Worker Organizing and Empowerment

The order establishes the Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment inside the Executive Office of the President. Chaired by the Vice President — with the Secretary of Labor as Vice Chair — the task force includes nearly every cabinet secretary, the OMB Director, the OPM Director, the U.S. Trade Representative, senior White House advisers, and other agency heads the President may later designate. The task force is directed to identify existing executive-branch policies, practices, and programs — including regulations, grants, procurement, and tax and trade enforcement — that could promote worker organizing and collective bargaining, particularly in areas with hostile labor laws, for marginalized workers, and in industries undergoing change.

The task force's authority is advisory only; it must submit formal recommendations to the President within 180 days, though it may send time-sensitive recommendations earlier. The President may then approve recommendations for agency implementation. The order also revokes two prior executive orders (EO 13845 and EO 13931) that had established the President's National Council for the American Worker, and directs OMB and agency heads to promptly rescind implementing rules and abolish any positions or committees created under those orders.

Federal departments and agencies directed to participate in the task force and, once recommendations are approved, to revise their programs accordingly. Labor organizations, worker advocates, and academic experts are invited to provide input. Workers seeking union representation, and employers subject to labor law, are the broader population the task force is meant to address.

If the President approves the task force's recommendations, agencies across the executive branch could be required to retool regulations, grants, procurement rules, and enforcement practices to favor union organizing — affecting workers, employers, and unions in both public and private sectors nationwide.

The Vice President chairs the task force and may create subcommittees as needed; the task force may also consult with the NLRB, Federal Labor Relations Authority, and National Mediation Board. Within 180 days, the task force submits a package of recommendations to the President; approved recommendations then flow back to member agencies for implementation, with progress reports directed by the Chair. In parallel, OMB and agency heads must promptly rescind rules and abolish positions tied to the two revoked Trump-era orders, subject to the Administrative Procedure Act.