President Donald Trump ran on a platform of empowering workers, and a new bill in Congress will help him keep that promise. On April 17, Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) introduced the Start Applying Labor Transparency Act, which would require unions to practice the same transparency as businesses when it comes to talking to workers about unionization. This commonsense reform will ensure workers are able to make a fully informed decision about whether to join a union.

Unions are taking advantage of a loophole in federal law. Currently, businesses are legally required to disclose when they hire a consultant to talk with workers about unionization, but labor unions are held to a different standard. They can secretly place organizers in workplaces they want to unionize, undermining transparency and accountability. These organizers are called “salts,” and the SALT Act is designed to bring them into the open.