Unions by another name? Lawmakers question rise of 'worker centers'

fox ^ | 7-27-13 | Mike Emanuel

[TurboZamboni]

Roughly 200 so-called "worker centers" across the country are representing employees who work in everything from the fast-food industry to the taxi business.

But some key Republican lawmakers are asking if those centers are actually acting more like labor unions. The concern is that the rise of these groups has become a way around the rules that govern bona-fide unions -- like requirements to submit financial filings to the feds every year.

House education committee Chairman John Kline, R-Minn., and Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., sent a letter this week to newly confirmed Labor Secretary Thomas Perez requesting that he clarify the situation.

[TurboZamboni]

I'm sure Sec Tommy P will get right on that.

[AtlasStalled]

“worker centers”

Haha . . . the phrase sounds so big government

[lurk]

What’s a 5 letter word, starting with U, that is a synonym for corruption?

[Bayard]

I really have respect for workers and laborers who band together to ensure honest pay and labor conditions. I do take issue with groups that have become little more than a political machine for partisan politics.

[CdMGuy]

In another 3 1/2 years, Obama and his henchmen will have accomplished what they set out to do, that being to turn the USA into a left wing dictatorship. Sending a letter to the new labor secretary is as effective as sending a letter to the man in the moon. Meanwhile, Boehner and the so-called Republican party continue to snooze.

[Red Dog #1]

I’d have zero problems with unregulated labor unions if: 1) they weren’t exempt from anti-trust laws, 2) no closed shop rules, 3) no concealing organized crime connections, 4) works covered by the RLA could vote out unions and finally 5) they ditched the antibusiness/Marxist/”intellectual” blood suckers (that don’t serve the working man’s interest anyway).