The sweeping legislation is a wish-list of changes to labor and employment law, including:
- Stripping workers’ right to private voting and secret ballots in union elections;
- Eliminating “secondary boycott” protections that protect employers from becoming ensnared in other employers' labor disputes;
- Codifying the NLRB’s controversial Browning-Ferris joint employment standard;
- Eliminating the ability of states to enact Right-to-Work laws; and
- Importing into the NLRA California’s recently adopted “ABC” test for determining whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor.
Why it matters: Although the legislation will not move this year in the Republican-controlled Congress, it lays down a marker for what Democrats are likely to pursue over the next two years. Significantly, the legislation could see action in a Democrat-controlled House, depending on the election results in November.