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2020 presidential candidates on the right to strike

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This page includes statements from the 2020 presidential candidates on the right to strike. These statements were compiled from each candidate's official campaign website, editorials, speeches, and interviews. Click the following links for policy statements about related issues: Janus v. AFSCME, public-sector unions, unionization and organization, and labor policy.

The candidates featured on this page are the 2020 presidential nominees from the Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, and Green parties.

Republican Party Donald Trump
Democratic Party Joe Biden
Green Party Howie Hawkins
Libertarian Party Jo Jorgensen

Right to Strike

Republican candidates

Donald Trump

Donald Trump's campaign website does not include a statement about the right to strike. [source, as of 2020-03-09]

Roque De La Fuente

Rocque de la Fuente's campaign website does not include a statement about the right to strike. [source, as of 2020-03-09]

Bill Weld

Bill Weld's campaign website does not include a statement about the right to strike. [source, as of 2020-03-09]

Democratic candidates

Joe Biden

According to Joe Biden's campaign website, "The right of workers to withhold their labor, or to strike, is fundamental to balancing power in the workplace. But too many workers risk reprisal, punishment, or termination when they seek to bring pressure on employers by participating in strikes, picket lines, and boycotts."

His campaign website continues, "Low wage workers face especially high barriers to exercising their right to strike. They often have too few resources to sustain long strikes, and instead require short, periodic strikes, or “intermittent strikes,” to be able to bring pressure to their employer. Under current law, these types of strikes are not sufficiently protected. And, because low-wage workers often do not have specialized skills, they are more often “permanently replaced” – or functionally fired – while striking. Workers are also often limited in the pressure they can exert on employers because of restrictions on boycotting “secondary” businesses that have influence over their employer. These secondary boycotts are essential for promoting workers’ voice. For example, after tomato growers unsuccessfully led strikes of their employer at the turn of the century, they successfully boycotted Taco Bell and other fast-food giants who bought the tomatoes to gain better wages and working conditions. Biden has supported secondary boycotts since he entered public service, and has long supported banning “permanent replacement” of workers. As president, Biden will fight for passage of the PRO Act to protect intermittent strikes, ban permanent strike replacements, and remove the ill-conceived ban on secondary boycotts once and for all." [source, as of 2020-03-02]

Tulsi Gabbard

Tulsi Gabbard's campaign website does not include a statement about the right to strike. [source, as of 2020-03-09]

Bernie Sanders

According to Bernie Sanders' campaign website, he will "give federal workers the right to strike."

His website adds, "In December, Trump shutdown the federal government for 35 days — the longest in history — depriving over 800,000 workers of their paychecks. Adding insult to injury, hundreds of thousands of TSA agents, air traffic controllers, IRS employees, members of the Coast Guard, and other federal government employees were forced to work without pay and without recourse. Under current law, federal employees are not guaranteed the same labor rights as workers in the private sector. While they have the ability to unionize, they are prohibited from going on strike. Under this plan, federal workers would have the right to strike." [source, as of 2020-03-02]

Bernie Sanders

According to Bernie Sanders' campaign website, he will "ban the permanent replacement of striking workers." [source, as of 2020-03-02]


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