Guest Commentary
The PRO Act Would Undo Decades of Southern Anti-Union Laws Rooted in Racism
Guest Commentator
Right-to-work laws proliferated across the Midwest in the mid-2000s. But their roots are in the Jim Crow South, in the milieu of anti-Black racism and anti-Semitism wielded by rich white Southerners and their Northern allies to maintain an economic system built on racial division and cheap labor.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, with 42 House Democrats from Southern states as cosponsors. The bill…
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