Over 20 Leading Policy Groups Send Coalition Letter to Senate Raising Concerns with Senator Josh Hawley’s Anti-Worker Labor Framework

For Immediate Release: March 26, 2025
Contact: Mary Ellen Beatty, MaryEllen@i4aw.org

Over 20 Leading Policy Groups Send Coalition Letter to Senate Raising Concerns with Senator Josh Hawley’s Anti-Worker Labor Framework

I4AW Exposes Same Harmful PRO Act Policies in Hawley Framework

Click here to read the coalition letter.

HAMILTON, Va. ─ Today 23 policy organizations sent a coalition letter to the U.S. Senate raising concerns with how Senator Josh Hawley’s proposed labor framework will harm workers, job creators and the economy as a whole.

The letter was signed by 20 leading policy groups including Institute for the American Worker (I4AW), Americans for Prosperity, Americans for Tax Reform, and others. Click here to see the full list of signers.

“This ‘framework’ is just a repackaging of failed ideas from Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Protecting the Right to Organize Act. Even worse, it is completely one-sided and favors special interests over workers and job creators,” said F. Vincent Vernuccio, president of Institute for the American Worker.

The coalition letter outlines three aspects where the framework prioritizes special interests at the expense of workers’ freedom of choice and small business autonomy and speech:

• It expands bureaucracy by allowing a government agency to force union contracts on workers and employers if they cannot meet unrealistic and artificial timetables.
• It deprives workers of both the time and information needed to make an informed choice on whether or not to join a union.
• It mandates union organizing elections take place within just 20 business days, significantly limiting workers’ time to fully understand the implications of joining a union.
• It includes no corresponding provisions to protect workers from union abuses or to help workers conduct decertification elections when a majority express interest in removing a union from their workplace. This is the definition of one-sided—and workers are on the losing side.

I4AW also exposed the close comparison between Hawley’s framework and the Democrats’ Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which has been rejected by the Senate repeatedly. Click here to read their backgrounder.

The coalition letter urges the Senate to oppose Sen. Hawley’s framework in its current form and instead pursue balanced labor policies that empower workers while ensuing the continued growth and viability of small businesses across the country.

Click here to read the coalition letter and complete list of signers.

For more information or to set up an interview with I4AW founder and president, F. Vincent Vernuccio, please email Mary Ellen Beatty at MaryEllen@i4aw.org.

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