Posted on 12/05/2016 12:34:16 PM PST by mdittmar
The incoming chair of the congressional panel that oversees labor issues on Monday questioned the need for unions and said she wants to repeal various Obama administration labor policies.
Organized labor has “sort of lost its reason for being” because of the many laws in place to protect workers, said Representative Virginia Foxx, a 73-year-old Republican from North Carolina who will become chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce in January, in a telephone interview with Reuters
Labor unions have already been wary about how they will fare under the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump, with Republicans poised to control the presidency and both chambers of Congress.
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All labor unions should die.
Government workers unions and teachers unions should die first.
They destroy everything they touch
Since Unions only represent 7% of the entire workforce I’d say they are almost dead anyway. The almost non existent union boogieman is used as a red herring to justify offshoring by the globalist propagandists.
Where would that be?
"The incoming chair of the congressional panel that oversees labor issues [emphasis added] on Monday questioned the need for unions and said she wants to repeal various Obama administration labor policies."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Patriots are reminded that the states have never delegated to the corrupt feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to decide policy for INTRAstate labor issues.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Check the BLS. 7% of the USA’s work force is unionized.
One easy thing they can do is to change the rule that doesn’t let employers to give performance raises after the contract was negotiated. Who doesn’t want a raise? Unionists that want to keep everyone in the same boat.
http://solutions.heritage.org/the-economy/labor/
What is the % of the manufacturing sector?
Public-sector workers had a union membership rate of (35.2%) more than five times higher than that of private-sector workers (6.7%).
10%
ping!
For now I am concerned about manufacturing. But ALL public sector unions need to die. That is a Kennedy legacy.
Agreed - there is no good reason for any public unions, they really harm tax payers and impede public services. I can see some use for a union in very dangerous jobs but nothing like what unions have morphed into at this point.
True. Congress should repeal the National Labor Relations Act altogether.
It is not for Congress or the NLRB to decide the role of unions. Let those who want to join and pay for a union do so. Let those who do not wan to join a union or pay for it do so.
Why should a bunch of labor attorneys decide what I should or should not join?
I hope that by "various" she means "all". Repeal every rule, regulation, policy, and executive order from these eight terrible years. Leave nothing behind, no legacy beyond a dreadful lesson and a crippling debt.
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