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President Barack Obama has signed four executive orders that reverse orders by the Bush Administration and begin to halt attacks on workers and their unions.
"The Bush Administration took every opportunity to undermine working people and their unions. President Obama has begun to reserve those actions," said General President Terry O'Sullivan.
The executive orders:
Encourage federal agencies to consider requiring construction contractors and subcontractors to enter into Project Labor Agreements on federal projects of $25 million or more. The move reverses a Bush order which banned federal PLA requirements.
Reverses a Bush Administration order requiring federal contractors to post a biased notice to workers on jobsites, informing them of procedures to withhold paying their fair share
of union dues. Federal contractors will now be required to post a fair and balanced notice informing workers of their right to form and join a union.
Prohibits the use of taxpayer money for efforts by federal contractors to interfere with employees trying to form or join a union.
Reverses a Bush Administration order by requiring that when a federal service contract expires and a contract is awarded to a new contractor for the same work at the same location, the new contractor must offer jobs to the previous contractor's service
employees.
The General President said the orders will "help build America by ensuring that projects are completed on time and on budget with good pay, benefits and skills training which opens doors to new opportunities for workers and contractors alike, and will help to level the playing field for working people."
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