EMPLOYER ACCOUNTABILITY
“My dad used to say, ‘The only way to deal with power is to have power.’ You think corporate America is going to roll over because all of a sudden they realize what’s going on is not fair? We need power. And the only power capable to deal with the corruption in our country, with how people are being treated, is union power.”7
--Joe Biden, to the IBEW’s 2020 Campaign Kick-Off, 7/8/20
Joe Biden has a plan to hold employers, corporations and their executives accountable for their attack on the rights of America’s working people.8
His plan will unambiguously:
- Enact provisions instituting financial penalties on companies that interfere with workers’ organizing efforts, including firing or otherwise retaliating against workers
- Support holding company executives personally liable when they interfere with organizing efforts, including criminally liable when their interference is intentional
- Advocate banning captive audience meetings, shortening the timeline for union election campaigns and preventing employers from stalling negotiations with newly formed unions
- Pursue employers aggressively who violate labor laws, participate in wage theft or cheat on their taxes by intentionally misclassifying employees as independent contractors9
- Biden plans call for funding a dramatic increase in the number of investigators in labor and employment enforcement agencies to facilitate a large anti-misclassification effort10
- They also ensure federal dollars do not flow to employers who engage in union-busting activities, participate in wage theft or violate labor law11
- End bad faith bargaining by giving the NLRB the necessary power to force any employer found to be bargaining in bad faith back to the negotiating table, as called for in the PRO Act.12
IBEW Local 73 Political Action Page
7 http://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/20Daily/2007/2020Campaign
8 https://joebiden.com/EmpowerWorkers/
9 https://joebiden.com/EmpowerWorkers/
10 https://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-from-workers-paychecks-each-year/
11 https://joebiden.com/EmpowerWorkers/
12 https://joebiden.com/EmpowerWorkers/
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