Arizona has been a Right to Work state since 1946. As Labor Day approaches, Arizonans should be aware that Vice President Kamala Harris has vowed to ban Right to Work nationwide.

Harris said: “Banning Right to Work laws. That needs to happen.” She officially supports legislation to ban Right to Work, as does Sen. Mark Kelly and Senate candidate Ruben Gallego (D). Details below.

Currently, Article 25 of the Arizona constitution protects Arizona’s right to work:

No person shall be denied the opportunity to obtain or retain employment because of non-membership in a labor organization, nor shall the State or any subdivision thereof, or any corporation, individual or association of any kind enter into any agreement, written or oral, which excludes any person from employment or continuation of employment because of non-membership in a labor organization.

But a federal Right to Work ban signed into law by a President Kamala Harris would override Arizona’s Right to Work status and upend the state’s economy.

Harris wants to ban Right to Work laws which protect at least 162 million Americans in 26 states. Right to Work laws allow workers the freedom of employment without forced payment of union dues to a union boss.

Documentation of Kamala Harris vow to ban Right to Work

First, we have her spoken word which can be viewed here and below:

Further evidence of her desire to ban Right to Work: her support of the “PRO Act” — legislation which bans Right to Work.

On July 25 Harris re-stated her pledge to labor honchos that if elected she will impose the PRO Act on the American people. The PRO Act bans Right to Work nationwide including in key states Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina and Nevada.

The PRO Act, introduced as H.R. 20 in the House of Representatives and S. 567 in the Senate, is a radical wishlist authored by organized labor bosses. The primary sponsors are Sen. Bernie Sanders (Socialist-Vt.) and Congressman Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and the bill has the support of nearly the entire Democrat caucus: 214 additional Democrats in the House and 48 Democrats in the Senate are cosponsors of the bill.

Harris was also a cosponsor of the PRO Act during her time as the most liberal member of the Senate. Another example of Harris calling for a Right to Work ban can be found here.

During Harris’s brief tease of Arizona Senator Mark Kelly as a potential running mate, Kelly threw Arizona under the bus, kissed the labor boss ring and endorsed the Right to Work-banning PRO Act.

Senator Kelly’s recent PRO Act endorsement is significant because if victorious, Democrats are expected to end the 60-vote requirement in the Senate in favor of a simple majority, so there is a real threat the PRO Act will be imposed as soon as 2025. Arizona’s Right to Work status would be taken away from on high by Washington DC progressives.

Democrat senate nominee Ruben Gallego also wants to impose the PRO Act on Arizona.

Progressive-left Harris running mate Tim Walz — a man who loves tax increases so much he blew through an $18 billion budget surplus only to raise taxes on the middle class — also frequently rails against Right to Work.

The 26 Right to Work states are: Georgia, Florida, Wisconsin, Iowa, Arizona, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Tennessee, Indiana, Kentucky, Nevada, Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Idaho, Utah, and Kansas.

The PRO Act would also harm Arizona’s independent contractors and freelancers by nationalizing California’s “ABC” test which has destroyed the livelihood of California independent contractors who want to be their own boss. Click here to read hundreds of personal stories of independent contractors harmed by this draconian approach in California.

The PRO Act would violate worker privacy by forcing employers to give union organizers sensitive employee contact information, including home addresses, cell phone and landline numbers, and email addresses. This would allow union bosses to intimidate workers into joining unions at homes or workplaces. 

The PRO Act would also take away workers’ rights to a secret ballot election. The PRO Act would change union elections so that union bosses could walk around collecting cards from workers to demonstrate support for the union, rather than holding a secret ballot election. This will subject workers to intimidation from union boss henchmen who can approach workers in person to demand signatures instead of allowing them to vote in private. Coupled with the forced transfer of workers’ personal information to labor unions, workers may be intimidated or threatened by union activists who visit them at their own homes.

Furthermore the PRO Act would severely harm franchisees and their employees by codifying the expanded joint employer standard.

Stay tuned to ATR’s Kamalanomics.org for updates.