President Rolls Back Labor-Friendly Policies

The White House says the moves will create fair and open competition for government contracts.  The AFL-CIO has characterized them as needlessly antagonistic, and has pledged to challenge them in court.

The four executive orders include:

• A requirement that federal contractors post a notice telling workers they have the right under a 1988 Supreme Court ruling not to pay portions of their dues that sponsor political activities.
• Revocation of the “project labor agreement,” which requires contractors in many federally financed projects to be unionized.
• Dissolution of the National Partnership Council, a Clinton organization that sought to mediate differences between government agencies and unions.
• Revoking the Clinton policy of job protection for employees of contractors at federal buildings when the project is awarded to another contractor.

– Nevin Adams       editors@plansponsor.com