The PRO Act will significantly restrict the rights of small business owners to contract freely, compromises the privacy of millions of Americans, and exposes small businesses to costly boycotts and protests.

The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of is a dangerous piece of legislation that would dramatically upend long-standing employment law in favor of labor unions at the expense of small businesses and their employees. Problematic provisions include:

• The PRO Act would abolish state “Right to Work” laws that protect non-union workers from contributing to union fees and removes the right of workers to hold a secret ballot regarding if they should or should not join a union. The bill also includes a stricter version of California’s “ABC” independent contractor laws that forced the state of California to immediately carve out dozens of exceptions. The PRO Act has no such exceptions.
• There would be other harmful effects to the PRO Act, such as making small businesses responsible for the hiring decisions of their subcontractors, requiring employers to provide the personal contact information for all their employees to union organizers without the consent of the employee, and legalizing “secondary boycotts,” where a union can pressure businesses that do dealings with the business they are in dispute with.