Tens of millions of Americans deal with differing levels of fraud every year, so many that, in Oregon, Attorney General Dan Rayfield has made consumer protection one of his top priorities. 

When Oregon Democrats introduced House Bill 3789 and called it the Workers’ Fraud Protection Act, proclaiming to protect public employees from bad actors falsely impersonating their union representatives, it sounded good. According to the proponents, Oregon has no existing laws to prevent such behavior, so the bill creates one and “allows the union to file a lawsuit against a person who breaks the law.”

If true, that sounds fair enough. If individuals or organizations are truly impersonating unions and union representatives, that should be a crime. But you know what? It already is. Existing Oregon criminal laws, such as the ones Rayfield is currently using to crack down on such crimes, already prohibit the false impersonation of any individual or business, including unions and their representatives. 

The only problem is that HB 3789’s supporters and Democratic sponsors failed to mention this. And their Workers’ Fraud Protection Act isn’t actually supported by any workers. 

So, who supports the bill, and why do they want it? The

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