Protecting the Right to Organize Act
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Sep 25, 2026
Christopher JonesGUEST
To rebuild those institutions.
Christopher JonesGUEST
The PRO Act to support unions needs to happen.
Christopher JonesGUEST
So I would be a vote for those things.
Christopher JonesGUEST
And then I think about The rebuilding part, I would be a vote for those things and a voice for how we put actual regulations around artificial intelligence and data centers that allows that technology to grow and benefit a lot of people as opposed to it scaling and benefiting a few and the cost of it go down to a lot of people.
Phil HamillGUEST
This is a big deal.
Phil HamillGUEST
And we're still also trying to push the PRO Act, which is labor protection.
Phil HamillGUEST
So it's just a big thing.
Phil HamillGUEST
But that's still, that's kind of still, the Democrats
Heidi ShierholzGUEST
So there's a couple of foundational bills, like the Public Protecting the Right to Organize Act.
Heidi ShierholzGUEST
That has a bunch of provisions in it that would address many of the things that we talked about earlier, like the penalties for union busting.
Heidi ShierholzGUEST
In the PRO Act is the thing that says you go to arbitration if the employer is dragging their feet on getting to a first contract.
Heidi ShierholzGUEST
That Faster Labor Contracts Act was a provision of the PRO Act, which was pulled out, slapped another name on it, and passed the House with bipartisan support in June.
Heidi ShierholzGUEST
So it would do a host of things to sort of get us back to be wonky about it, sort of pre-Taft-Hartley era when it would level the playing field much more.
Heidi ShierholzGUEST
much better so that it would better restore workers' rights to unions and collective bargaining.
Dean BakerHOST
So anyhow, just, you may not be familiar with it.
Heidi ShierholzGUEST
Yes, fair, fair.
David KromanHOST
Hmm.
John DereskiGUEST
And I believe that that means that our first priority i- are the things that I've already been talking about, and I don't wanna be like a typical politician and not leave my talking points, but, like, I've met- been meeting with the l- labor unions for the last t- two weeks, and the Democrats have failed to protect the unions by not passing, uh, the, the PRO Act or the, or, you know, the stuff to help unions organize better.
John DereskiGUEST
And, and that's what I'm wanna be focused on.
John DereskiGUEST
Now, if you get into the culture war issues, there are gonna be some things that are gonna be a challenge for us, but, again, I'm looking for common s- all these issues, the extremists on both sides are usually always wrong, and those usually aren't the votes that are happening in Congress.
Frank MatthewsGUEST
It's about who is with us on our issues, our kitchen table issues.
Frank MatthewsGUEST
There are many members of both parties that are endorsed around the country because, A, you know, and, you know, not as many Republicans will come out and take a stance to where they support the PRO Act, which is organizing in the workplace.
Frank MatthewsGUEST
They tend to follow what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
speaker_1NARRATOR
tells them to do.
Abdul El-SayedSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We need to end that.
Abdul El-SayedSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then it's working to pass the PRO Act to make sure that we can organize unions every sector of American life.
Abdul El-SayedSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And finally, getting Medicare for all done so we free people from
Roop RajMODERATOR
the risk.
Mitchell BermanGUEST
I plan on getting us out of this war in Iran.
Mitchell BermanGUEST
I plan on working hard to make sure that, uh, you know, working-class people, uh, and unions have a seat at the table, uh, passing the PRO Act and making sure that folks that made, you know, built the table get a seat at it.
Mitchell BermanGUEST
Uh, and-
Tim DickinsonHOST
Mm-hmm
Steve GrumbineHOST
And when I found that out and the fact that they don't even need they have zero requirement to run a primary, much less honor the results of a primary and hence superdelegates and on and on and on.
Steve GrumbineHOST
And then you can get into Joe Biden with the parliamentarian stopping the PRO Act.
Steve GrumbineHOST
You don't need to go too much further, do you? I mean, for me, I don't know.
Steve GrumbineHOST
And so as I think about that, it really started changing me, literally, fundamentally changing me as a person.
Mark MixGUEST
every year in political elections.
Stefania CoxHOST
Now, the UAW itself supports the Protecting the Right to Organize or PRO Act, which is a federal legislative proposal that would override state right-to-work laws.
Stefania CoxHOST
You've said that that could actually expand union officials' control over workers nationwide.
Stefania CoxHOST
Tell us more about that.
Mark MixGUEST
Yeah, absolutely.
Mark MixGUEST
The PRO Act, the Protecting the Right to Organize Bill, misnamed, I might add, gives additional and extremely new powers to organized labor officials.
Mark MixGUEST
It does nothing to help workers, but it gives union officials dramatic powers over workers.
Mark MixGUEST
So, for example, the first thing they want to do is repeal all 26 right to work laws in the country.
Mark MixGUEST
In states where we have right-to-work laws, in 26 states, a majority of states that have right-to-work laws where it says, "You can join a union, you can associate with the union, you can give your entire paycheck to a union, but you can't be fired if you don't give money to the union." And the best way to hold union officials like Shawn Fain accountable is give workers the chance to withhold their money when they're doing political things they disagree with and when they're spending general treasury money on voter registrations, phone banks, get out the vote drives, that type of election activity that is, quote, "not covered by the Election Campaign Act," but is something unions do in a big way every year in political elections.
Stephanie CoxHOST
Now, the UAW itself supports the protecting the right to organize, or PRO Act, which is a-
Mark MixGUEST
Yeah
Stephanie CoxHOST
... federal legislative proposal that would override state r- right-to-work laws.
Stephanie CoxHOST
Tell us more about that.
Mark MixGUEST
Yeah, absolutely.
Mark MixGUEST
The PRO Act, the Protecting the Right to Organize bill, misnamed I might add, gives additional and extremely new powers to organized labor officials.
Mark MixGUEST
It does nothing to help workers, but it gives union officials dramatic powers over workers.
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