Slipping under the radar is the Protecting the Right to Organizing (PRO) Act, a monstrosity of a bill that’ll upend our economy and restrict choice.
As I’ve written before here and here at Townhall.com, the bill will incur serious implications for the burgeoning gig economy and flexible work in America.
59 million Americans participate or engage in some form of flexible work — independent contracting, moonlighting, or gigs. That’s 36 percent of the workforce. And that number is expected to grow. If the PRO Act were to be implemented as a standalone bill in Congress, through the American Jobs Plan, or via secretarial order in the Labor Department, it would repeal right-to-work laws, deliberately misclassify independent contractors as employees, violate worker privacy, and give Democrats and Big Labor unchecked lobbying power going forward.
Talk about a power grab.
Unfortunately for Big Labor activists and the Biden administration, support for the bill appears to be greatly exaggerated. That’s good news.