Political gridlock has stymied federal labor law reform efforts, and decades of Supreme Court preemption doctrine inhibits cities and states from enacting policies that impact the organizing and collective bargaining process. Yet in spite of these challenges, workers, advocates, and policymakers have continued to organize, push for, and win policies at the state and local level that enable workers to build power in meaningful ways.
Several states have passed or proposed constitutional amendments affirming the right to collective bargaining and barring future attempts to enact right-to-work legislation. Over a dozen cities and states have established sector-wide workers’ boards that give workers a seat at the table in determining standards for wages and workplace conditions. Project labor agreements, community benefit agreements, and prevailing wage laws attached to bids for public contracts have helped to support high-quality jobs and strong labor standards. And just last month, Illinois became the eighth state to pass legislation prohibiting captive audience meetings. These are a few examples of the dozens of state and local policies our team has surveyed over the past year. Today, CLJE:Lab is thrilled to share the culmination of our exploration with the launch of Building Worker Power in Cities and States: A Toolkit for State and Local Labor Policy Innovation.
This toolkit is intended to serve as an accessible resource for policymakers,...
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