‘Unrig the economy for working people’: the California candidate who wrote updated labor laws
Marni von Wilpert helped draft Protecting the Right to Organize act, and now wants work toward implementing it Legislation that would modernize federal labor law began with a handful of lawyers meeting, of all places, in an ice-cream shop. “We wrote for hours what we would do to amend the National Labor Relations Act,” said Marni von Wilpert, a member of the San Diego city council who was then an…
Marni von Wilpert, a San Diego city council member and former National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) attorney, is campaigning to replace Republican US Representative Darrell Issa. Von Wilpert aims to finalize labor law reform, a goal she witnessed in a now-decaded-old meeting of lawyers in an ice-cream parlor who drafted legislation to update the National Labor Relations Act.
The Protecting the Right to Organize (Pro) Act, a piece of legislation she co-authored with Democratic Congressman Bobby Scott and Senator Patty Murray, has been introduced in Congress since 2019 but has failed to gain traction in the Senate. Von Wilpert seeks to strengthen protections for workers organizing, impose monetary penalties for labor violations, and hold corporate executives accountable.
Her campaign emphasizes the need to "unrig the economy for working people," contrasting her progressive stance against Desmond's right-leaning policies. Desmond, a Trump-endorsed county supervisor, has opposed labor-friendly measures such as minimum wage increases and labor standards for county workers.
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