This report outlines the Biden-Harris Administration’s strategy to strengthening worker power, organizing, and collective bargaining, including a comprehensive list of the executive actions recommended as part of this strategy. The recommendations focus on three core areas: positioning the federal government as a model employer, enhancing transparency and worker education on their organizing rights, and utilizing purchasing power to favor employers with strong labor standards. Key initiatives include strengthening compliance with existing labor laws, improving reporting on anti-union activity, and facilitating first contracts for newly organized units. The report also addresses systemic issues like worker misclassification, advocates for legislative reform such as the PRO Act, and emphasizes the deep, unfulfilled demand for union representation, noting that nearly 60 million American workers would join a union if given the chance. While the report is now outdated in terms of federal policy, it continues to be a useful guide to strategies that could be taken by policymakers, employers, or advocates to overcome decades of declining union density and diminished worker voice, and may be especially relevant for policymakers and the state and local levels who aim to implement pro-worker policies.
This is part of a collection of resources created by the Department of Labor and other federal agencies, relating to job quality and implementing good jobs priorities through federal investments and beyond. Many of these resources are no longer publicly available on government websites, though they were all at one point public and shared with the intent of preserving these resources for public use.
Please note that we cannot guarantee that information contained in these resources related to specific programs, policies, and processes remains accurate, though many best practices and examples remain useful. In addition, many of these resources link out to government websites that do not exist anymore. You may be able to find these linked resources in the archive itself by searching the Overview document. For more resources, please visit the Data Rescue Project website, at https://www.datarescueproject.org/
