As if President Joe Biden has not presided over enough damage to the economy and government interference in employment, he wants to erase right-to-work laws across the country and force workers to pay union dues.
“Let’s pass the PRO Act,” Biden declared during the State of the Union. “When a majority of workers want to form a union, they shouldn’t be able to be stopped.”
But the PRO Act isn’t about workers. It’s about unions. The bill would reward unions by eliminating right-to-work laws across the country, forcing workers to lose part of their salaries to unions in the form of dues they don’t want to play. Those unions then turn around and use that money to help elect Democrats.
More than half the U.S. population lives in right-to-work states. In short, Democrats want to add them to the union funding pool.
The bill would also devastate the gig economy. Biden was a big fan of California’s bill that did exactly that, restricting the freedom of workers to operate as independent contractors or freelancers and leading to layoffs in several industries.
None of this is a surprise for Biden or for the Democratic Party. Biden, after all, let teachers unions set the COVID guidance for schools throughout the pandemic. While unions fought to keep schools closed and caused irreparable damage to the academic growth of children throughout the country, Biden sought to placate them. Naturally, he wants to try and funnel even more workers (and their salaries as mandatory dues) into unions, no matter what workers actually want.
Biden and the Democratic Party, in subservience to their union boosters, are willing to tank sectors of the economy and force workers to fund unions they don’t want to be a part of. Biden wants you to believe he knows what your career should look like better than you. Given how poorly his first year has gone, you would be forgiven if you were skeptical.
