For decades, working people have faced immense obstacles when they seek justice on the job. As the UE Policy “Labor Law Reform” notes, “Today, employers brazenly violate the law and victimize working people who dare to challenge their complete control. Almost 10 percent of workers who engage in organizing are fired by their employers, amounting to tens of thousands every year. In 92 percent of union organizing campaigns, workers are subjected to the psychological warfare of captive audience meetings, such as we saw in UE’s recent campaign at Refresco. Of those workplaces which successfully manage to organize in spite of employer-run terror campaigns, only half will obtain a first union contract.”
The PRO Act (H.R. 842 / S. 420), which would address many of these abuses, passed the House in March of 2021, but the threat of Republican filibuster, as well as the lack of support from a handful of Democrats, means that it has not been brought to a vote in the Senate.