Executive Council Statement
Strengthen the Law to Give Workers Real Bargaining Power
… workplaces and on picket lines, at the bargaining table and the ballot box, working people are taking collective action to improve our jobs, our schools, our communities and our democracy. Fed up with decades of rigged economic rules that have … no binding process for reaching a first contract when a majority of workers make the decision to bargain collectively. The right of workers to make our voices heard through strikes, pickets and other activities continues to be fundamentally … a process for workers and employers to reach a first agreement; and protect the right to strike and eliminate “right to work” nationally. The Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act of 2018 (H.R. 6238) would ensure that all public-sector workers …