New White House Task Force on Worker Organizing Established

President Biden signed an Executive Order on April 26, 2021, that establishes the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment “dedicated to mobilizing the federal government’s policies, programs, and practices to empower workers to organize and successfully bargain with their employers.”

Chaired by Vice President Harris, the new Task Force has been ordered by President Biden to make a set of recommendations within 180 days addressing two key issues: 

  1. How existing policies, programs, and practices can be used to promote worker organizing and collective bargaining in the federal government, and 
  2. Identify where new policies may be needed to achieve the Task Force’s mission and the necessary associated regulatory and statutory changes.

The Task Force has been charged with four specific goals:

  1. Ensure that the federal government is a model employer with respect to encouraging worker organizing and collective bargaining among its workforce.
  2. Facilitate worker organizing across the country by taking an all-of-government approach to mobilize the federal government’s policies, programs, and practices to provide workers the opportunity to organize and bargain collectively.
  3. Increase worker power in underserved communities by examining and seeking to address the particular challenges to worker organizing in jurisdictions with restrictive labor laws; the added challenges that marginalized workers in many communities encounter, including women and people of color; and the heightened barriers to organizing workers in certain industries.
  4. Increase union membership across the United States to grow a more inclusive middle class and provide workers the opportunity to come together for the purpose of mutual advancement, the dignity of worker and workers, respect, and the fair compensation they deserve.

Earlier this year, the Biden administration endorsed the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act), which passed in the House on March 9, 2021, and is currently in the Senate for consideration. 

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