Facing South: The PRO Act would undo decades of Southern anti-union laws rooted in racism
Berry Craig
Thanks to Liles Taylor for sending us this.
By OLIVIA PASCHAL
I The U.S. House of Representative passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act this week, with 42 House Democrats from Southern states as cosponsors.
The bill is one of the most ambitious attempts to strengthen the rights of workers and unions in decades. Its centerpiece is a provision that would override so-called "right-to-work" laws by allowing unions to collect dues from represented workers in states with such laws even if those workers have not joined the union.