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Pro-Union Bill Stirs Debate in House Panel Hearing

House subcommittee members and four witnesses discussed the PRO Act and subsequent Republican bills that would counter it.
Pro-Union Bill Stirs Debate in House Panel Hearing
President Joe Biden addresses striking members of the United Auto Workers union at a picket line outside a General Motors service parts operations plant in Belleville, Mich., on Sept. 16, 2023. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
Aaron Gifford
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Members of Congress and a panel of witnesses on May 22 debated a proposed law aimed at accelerating the growth of unions and strengthening organized labor.

The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act took center stage at a hearing of the House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions in Washington. The bill was first introduced in 2021 but garnered increased attention more recently after President Joe Biden marched with striking members of the United Auto Workers.

Aaron Gifford
Aaron Gifford
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Aaron Gifford has written for several daily newspapers, magazines, and specialty publications and also served as a federal background investigator and Medicare fraud analyst. He graduated from the University at Buffalo and is based in Upstate New York.