Beto O’Rourke released a plan today to strengthen unions and boost workers’ wages
It would permit the National Labor Relations Board — the quasi-judicial agency charged with protecting workers’ union rights — to impose monetary fines on employers that terminate a worker wrongfully or that, in violating the National Labor Relations Act, cause a worker to suffer economic harm. Under current law, the NLRB may order reinstatement or collection of back pay, but it can't impose fines.
Further, O’Rourke's plan seeks to create a European-style system of collective bargaining, where union leaders and managers would agree on minimum standards for an entire industry sector rather than negotiating separately with each individual company.
In addition, O’Rourke would seek to adopt a stricter legal test making it harder for companies to classify workers as independent contractors. The change, already the subject of, would give thousands of gig-economy workers the same legal protections as full-time employees, including the minimum wage and overtime.
O‘Rourke also says he would sign a Democratic bill to narrow the gender wage gap by preventing employers from basing pay on salary history, and require employers to demonstrate that any pay disparity between a man and a woman was attributable to job performance rather than gender. In addition, he supports legislation to prevent LGBT discrimination in the workplace and giving the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission more authority and funding to go after bad actors.
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