On June 9, the House of Representatives passed the Faster Labor Contracts Act. All Democrats and 20 Republicans supported the bill, which would give unprecedented authority to the federal government to interfere with labor-management relations in the private sector. The bill passed despite widespread concern about the implications of the bill, as evidenced by the […]

Today, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) and 376 undersigned organizations sent a letter to Members of the U.S. House of Representatives urging them to oppose the Faster Labor Contracts Act (H.R. 5408), which is being brought to the House floor via a discharge petition (H.Res. 1140). The FLCA would empower the federal government […]

On June 4, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) sent a letter to the House Education & Workforce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions for its hearing, “Examining the Policies and Priorities of the NLRB.” Drawing on an analysis from LRI Consulting Services of 190,743 unfair labor practice charges filed from 2016 […]

On June 1, the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) released a white paper on the perils of the Faster Labor Contracts Act, legislation pending a House floor vote via a Democrat-led discharge petition. CDW’s white paper, The Arbitration Trap: Why the Faster Labor Contracts Act Is Bad for Workers, Employers, and the American Economy, explains how […]