Buried inside more than $2 trillion in proposed spending on everything from highways to child care, President Joe Biden's "American Jobs Plan" would also force non-union workers to pay union dues even in states that have explicitly said that's not mandatory.
Biden glossed over that detail in Wednesday's speech outlining the particulars of his "American Jobs Plan." He made just a single reference to the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which passed the House earlier this month, calling it a bill that would "Help workers organize." In reality, the PRO Act strengthens unions by telling workers to pay up.
If passed, the PRO Act would roll back the rights of individual workers, who would no longer get to choose whether they want to financially support a union.
Passage of the PRO Act is obviously a major political priority for labor unions-Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, recently described it as a "Game-changer" in an interview with NPR-because it wold provide a new stream of revenue even as the overall number of unionized workers continues to decline.
If Biden is seeking an economic boost for the country, he'd push to let all workers enjoy the freedom to choose whether to support a union or keep more of their paychecks.
The White House says Biden's "American Jobs Plan" will give workers "a free and fair choice to join a union." But in calling for the passage of the PRO Act, Biden is actually taking that choice away from many workers who currently enjoy it-and transfer money directly from workers' paychecks to labor unions' bottom lines.
"The PRO Act does strengthen unions, but it does so mainly by giving unions more power to force recalcitrant workers to fall in line," says Sean Higgins, a research fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market think tank.
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