Labor Caucus Celebrates Senate Mark Up of PRO Act

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Labor Caucus Co-Chairs Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-MI), Steven Horsford (D-NV), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), and Mark Pocan (D-WI), released the following statement in response to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) executive session on S. 567, the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act:

“We applaud the Senate HELP Committee for taking up and advancing the PRO Act today, the first time the Senate has marked up legislation to reform the National Labor Relations Act in more than 25 years. Today’s advancement of the PRO Act is an important step forward for workers and their rights to collectively bargain and organize.

“The PRO Act reverses decades of anti-worker policies by empowering workers, securing free and fair union elections, and holding employers accountable for violating workers’ rights. Unions are critical to a thriving middle class, and the PRO Act ensures all workers can exercise their right to organize.

“Following the Senate HELP Committee’s historic step forward today, we call on Rep. Virginia Foxx, Chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, to take up the PRO Act and strengthen the right to organize.”