The Protect the Right to Organize (PRO) Act bill now making its way through Congress attempts to overturn decades of federal policy. Despite its name, the PRO Act does much more than protect an employee’s right to organize and engage in collective bargaining. In fact, the PRO Act would expand the economic weapons available to unions at the bargaining table, at the workplace, and beyond. While the union-favoring legislation presents obvious concerns for open-shop contractors, union contractors may not realize the detrimental impact it could have on them. AGC’s CEO Stephen Sandherr explains on this episode exactly HOW and WHY this bill has potential to cause significant disruption in the construction industry, both for firms and the workers they employ, and upset the delicate balance of rights and restrictions established over decades by the NLRB, courts, and Congress.

AGC of America Opposes the misleadingly named “Protecting the Right to Organize” (PRO) Act because it will dangerously wreck the balance between an employee's right to bargain collectively and an employers' right to manage their business.

Learn more: https://www.agc.org/protecting-right-organize-pro-act

Take action: https://advocacy.agc.org/proact

Additional Information:

The PRO Act legislation contains provisions that are of particular concern to union contractors, see AGC’s 10-page white paper titled The PRO Act: What Union Contractors Need to Know - https://www.agc.org/sites/default/files/Files/Communications/PRO_Act_White_Paper.pdf

Companion one-pager: Impact or PRO Act on Union Contractors - https://www.agc.org/sites/default/files/Files/Advocacy/PROACTunionimpact.pdf

PRO Act – Labor Law Reform Legislation Introduced in Congress (Feb. 11, 2021) via AGC News - https://www.agc.org/news/2021/02/11/pro-act-%E2%80%93-labor-law-reform-legislation-introduced-congress

AGC Statement: New “PRO Act” Will Hurt Construction Workers, Undermine Their Privacy And Make It Hard For The Economy To Recover, Official Warns - https://www.agc.org/news/2021/02/04/new-%E2%80%9Cpro-act%E2%80%9D-will-hurt-construction-workers-undermine-their-privacy-and-make-it