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Executive Order Creates Task Force Aimed At Making It Easier For Workers to Unionize

 

Stop me if you have heard this before:  President Joe Biden has been aggressively ramping up pro-union measures to help strengthen labor unions since he took office in January.  (For reference, take a look here, here, or here.)  

At the end of April, President Biden took another step to bolster labor unions when he issued an Executive Order to create a task force aimed at strengthening unions and helping workers unionize.  The Executive Order took umbrage with the federal government for having not used its “full authority” to support unions in the past and mandated a “comprehensive approach” be taken to advance union organizing and collective bargaining going forward.  As a result, the Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment was created to advance these objectives.  The Task Force, chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, will make recommendations within 180 days on how to use the federal government’s policies, programs, and practices to empower workers to organize and successfully bargain with their employers.  Going one step further, the Task Force will also provide recommendations on how to “increase worker power” in parts of the country that have “hostile” labor laws and in industries that are difficult to organize.  (I am looking at you, Amazon and Alabama...)

Once these recommendations are made to President Biden and approved, the Task Force will be charged with implementing them and advancing a pro-union agenda.  Employers, buckle up.  This is about to get bump(ier).


For a copy of the Executive Order:  https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/04/26/executive-order-on-worker-organizing-and-empowerment/

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