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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@BernieSanders Update: “It’s great to see a strong plan from Bernie Sanders to overhaul our defective and outdated labor laws,” @SEIU president @MaryKayHenry says; “2020 candidates can’t ignore the millions of workers demanding leaders rewrite the rules...”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/…
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Recently Uber has used its app to tell drivers that "Recent changes to California law could threaten your access to flexible work with Uber," & ask them to sign a petition to get the state legislature "to modernize the law".

Here's some context on what's afoot & what's at stake.
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Josh Eidelson
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I would suggest news outlets not use “allows staff to unionize” (wsj.com/articles/eliza…) as the way to describe an employer agreeing to recognize a union of their employees
“Unionize” gets used to mean various things: workers choosing to start organizing; workers forming an organization; workers’ union getting recognition from management, & thus the chance to collectively bargain. (“Unionized” as descriptor of a company usually refers to the latter)
Colloquially, “right to unionize” in U.S. often refers to workers’ right (guaranteed on paper in New Deal law to most private sector employees) to get their union recognized by employer and collectively bargain - if they prove majority support via Labor Board election
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Josh Eidelson
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New sweeping labor law reform bill introduced today by House & Senate Dems would:

Ban
- right-to-work laws
- permanent replacement of strikers
- mandatory "captive audience" meetings
- forced arbitration

& legalize

- secondary picketing/strikes
- intermittent strikes

&also...
- broaden definition of employee, like CA's "ABC" test
- let NLRB assess damages & hold company officials personally liable for violations
- let workers bring civil lawsuits over labor law violations in court
- require arbitration if deal isn't reached on first contract
& also...
- force companies to recognize a union based on majority of workers having signed union cards ("card-check") *if* illegal interference by management prevented union from winning an election
Sponsored by 40 senators including Sanders, Warren, Harris, Booker, Gillibrand, Klobuchar
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