Presidential Executive Order 14025 (Joe Biden, 2021)

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Executive Order 14025: Worker Organizing and Empowerment is a presidential executive order issued by President Joe Biden (D) on April 26, 2021. The order established a task force that aimed "to encourage worker organizing and collective bargaining," according to the order. [1]

E.O. 14025 revoked two executive orders signed by President Donald Trump (R):

Background

President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris (D) stated in a fact sheet on E.O. 14025 that they “believe that the decline of union membership is contributing to serious societal and economic problems in our country,” including “economic inequality, stagnant real wages, and the shrinking of America’s middle class.”[2]

E.O. 14025 established a task force to “identify executive branch policies, practices, and programs that could be used, consistent with applicable law, to promote [the Biden Administration]’s policy of support for worker power, worker organizing, and collective bargaining.” The order stated that the task force “also shall identify statutory, regulatory, or other changes that may be necessary to make policies, practices, and programs more effective means of supporting worker organizing and collective bargaining.”[1]

The task force, chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris (D), had 180 days to submit recommendations “to promote worker organizing and collective bargaining in the public and private sectors, and to increase union density.”[1]

Response

Support

The following selected responses to E.O. 14025 demonstrate support for the order:

  • Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said, “We commend President Biden for launching this task force to make it easier for workers to organize and join a union. As our nation continues to recover from this pandemic, ensuring that workers have a voice on the job to negotiate for fair wages, safer working conditions and better benefits will be key to building back better.”[3]
  • White House labor advisor Seth Harris said, “In the past we’ve had very good-faith efforts by some presidents to do individual things, like executive order and regulatory actions [to help unions]. The question is, what about a whole-of-government approach? We never sit down and think about what it would be like if the whole government was organized around the principle that worker organizing was a good thing and not a bad thing.”[4]
  • Jared Bernstein, a member of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, said, “There is a huge gap between the number of working Americans who want to be represented by unions and have collective bargaining and the number who are in unions. It could make a very big difference in this space to have a president who uses the bully pulpit to make this a front-and-center preference.”[4]

Opposition

The following selected responses to E.O. 14025 demonstrate opposition to the order:

  • U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), ranking Republican member on the House Education and Labor Committee, said the order “further solidified [Biden’s] cushy relationship with union bosses; the same people responsible for swindling workers’ hard-earned paychecks and pushing radical, unworkable policies that lead to lower economic growth.”[4]
  • National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix said, “This is yet another move by the Biden White House to give the president’s Big Labor political allies more power at the expense of the rights of rank-and-file workers who overwhelmingly have chosen not to affiliate or associate with a labor union.”[5]
  • Sean Higgins, a research fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said, “President Biden seems to believe joining a union is an obligation that the federal government must prod workers to do. … This executive order is a harbinger of further aggressive sales tactics from this administration on behalf of its union allies.”[6]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Federal Register, "Worker Organizing and Empowerment," April 26, 2021
  2. ↑ The White House, "FACT SHEET: Executive Order Establishing the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment," April 26, 2021
  3. ↑ AFSCME, "AFSCME applauds executive order on worker organizing and empowerment," April 26, 2021
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 The Guardian, "Biden stakes claim to being America’s most pro-union president ever," accessed May 10, 2021
  5. ↑ The Washington Times, "Biden creates task force to spur unionization of U.S. workforce," April 26, 2021
  6. ↑ Competitive Enterprise Institute, "President Biden’s Pro-Labor Executive Order Goes Beyond Law’s Intent," April 26, 2021
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