Worker Organizing and Empowerment
Creates Task Force to Promote Worker Organizing and Collective Bargaining
What it does
Agencies must work through a White House task force to identify and recommend policies to promote worker organizing within 180 days.
Real-world impact
- Establishes a White House task force to recommend pro-union changes.
- Agencies may change procurements, grants, and personnel rules to support organizing.
- Directs officials to consider rescinding prior workforce council orders and abolish positions.
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Summary
This order creates a White House task force to identify federal policies that can promote union organizing and collective bargaining. The Vice President will chair the task force, which includes many agency leaders and must submit recommendations within 180 days.
The task force will focus on ways to help marginalized and hard-to-organize workers and may recommend legal or administrative changes. It also revokes two prior workforce-related orders and asks agencies to consider rescinding related rules and abolishing positions.
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