Jobs Agenda: Labor
The U.S. Chamber supports fair workplace rules that protect workers and promote employer flexibility and economic growth, while opposing harmful proposals and burdensome regulations that generate litigation and penalties instead of jobs.
The Facts
- Unions make up only 6.9% of the private sector workforce.
- Unions are advocating for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to reverse dozens of balanced decisions and restrict employers’ free speech rights and ability to manage their workplace. The Chamber details more than 50 cases in its report The National Labor Relations Board in the Obama Administration: What Changes to Expect.
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The Department of Labor (DOL) continues to work from organized labor’s wish list. The most recent
regulatory agenda is packed with proposals supported by organized labor that would reduce employers’ ability to respond to organizing campaigns, weaken union financial disclosure requirements, and increase the use of enforcement over compliance assistance.
The U.S. Chamber’s Plan to Fight Unfair and Harmful Workplace Rules and Mandates
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Educate on anti-employer policies and expose union intimidation tactics:
- The Chamber educates and mobilizes Americans to help block anti-employer legislative initiatives, provide meaningful written comments to the administration’s proposed regulations, and expose coercive and intimidating union organizing tactics.
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Oppose harmful rewrites of our nation’s employment laws and regulations, including the following:
- Expanding liability and damages under federal employment laws.
- Exposing employers to new liabilities over how they classify their workers.
- Allowing unions to engage in abusive shareholder activism.
- Mandating that employers implement OSHA-designed comprehensive safety and health programs.
- Requiring employers to post notices about unionizing.
- Instituting off-site, electronic voting for union certifications.
- Redefining bargaining units across the entire economy.
- Dictating decisions about where employers can locate work.
- Cutting short the union election window to prevent employers from responding.
- Making it more difficult for employers to receive expert advice about union issues.
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Preserve democracy in the American workplace, restrain pension fund abuses, and block labor’s anti-competitive agenda:
- The Chamber, through its Workforce Freedom Initiative (WFI), a grassroots mobilization and advocacy campaign, works to preserve democracy in the workplace, restrain abusive union pension fund activism, and block labor’s anti-competitive agenda.
- In March 2011, WFI released The Impact of State Employment Policies on Job Growth: A 50-State Review, a study revealing that states with the largest burden of labor and employment regulation are sacrificing opportunities to reduce their unemployment rate and generate new business startups.
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The Workforce Freedom Initiative is a multimillion-dollar grassroots mobilization and advocacy campaign of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to preserve democracy in the American workplace, restrain abusive union pension fund activism, and block the anti-competitive agenda advocated by many labor unions. |
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We fully anticipate that the National Labor Relations Board will now enter a very active period with numerous decisions and policy changes that will be of keen interest to all stakeholders. The NLRB Insight blog assists employers, trade associations, and others in identifying important developments at the NLRB with policy implications. |
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