Labor Pressing Obama for Action on Contractor Workers’ Union Rights

Labor groups and lawmakers are pressuring the Obama administration to issue perhaps its furthest-reaching executive order aimed at federal contractors — this time to strengthen workers’ union rights.

Labor and progressive leaders told Bloomberg BNA that the administration is discussing a possible post-election action: a model employer executive order (EO), including a labor peace clause that would mandate that contractors affirm workers’ right to unionize in return for a no-strike pledge.

However, an administration official downplayed the possibility that the White House currently has plans for a new contractor-focused EO.

President Barack Obama has already signed 13 EOs and presidential ...