The union's election overlaps with Biden and Democrats in Congress pushing the "PRO Act," legislation that would overhaul labor law to make organizing easier. Organized labor's Southern deficit is glaring: all 11 states of the old Confederacy have so-called "right to work" laws, which allow workers in unionized shops to opt out of paying union dues even as they retain the benefits and job protection negotiated by the union. Amazon, which has a long record of beating back organizing campaigns, has held mandatory sessions to tell workers a union would command dues when they already get the kind of compensation benefits, including health insurance, that unions negotiate.