The Progressive Case for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act 

Updated March 8, 2021

Whether we are Black, Brown or White, young or old, in big cities or small towns, we work hard for our families and our future. All working people deserve safe jobs, family-sustaining wages, and time to care for our loved ones. To address the massive income inequality that keeps many of us living paycheck-to-paycheck, working people need stronger protections from union-busting to make it easier to have a collective voice on the job and the freedom to come together to bargain for our fair share.

From closing the racial wealth gap and advancing pay equity to protecting LGBTQ+ workers to bolstering healthcare, strengthening the right to organize is a critical part of building the progressive movement. Now more than ever, it’s time for the progressive movement to unite behind workers. 

The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act would provide long overdue strengthened protections for employees organizing to form a union and for working people who are already members of a union. This bill would not only benefit unions. It would give basic labor protections to millions of workers who are not currently in a union.

Strong unions help rectify long standing racial, gender, and economic inequality. Enacting the PRO Act will ensure that more workers have the right to organize and give them a greater voice in the workplace.