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Hawley Sells Moreno on Government Control of Private Contracts
February 7, 2025 // PunchbowlNews has reported that Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH) is cosponsoring one of the bills based on Senator Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) recently released legislative framework implementing a “new direction” for Republican labor policy, which ironically appears to consist entirely of provisions stolen from Senator Bernie Sanders’ (D-VT) Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act (S 567, HR 20, 118th Congress) and Senator Markey’s bill that brings the warehouse sector under government control and creates a new subagency at the Department of Labor (Warehouse Worker Protection Act, S 5208, 118th Congress). The framework is expected to be broken down into five pieces, and Moreno is reportedly cosponsoring the legislation that would implement government control over management-union contract negotiations. The legislation, the Faster Labor Contracts Act, requires employers and unions to begin negotiating collective bargaining agreements within 10 days after a union wins a representation election and execute their agreement within months
DOL Reiterates Existing Law in New Report on “Coercive” Contractual Provisions
October 21, 2024 // On October 17, 2024, the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of the Solicitor (SOL) issued its Special Enforcement Report on what it deems to be “coercive contractual provisions” that “may discourage workers from exercising their rights under worker protections laws,” but while aggressive language is used, the report is largely a restatement of current law and, for the most part, does not outline new enforcement actions against employers for utilizing these provisions.