White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment Release Report

​Last week, the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment released its long-awaited report detailing nearly 70 recommendations for revising the nation’s labor laws and regulations. The recommendations put forth by the Task Force, which are specific to federal contractors and private employers, represent President Biden’s commitment to being “the strongest labor president you have ever had.”  The recommendations in the Task Force Report were developed in collaboration with executive agencies, departments, and White House offices.

As set forth in the report, the Task Force developed its recommendations around three stated goals:

• Position the federal government as a “model actor”;
• Use the federal government’s authority to support worker empowerment by providing information, improving transparency, and making sure existing pro-worker services are delivered in a timely and helpful manner; and
• Use claimed authority to leverage the federal government’s purchasing and spending power to support workers who are organizing and pro-worker employers.

 
According to Littler, the report makes clear that the Biden administration views the federal government and its agencies as tools to increase union membership, not as neutral bodies to serve all constituents. The report appears to share some of the same goals as the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which HCAOA opposed, which passed the House of Representatives on March 9, 2021, but has not moved since.
 
Click here for more information on the report from Littler.