Andrea Hsu
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1,135 appearances
153 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 18 Sep
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It requires employers to begin contract talks within 10 days of a union election.
If there's no deal 90 days later, federal mediators get involved.
And if there's still no deal 30 days after that, an arbitration panel steps in to settle the matter.
Opponents of the bill call it draconian and argue the government is not in the best position to hammer out deals between private companies and their employees.
The measure now heads to the Senate, where it would need 60 votes to pass.
Andrea Hsu, NPR News.
After a union election, it takes an average of 465 days for workers and employers to reach a first contract.
That's according to Bloomberg Law.
The Faster Labor Contracts Act cuts that time dramatically.
It requires employers to begin contract talks within 10 days of a union election.
If there's no deal 90 days later, federal mediators get involved.
And if there's still no deal 30 days after that, an arbitration panel steps in to settle the matter.
Opponents of the bill call it draconian and argue the government is not in the best position to hammer out deals between private companies and their employees.
The measure now heads to the Senate, where it would need 60 votes to pass.
Andrea Hsu, NPR News.
Civil servants have long enjoyed job protections much stronger than what workers in the private sector have.
Michael Martinez says that's by design.
He's a former government attorney who's now part of the legal team at Democracy Forward, which is suing the Trump administration to block the reclassification.
The Trump administration says those job protections have hampered government efficiency.
The administration argues that like a CEO in the private sector, the president must be able to remove those in policymaking roles who don't support his mission.
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