2024 NE Senate race: on Jobs

Dan Osborn: Pass the PRO Act, $50,000 fines for labor law violations

Passing the PRO Act would:
• Institute "card check"
• Repeal the secondary boycott ban
• Impose $50,000 fines for labor law violations
• Tighten the definition of "independent contractor", to cut down on the practice of misclassifying employees as contractors and freelancers in order to prevent them from unionizing
• Prohibit "captive audience" meetings

Dan Osborn: Raise the federal minimum wage to Nebraska's wage [$12/hr.]

Peter Ricketts: Sponsored the National Right to Work Act

Labor: Make it easier or harder for unions to organize?
• Preston Love Jr. (D): Easier. "Will support measures strengthening organized labor and keeping good-paying jobs in Nebraska."
• Pete Ricketts (R): Harder. In 2023, sponsored the National Right to Work Act, which would allow employees in a unionized workplace to not pay union dues. In 2015 testified before Congress in support of right-to-work laws.

Peter Ricketts: Markets should set employee wages: no minimum wage

Minimum Wage: Raise the federal minimum from $7.25 per hour?
• Preston Love Jr. (D): Likely yes. "All Americans deserve a livable wage for an honest day's work."
• Pete Ricketts (R): Likely no. In 2022 opposed the voter-approved raise in Nebraska, saying that markets should set employee wages. "Employers should pay what the market demands to hire people."

Preston Love: Strengthen organized labor

Labor: Make it easier or harder for unions to organize?
• Preston Love Jr. (D): Easier. "Will support measures strengthening organized labor and keeping good-paying jobs in Nebraska."
• Pete Ricketts (R): Harder. In 2023, sponsored the National Right to Work Act, which would allow employees in a unionized workplace to not pay union dues. In 2015 testified before Congress in support of right-to-work laws.

Preston Love: All Americans deserve a livable wage

Minimum Wage: Raise the federal minimum from $7.25 per hour?
• Preston Love Jr. (D): Likely yes. "All Americans deserve a livable wage for an honest day's work."
• Pete Ricketts (R): Likely no. In 2022 opposed the voter-approved raise in Nebraska, saying that markets should set employee wages. "Employers should pay what the market demands to hire people."