Posted on 02/10/2020 6:04:03 AM PST by karpov
Ten years ago Democrats chose not to use their 60-vote Senate majority to pass card-check legislation letting unions avoid secret-ballot elections. Even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to bring up the bill for a vote. How political times have changed. House Democrats last week passed the PRO Act, 224-194, that would impose a back-door card check and gut the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act in the most sweeping pro-union legislation since the 1935 Wagner Act.
The bill codifies Obama -era National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rulings that overturned decades of labor law. Employers would have to hand over workers’ private information to labor organizers. Union-organizing elections would be accelerated so employers have less time to make the case against unions.
Workers could also lose their long-held right to secret-ballot elections. Under current law the NLRB can order new elections if unions complain about employer interference. The PRO Act would let the NLRB impose a union on a workplace based on cards signed by workers if labor organizers complain the employer interfered in an election. Employers and workers could not challenge this card check in federal court.
At least Taft-Hartley allows workers in “right-to-work” states to opt out of unions. The House bill would nullify state right-to-work laws. If you like your job but don’t want to pay union dues, you won’t be able to keep it.
The bill would also impose the Obama-era joint-employer standard that put corporations and contractors on the hook for workers they don’t employ but “indirectly control.” A study for the International Franchise Association found the rule had cost franchise businesses an average of $142,000 per year.
Employers would not be allowed to replace striking workers so they would lose most leverage during negotiations. If a union and employer can’t [agree], an arbitrator could impose a contract
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Sounds like a good day to Reverse JFK’s Executive Order allowing Gubmimt Unions, Mr President!!
DOA ... thankfully.
what are the chances this makes it through the senate?
Romney will vote for it.
Somewhere between zero, 0 and no chance.
What I heard is the death rattle of American Unions. The effort is a Banzai suicide attack,the Charge Of The Light Brigade.
In his second term, President Trump will eliminate the government unions and in so doing, the union movement
Yeah, the GOP House passed plenty of stuff too when Obama was President.
Hey Labor, dose of reality for ya. Biggest pro-labor thing to pass, downing NAFTA.
As a non-union public school teacher, I would never want a union in charge.
If we hold on to the Senate. If the Democrats take power in all three branches of government, this is only the tip of the iceberg. The world will become “Orwellian overnight.
I talked to 23 years in private schools. They would be unionized, too!
Zero and none!
and they will charge racism...but then again what isn’t?
Dead in the Senate.
DOA in the Senate. The bill isn’t veto-proof.
This is simply a wedging issue being thrown down by the (D) machine. It’s an attempt to put the (R) machine on record as being anti-worker. It’s a lame attempt; but it’s all they have to limp around on.
My advice to the ninja-turtle is to study it to death until after the election. Put it through multiple committees until the clock runs out. Give ‘em nothing. No floor vote.
Employment should NEVER hinge on union membership (as it does in many closed-shop entities). You want to join, join. You don’t, then don’t. Period.
We are all individuals with the freedom to associate with whomever we wish. That is in the Constitution. Forcing membership in a DNC-supporting thugocracy is not.
>>>DOA ... thankfully
As Harry Reid did countless times to Republican bills.
They’re trying to buy the union vote.
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