President Joe Biden recently released details about the $2.3 trillion infrastructure bill he is calling the American Jobs Plan. It is being touted as a package to create jobs by building our country’s infrastructure in sectors such as manufacturing, construction, and transportation. But really it is a large gift to unions because in the package are job-killing provisions of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act).
An attempt to nationalize the California law that put thousands of independent contractors and gig workers like Uber and Lyft drivers out of a job, the PRO Act is larger in impact than one sector of work in California. This legislation upends American labor law and eliminates the balance of power that currently exists between unions and businesses.
The PRO Act is a union dream list of legal changes that would greatly increase the likelihood of unionization and the subsequent inability for businesses and workers to negotiate reasonable labor contracts. The president’s so-called infrastructure plan is a Trojan horse to get some of the policies in the PRO Act passed while avoiding Senate filibuster of the stand-alone PRO Act.
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