Democrats Seek to Roll Back Right-to-Work Protections

Angella Richberg works on an engine for a Dodge Viper at the Viper Assembly Plant in Detroit, Mich., on May 8, 2015. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

WASHINGTON—Forty Senate Democrats and 100 of their party colleagues in the House of Representatives are pushing a bill that they claim “would empower millions of Americans,” but that critics blast as repealing key provisions of a landmark law that has governed labor-management relations since 1947.

The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act includes a host of regulatory and statute reforms that are needed, according to a House Education and Labor Committee fact sheet, because of growing economic inequality.