| The New Jersey AFL-CIO applauds the reintroduction in the U.S. Senate of the Richard L. Trumka PRO Act of 2023 to Protect Workers’ Right to Organize by Senators Menendez and Booker.
The PRO Act is a landmark labor law that would empower workers, strengthen civil rights, and be a vehicle towards racial and gender equality and fair treatment for workers across all trades and industries throughout our country.
The PRO Act would strengthen our woefully inadequate labor laws allowing working people to more effectively exercise their rights to organize and collectively bargain. Currently, employers routinely violate the National Labor Relations Act, preventing workers from accessing the higher standards of living and increased workplace safety provided by a union contract.
By ensuring that workers can reach a first contract quickly after a union is recognized, ending retaliation against striking workers by hiring scabs, repealing “right to work” laws, and creating pathways for workers in technology and other emerging industries to organize, the PRO Act would solidify the rising tide of union organizing and support from the public we are experiencing into real gains for working people.
On behalf of our members, affiliates, community partners and all working people, we thank Senators Menendez and Booker for their leadership on this critical legislation.
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