"Although union density has diminished, workplace inequities have caused workers' desires for union membership to grow. And while anti-labor sentiment has seemingly been institutionalized, it is losing ground in the court of public opinion." — Mark Gaston Pearce, WRI Executive Director
WRI Executive Director Mark Gaston Pearce traveled to the ABA Labor and Employment sections' conference in San Juan, PR to speak before experts in the field on how the new NLRB election rule will cause more challenges to workers' ability to organize.
The PRO Act proposes to expand the NLRB's ability to offer workers compensation for harms suffered, to make injunctive relief in the event of employer unfair practices mandatory instead of optional, to create an avenue for workers to bring a civil action in Federal court, and to make joining a Union and negotiating a first contract substantially easier.
WRI Executive Director Mark Gaston Pearce offered testimony to the House based on his own experiences as Chairman of the Board. He emphasized the importance of reevaluating the procedural difficulties and the limitations that have impeded the NLRB from fulfilling the NLRA's dual mission to make harmed workers whole and to deter future unlawful conduct by employers.
“As the Board’s experience in Pacific Beach Hotel shows, when employers discover that the cost of noncompliance is so low, they sometimes violate the law frequently over the course of many years. It isn’t difficult to understand why.” — Mark Gaston Pearce on the remedial limitations of the NLRB.
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