The Biden Administration has made public the long-anticipated report of the President’s “Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment” (Task Force), and not surprisingly, the Task Force has made dozens of policy recommendations designed to increase labor union membership in the United States. Rather than stressing new legislation, which has little chance of being enacted in the current Congress, the report’s recommendations largely focus on how the government can further leverage its federal contract and grant authority to force or incentivize conduct that facilitates unionization.
Some of the Task Force recommendations will sound familiar, as they borrow from failed initiatives of the past such as the Clinton Administration’s Executive Order (E.O.) prohibiting federal contractors from using certain strike replacement workers or the Obama Administration’s “blacklisting” E.O. At the same time, however, there are many other novel, albeit somewhat more measured, recommendations that may be designed to prevail over the inevitable legal challenges that have derailed high profile efforts of past Democratic Administrations.
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