After the past year and a half, Congress should be working overtime to support and strengthen local businesses like mine (Round Table Pizza). Instead, some Washington, D.C. politicians are more focused on passing policies that will give an unfair advantage to big labor bosses.
The “PRO Act” — short for Protecting the Right to Organize — would give unions more power to force unionization on Alaska workers and businesses by overturning or rewriting decades of existing labor laws. As a result, local businesses like mine could face an increased threat of picketing and boycotting, while also being saddled with massive new costs and liabilities as well as the constant threat of excessively punitive penalties for even the smallest violations that have nothing to do with labor or working conditions.
Alaska businesses cannot afford policies like the PRO Act, plain and simple. I am confident that Sen. Lisa Murkowski will help ensure it does not pass in any form, including through the budget reconciliation process in the U.S. Senate.
— Liz Ashlock
Owner, Round Table Pizza
Anchorage
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