Grover Norquist writes in support of the GOP’s answer to the PRO Act, the Employee Rights Act:
In 1954, fully 34.8 percent of American workers were paying union dues. But workers noticed that their interests came second, or third, to the goals of union bosses and Democratic precinct workers. Workers avoided unions. Left them. And by 2021, only 10.3 percent of total workers belonged to a union — 33.9 percent of government workers and only 6.1 percent of workers in the rest of the economy.
Union bosses became angry at workers who fled their tender care, and they began working with Democratic politicians to drag workers back under their control. Their solution: a law with the Orwellian title of the “Protecting the Right to Organize” (PRO) Act, a grab bag of hard-left policies that would expand Big Labor’s power at the expense of worker freedom.
Senator Tim Scott (R., S.C.) and Representative Rick Allen (R., Ga.) are shaping the conservative labor-reform agenda by introducing the “Employee Rights Act,” a version of which was first introduced in the House in 2011. The bill already has over 20 Republican Senate co-sponsors. . . .
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