Originally Posted by
velosnow
Huh, that's weird...straight from Bernie's talking points...
- Double union membership within Bernie’s first term.
- Establish federal protections against the firing of workers for any reason other than “just cause.”
- Provide unions the ability to organize through a majority sign up process and enact “first contract” provisions to ensure companies cannot prevent a union from forming by denying a first contract.
- Deny federal contracts to companies that pay poverty wages, outsource jobs overseas, engage in union busting, deny good benefits, and pay CEOs outrageous compensation packages
- Eliminate “Right to Work for Less” laws and guarantees the right to unionize for workers historically excluded from labor protections, like farm workers and domestic workers.
Seems pretty union friendly to me.
Sounds like a page out of Franklin D. Roosevelt's playbook.