AFP Backs Transformative Labor Reform Package from Chairman Cassidy (LA) Senate HELP Committee Members

On November 10, 2025, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Chairman Bill Cassidy (LA) announced a new pro worker labor reform agenda, which also includes legislation introduced by Senators Tim Scott (SC) and Tommy Tuberville (AL). This follows two labor law reform committee hearings on October 8 and 22, 2025 discussing the need for more choice and transparency for workers. 

Protecting Worker Choice, one of the four labor pillars in AFP’s Roadmap to Unleash America’s Full Potential Through Energy, Labor, and Technology Policy, would be greatly advanced by Senate HELP’s new labor reform package. This pillar advocates for policies that: 

• Ensure workers have the freedom to choose arrangements that fit their needs, whether in traditional employment or as independent contractors. Policies should prevent coercive organizing tactics, protect secret-ballot elections, and preserve the right to opt out of union membership or dues, ensuring all workers have a voice in their own careers. 

Within the release, Senate HELP shared the following quote from AFP:  

“Americans for Prosperity thanks Senators Cassidy, Scott, and Tuberville, as well as the Senate HELP Committee, for advancing a package of reforms that will help us lead the global economy in the 21st century by empowering every worker. We do this by modernizing rigid, dated labor laws that fail to give workers the voice and transparency they deserve. These reforms will provide workers with greater choice and opportunities in the workplace to unleash prosperity and take advantage of our evolving and innovative labor market,” Austen Bannan, Employment Fellow, Americans for Prosperity. 

Key legislation in the package as directly summarized by the Senate HELP Committee is as follows:  

• Cassidy’s Worker Reforming Elections for Speedy and Unimpeded Labor Talks (RESULTS) Act: Expands worker choice by ensuring the integrity of union elections, helping workers reach a first contract in a timely manner, and enhancing workers’ opportunity to determine whether a union contract is working for them. 

• Cassidy’s Union Members Right to Know Act: Strengthens worker voice by letting workers determine how their hard-earned dollars are used. Workers should not be forced to fund political causes that violate their beliefs. 

• Tuberville’s Protection on the Picket Line Act: Defends Americans from harassment and abuse at work by clarifying that the National Labor Relations Act does not nullify federal antidiscrimination law. 

• Cassidy’s NLRB Stability Act: Requires the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to decide worker claims based on the federal court precedent, creating stability in NLRB decisions. This ensures workers, businesses and unions can expect consistent outcomes when they file a claim with the NLRB. 

• Cassidy’s Fairness in Filing Act: Limits frivolous NLRB claims that deepen the NLRB’s backlog and delay workers from asserting their rights in the workplace. 

• Scott’s Worker Privacy Act: Protects workers’ personal data in the unionizing process and prevents the use of this data for efforts not related to labor organizing. 

The Worker RESULTS Act also ensures secret ballot elections and that two-thirds of workers participate in union elections in order for results to be valid – helping to ensure workers can vote with their conscience and not have the will of a few dictate workplace contracts for everyone.  

The new Senate HELP package is an important compliment to a broader worker empowerment and flexibility agenda AFP supports, which includes the Employee Rights Act as well as self-employment reforms like access to voluntary benefits that Senator Cassidy and other U.S. House and Senate leaders have introduced in this Congress.