Executive Order 14025: Worker Organizing and Empowerment

President: Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Created a Vice President-led task force to identify lawful federal actions supporting worker organizing and collective bargaining.

Status: Completed/expired. Is Executive Order 14025 still in effect? No. Executive Order 14025 is completed or expired. See Federal Register record.

Workers from different occupations join hands around a table in an industrial setting.
Worker organizing and interagency review, illustrated symbolically; not a record of a particular union, workplace vote or bargaining agreement. EO Explained · site-generated editorial illustration · not documentary evidence.

What does Executive Order 14025 do?

The Vice President-led task force had 180 days to identify existing federal powers that could support worker organizing.

Administration position: The order’s findings and policy rationale were the Biden administration’s positions. This guide distinguishes them from implementation records and judicial rulings.
SignedApril 26, 2021
Lead officialsVice President, Labor Secretary and interagency task force
Express timingRecommendations within 180 days; implementation reporting followed

Before and after

Before the order

Labor policy was administered agency by agency, without a government-wide review of programs that could lawfully support organizing.

After the order

The task force issued recommendations in February 2022 and agencies reported implementation. The Biden-era task force ceased operating after the change of administration, though EO 14025 was not listed in the principal 2025 rescission orders checked.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Task ForceIdentify executive policies and programs supporting organizing180 days
AgenciesImplement accepted recommendations within existing authorityOngoing

What happened next

EO 14025 signed.

The White House released the task-force report and recommendations.

Task-force leadership changed with the administration; no express revocation located.