To a US Senator: support the PRO Act

Personalize at minimum the open and one body paragraph. Reference your own work or a workplace you know if possible — first-person voice carries weight on this issue. If your senator is undecided or formally opposed, your letter is especially valuable; if they’re already a co-sponsor, thanks are appropriate but not the highest-value advocacy.

Dear Senator [Last Name],

I’m writing as a constituent in [city/town] to ask you to support the Protecting the Right to Organize Act and to advance it for floor consideration this session.

The PRO Act is the most consequential pro-labor legislation seriously considered in the United States since the 1930s. The substantive case for it is straightforward: union density in the US has fallen from 35% of workers in the 1950s to under 10% today, even as polling on union approval has reached multi-decade highs. The gap between approval and density is the gap that the PRO Act is designed to close.

The bill would, in concrete terms:

1. End captive-audience meetings, which most successful anti-union campaigns rely on.
2. Restore card-check union recognition, eliminating the gap between organizing and election that has defeated most modern union campaigns.
3. Require first-contract arbitration when employers stall good-faith negotiation — the structural fix for the half of newly certified unions that currently never reach a first contract.
4. Override state right-to-work laws in the private sector.
5. End permanent replacement of striking workers, restoring the practical meaning of the right to strike.
6. Apply the strict ABC test to misclassification, narrowing the platform-economy escape valve that has written large categories of workers out of federal labor protection.
7. Impose meaningful civil penalties for unfair labor practices, replacing a system in which violations have been an accepted cost of business since the 1980s.

[If applicable: I’m a worker in [industry/role], or I work alongside people whose ability to organize is currently constrained by [specific aspect of current labor law]. Connect to your own experience or knowledge.]

The bill has passed the House twice. The binding constraint has been Senate procedural posture. I’m asking you to support the bill on the merits and to support whatever procedural movement is required to bring it to a meaningful vote.

I’d appreciate knowing your position.

Thank you for representing our state.

Sincerely,

[Your name] [Your full address]