Protecting America s Workers Act
Upcoming Congressional Hearing
Biden Administration Labor Leadership Updates.
On Thursday, April 29, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, &
Pensions (HELP) Committee held a confirmation hearing for
Ms. Jennifer Abruzzo to serve as General Counsel
of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and
Ms. Seema
Nanda to serve as Solicitor for the U.S. Department of
Labor. In opening remarks, Senate HELP Committee Ranking
Member Richard Burr (R-North Carolina) criticized the Biden
Administration for what he considers its abrupt and unprecedented
firing of NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb, questioning the
independence and integrity of the General Counsel s office
after this action. He also expressed concern over Ms. Abruzzo s
Protecting America’s Workers Act
Upcoming Congressional Hearing
Biden Administration Labor Leadership Updates. On Thursday, April 29, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions (HELP) Committee held a confirmation hearing for
Ms. Jennifer Abruzzo to serve as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and
Ms. Seema Nanda to serve as Solicitor for the U.S. Department of Labor. In opening remarks, Senate HELP Committee Ranking Member Richard Burr (R-North Carolina) criticized the Biden Administration for what he considers its abrupt and unprecedented firing of NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb, questioning the independence and integrity of the General Counsel’s office after this action. He also expressed concern over Ms. Abruzzo’s involvement in the Agency Review Team for Labor and questioned Ms. Nanda’s “highly partisan” background.
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In September 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden promised organized labor that, if elected, he would be the “strongest labor president you’ve ever had.” In his first 100 days in office, now President Biden has acted quickly and aggressively to make good on this pledge. Some of these efforts have quickly come to fruition; the fate of others remains unclear and are likely to require congressional approval no certainty in a Congress where both the House of Representatives and Senate are operating with historically narrow margins. What is abundantly clear is that the new administration is committed to revisiting prior administration policies and moving decisively to advance its own pro-labor agenda, and in only 100 days, it has taken significant steps to do so.
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Following on his promises to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen,” President Joe Biden signed the
Executive Order on Worker Organizing and Empowerment (“Executive Order”) on April 26, 2021, creating a task force whose purpose is to strengthen unions and make it easier for workers to unionize. Along with
endorsing the Protecting the Rights to Organize Act in March, President Biden is affirmatively putting a heavy federal foot on the scale to empower unions and bolster declining union membership, both in the public and private sectors.
The Executive Order criticized the federal government for not having used its “full authority” to support unions and declared it necessary for the federal government to take a “comprehensive approach” to advancing union organizing and collective bargaining. Under these auspices, the Executive Order created the Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment