Senior Vice President, Employment Policy Division, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

By Glenn Spencer and Michael J. Lotito

OPINION:

It comes as no surprise that federal policies occasionally favor one group over another. What is surprising, however, is to see virtually the entire executive branch mobilize to promote a single special interest over everything else.

Yet that’s what the administration is doing with labor unions. As a candidate in 2020, President Biden declared he would be the most pro-union commander in chief in history. While it’s nice to see a politician live up to campaign promises, this pledge would be better left unfulfilled.

The unions-at-all-costs mentality starts at the top: The White House has formed a multiagency Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment. Its tentacles have spread all across the government.

The most obvious example is the National Labor Relations Board. The NLRB, including its general counsel, has launched a concerted campaign against employer free speech rights, attempting to prevent workers from hearing any voice other than that of labor unions. It has overturned precedents that ensured unions couldn’t gerrymander their own bargaining units in workplace elections and authorized the use of profanity and hate speech in the workplace.

It wants to convert independent contractors into formal employees so that unions can organize them and collect dues. The general counsel wants to force workers to organize via signature cards (known as “...

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