights, including their ability to unionize.

“Unions are the backbone of the Northwest Indiana economy, and we must do all we can to strengthen the ability of all workers to form unions," said U.S. Rep. Frank

(AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Imagine a man you hired to paint your home spills paint all over the floor, claims he did so because he thinks your floor looks better that way, and then angrily demanded you stop arguing with him about it and keep contracting him out because it’s the right thing to do. That’s pretty much what Ohio Democrat Tim Ryan did on the House floor as he put on a show for the internet clippers in an attempt to make it seem like the GOP was more obsessed with a few racist books ...

Bill that could make independent advisers employees faces Senate stall The measure has drawn strong opposition from financial industry trade associations. In a March 4 letter to House leaders, 14 groups warned that the bill would cause significant disruption to the independent financial services and property casualty insurance industries and the customers we serve. March 10, 2021 2 MINS Legislation that could force independent broker-dealers, financial advisers and insuran...

© Getty Images This week, Congress will consider one of the most sweeping changes to U.S. labor law in a generation when the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act heads to the House floor. Among its many provisions, the PRO Act would reclassify independent contractors as employees. That innocuous-sounding change would upend our modern economy, reaching far beyond Uber and Grubhub. It would shake the foundation of one of the key drivers of the economic recovery: America’s nearly 800,000 ...

The bill would make drastic changes to well-established law, diminish employees rights to privacy, and force business across nearly every industry to lay off employees or close their doors permanently.