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Sanders Unveils Sweeping Labor Plan With Sectorwide Bargaining
By Josh Eidelson
August 21, 2019, 9:00 AM EDT
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The Vermont senator will unveil the plan Wednesday as he and most other Democratic presidential candidates address the Iowa Federation of Labor’s annual convention in Altoona. Organized labor is a key constituency and major source of Democratic votes, volunteers and campaign funds.
“What I believe is that we’re not going to grow the middle class of this country unless we revitalize the trade union movement and unless we provide the opportunity for millions of workers to do what they want, and that is to join trade unions,” Sanders said in an interview on Tuesday.
Sanders’s labor platform includes ending “at-will” employment, so companies could no longer fire workers without showing they had “just cause”; extending collective bargaining rights to state and local government employees; and allowing federal employees to strike.
The plan would create a European-style sectoral collective bargaining system in which labor and management would negotiate minimum standards for entire industries, rather than only company by company. It would also halt, via executive order, pension benefit cuts that were made possible by a 2014 compromise signed into law by President Barack Obama, whose vice president, Joe Biden, is now the Democratic frontrunner. Sanders called the compromise a “middle of the night deal” and “an outrage.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-21/sanders-unveils-sweeping-labor-plan-with-sectorwide-bargaining
