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Supporters of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or the PRO Act, claim that passing this legislation is necessary to protect the rights of Americans workers. They contend that independent contractors, including freelancers and gig workers, are suffering a crisis in the workforce and are being exploited by their clients. These contentions couldn’t be […]
As a professional staff member for the House Education and Labor Committee, Akash Chougule worked to stop the Protecting the Right to Organize Act. Now, as a senior advisor to Americans for Prosperity, he’s still working to block the anti-worker PRO Act from becoming law. The bill, which the House passed last week, “would upend more […]
In September 2019, freelancer writer, editor and photographer Karen Anderson opened her newspaper to find out Gov. Gavin Newsom had just signed Assembly Bill 5, an expansive law that requires businesses that use independent contractors to reclassify them as employees unless they can meet a strict three-part test known as the ABC test. AB 5’s […]
Women and minorities have borne the brunt of COVID-19’s economic fallout. According to panelists in a March 8 Clubhouse discussion, they also would shoulder the brunt of the impact from H.R. 842, the Protecting our Right to Organize (PRO) Act. Stand Together Director of Economic Opportunity Erica Jedynak hosted the event, which considered the impact […]
House lawmakers passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or the PRO Act, earlier this week. Supporters claim the bill would protect independent contractors, gig workers, and freelancers from exploitation at the hands of their clients by pushing them out of their flexible work arrangements and into traditional employment under the National Labor Relations […]
On March 8, Americans for Prosperity co-hosted a virtual briefing with the Institute for the American Worker (I4AW) and the State Policy Network that explored how H.R. 842, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act will harm workers, entrepreneurs and job creators. Broadly, as I4AW President Vincent Vernuccio explained, the PRO Act would weaken worker […]
Does government have the right to tell Americans how they should work, with whom they can do business, and what their hours ought to be? Some lawmakers believe so. On Tuesday the House passed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, or the PRO Act, a bill that would place additional government roadblocks between Americans […]
Before Beth Anne Mumford became a regional director at Americans for Prosperity, she was an independent contractor for several years, working on strategic communications with clients in the U.S. and Canada. So she has a personal stake in defeating the PRO Act. “As a working mother, I have personally benefited from independent work, which allowed me […]
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on the “Protecting the Right to Organize” (PRO) Act. It isn’t the first time. Each year since 2018, some member of Congress has introduced the PRO Act, and the House passed it along partisan lines in 2019. Americans for Prosperity full supports the ability […]
