Earlier this year, Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign boasted that a deal it cut with its workers to form a union demonstrated a commitment to worker rights.
It's a bold agenda, with recommendations to roll back portions of labor law dating back 60 years, impose new restraints on employers, and limit workers' ability to opt out of union membership-despite polls showing that most Americans believe workers deserve that option.
Sanders proposes to institute "Card check," the process by which unions can organize a worksite just by getting a majority of workers to sign a card saying that they want a union.
Right-to-work has become increasingly popular and accepted, with 71 percent of Americans saying that a worker shouldn't be forced to join a union that organizes his or her workplace.
The 1935 Wagner Act, which established the process by which private-sector workers could organize into unions and gain the right to bargain collectively, pointedly excluded government employees.
In 2014, Congress passed a plan to help these pension systems survive by allowing them to reduce worker benefits, but Sanders wants a federal bailout, which he would finance by limiting the amount that people can accumulate in their 401(k) accounts and more aggressively taxing certain high-end real-estate and art-market transactions.
In perhaps the most speculative of all his proposals, Sanders would ensure that any savings that employers realize in a Medicare for All plan would go back to workers in the form of higher wages.
https://www.city-journal.org/bernie-sanders-union-proposals
It's a bold agenda, with recommendations to roll back portions of labor law dating back 60 years, impose new restraints on employers, and limit workers' ability to opt out of union membership-despite polls showing that most Americans believe workers deserve that option.
Sanders proposes to institute "Card check," the process by which unions can organize a worksite just by getting a majority of workers to sign a card saying that they want a union.
Right-to-work has become increasingly popular and accepted, with 71 percent of Americans saying that a worker shouldn't be forced to join a union that organizes his or her workplace.
The 1935 Wagner Act, which established the process by which private-sector workers could organize into unions and gain the right to bargain collectively, pointedly excluded government employees.
In 2014, Congress passed a plan to help these pension systems survive by allowing them to reduce worker benefits, but Sanders wants a federal bailout, which he would finance by limiting the amount that people can accumulate in their 401(k) accounts and more aggressively taxing certain high-end real-estate and art-market transactions.
In perhaps the most speculative of all his proposals, Sanders would ensure that any savings that employers realize in a Medicare for All plan would go back to workers in the form of higher wages.
https://www.city-journal.org/bernie-sanders-union-proposals
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