A Whole-of-Government Approach to Increasing Worker Power

Abstract

The declining power of workers is a national crisis with both economic and socio-political consequences. Declining worker power is the product of law, economic governance, and decisions within our governmental institutions and regulatory agencies. This issue brief first outlines the sources of declining worker power (Part I). It then identifies the various government institutions and authorities that impact the trajectory of worker power, delineating mechanisms they can deploy to reverse that decline under a whole-of-government approach (Part II). The brief then expands a whole-of-government approach to macroeconomic policy to tackle employer power even during periods of inflation (Part III).