On Thursday, February 6, 2020 the U.S. House of Representatives
passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, also known as the
"PRO Act". The legislation (which can be viewed here), passed mostly along party lines, would
provide sweeping changes to the NLRA that would enhance greatly the
ability of unions to organize employees and permit the NLRB to
impose penalties on employers who retaliate against those seeking
to unionize. The PRO Act, if enacted, would be the most significant
series of amendments to the 85 year-old National Labor Relations
Act and is essentially a pro-labor "wish list" that
unions have long-sought since the Taft-Hartley amendments passed in
1947.
However, the PRO Act is likely "dead on arrival" in
the Republican-majority U.S. Senate. Indeed, the chairman of the
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions already has
stated that the Committee will not take up the bill this session.
This said, the PRO Act clearly outlines the Democratic
