As Labor Day approaches, Wisconsinites 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. Tammy Baldwin (D). Details below.

Currently, Wisconsin law protects Right to Work:

No person may require, as a condition of obtaining or continuing employment, an individual to do any of the following:

1. Refrain or resign from membership in, voluntary affiliation with, or voluntary financial support of a labor organization.

2. Become or remain a member of a labor organization.

3. Pay any dues, fees, assessments, or other charges or expenses of any kind or amount, or provide anything of value, to a labor organization.

4. Pay to any 3rd party an amount that is in place of, equivalent to, or any portion of dues, fees, assessments, or other charges or expenses required of members of, or employees represented by, a labor organization.

But a federal Right to Work ban signed into law by a President Kamala Harris would override Wisconsin’s Right to Work status.

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 laws.

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, 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 (including Tammy Baldwin) 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.

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 Wisconsin’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 Wisconsin franchisees and their employees by codifying the expanded joint employer standard.

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