Is JD Vance Really A Friend Of Unions?
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING Earlier this year Senate Democrats penned a letter attacking Amazon over its labor practices, calling the retail giant’s subcontracted delivery network a big scheme to prevent drivers from unionizing. “Vance may do a little bit better on the rhetoric, but there isn’t a ton of daylight between the vice-presidential nominee and Trump.” - Celine McNicholas, Economic Policy Institute The idea of a pro-union dawn in the Republican Party is complicated by a few things ― first and foremost, Trump’s patently anti-union record as president, as well as the voting records of ostensibly union-friendly Republicans like Vance. Benjamin Sachs, a labor law professor at Harvard Law School, said it’s dangerous to pursue such a discrete reform when it’s not part of a broader, holistic approach to reengineering a ruptured system ― such as the one Sachs co-authored, called “Clean Slate for Worker Power.” “If you just have works councils like the TEAM Act proposes, I think you’re going to end up with company unions,” Sachs said. If Vance supports sectoral bargaining, Sachs added, then he should back the current, progressive NLRB’s “joint employer” rule, which makes it easier for more workers to form unions ― including the Amazon drivers who Vance said are being gamed by the e-commerce giant. But most of the document, which the Trump campaign has tried to distance itself from, sounds like standard conservative anti-labor policy: increase oversight of unions, label more workers as “independent contractors,” exempt more employers from coverage under the National Labor Relations Act, make fewer workers eligible for overtime pay, expand the use of child labor and restrict what’s considered “protected concerted activity” by workers.
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