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President Signs Three Pro-Union Executive Orders

President Barack Obama signed three Executive Orders on January 30, 2009, that some describe as aimed at reversing Bush-era rules that critics view as “anti-union.” The Executive Orders would:

• Prevent federal contractors from being reimbursed for expenses for their activities undertaken to influence workers deciding whether to unionize and engage in collective bargaining.
• Require successor federal contractors, and their subcontractors, to offer jobs to current workers when contractors change.
• Reverse a Bush order requiring federal contractors to notify workers that they can limit their financial support of unions that are serving as their exclusive bargaining representatives.

We will provide additional information about these Executive Orders in a later update.

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