Punching In: Biden Ramping Up Labor Agenda as Midterms Loom

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers

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Ben Penn: Three developments central to shaping the Biden administration’s workplace policy agenda are likely to converge in the next month.

The first involves the fate of transformative labor provisions in Democrats’ House-approved reconciliation bill, now subject to negotiation in the Senate. Second is the White House’s yet-to-be-unveiled task force report recommending executive actions to aid union organizing. And third is the semiannual agenda that lists each federal agency’s rulemaking playbook over the next year.

These items are operating on separate tracks, and we ...