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New: @BernieSanders today is releases a sweeping plan to fundamentally overhaul US labor law, including establishing sectoral bargaining, ending at-will employment, and reversing key provisions of Taft-Hartley bloomberg.com/news/articles/… “I think the momentum is with us,” he tells me

@BernieSanders & Sanders plan (bloomberg.com/news/articles/…) would
-extend bargaining rights to state/local gov't employees
-let federal employees strike
-require "just cause" to fire workers
-protect contracts during mergers
- deny federal contracts over union-busting
- ban right-to-work laws
&...

@BernieSanders ...Sanders labor plan (bloomberg.com/news/articles/… & bloomberg.com/news/articles/…) would also
- Let workers win union recognition via card-check
- Establish mediation & arbitration for first contracts
- Legalize secondary boycotts/picketing
- Ban permanent replacement of strikers
&...

@BernieSanders Sanders plan (bloomberg.com/news/articles/…) would also
- Ban mandatory anti-union meetings
- Halt pension cuts authorized by 2014 deal
- Make it harder to claim workers are contractors or supervisors
- Ensure Medicare for All savings “result in wage increases and additional benefits"

@BernieSanders “What is a worker’s line of defense? It is the right to strike,” Sanders told me. “That is the means that you have to tell your employer, ‘Hey, we’re serious.’” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@BernieSanders Asked why his labor legislation could get through Congress after more modest reform failed under Obama, Sanders cited increased labor militancy & widespread popular support. “I think workers are getting sick & tired of the decimation of the working class.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@BernieSanders "The problem right now is if workers try to organize a union, the decked is stacked against them under current law," @BernieSanders said."If we change that playing field and you give workers a fair shot at being in a union, I think millions of workers will take advantage of that"

@BernieSanders Update: “It’s great to see a strong plan from Bernie Sanders to overhaul our defective and outdated labor laws,” @SEIU president @MaryKayHenry says; “2020 candidates can’t ignore the millions of workers demanding leaders rewrite the rules...” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

@BernieSanders @SEIU @MaryKayHenry Sanders would halt, via executive order, pension benefit cuts that were made possible by a 2014 compromise signed into law by President Obama when Joe Biden was VP. Sanders says that agreement was a “middle of the night deal” and “an outrage.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…