Posted on 04/28/2019 10:39:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
LAS VEGAS — Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris called for the federal ban on so-called "right-to-work" laws in the United States during her Saturday morning remarks at the National Forum on Wages and Working People.
"Banning right-to-work laws" would be one of the first initiatives Harris would take up in office, she told the audience of labor members and organizers at The Enclave in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Republican governors and legislators throughout the country have been pushing through laws that allow individuals to join a company or firm without being obligated to pay or join a labor union. Some right-to-work laws also forbid contracts that force employers to hire unionized workers. More than half of U.S. states have some sort of right-to-work law on the books.
"I'd use my executive authority to make sure barriers are not in place to do the advocacy [unions] need to do," Harris said.
Critics say that right-to-work laws have devastated local labor groups around the country, which have already faced a precipitous decline since their peak in the 20th century.
“The barriers to organized labor to organize and strike have grown over a period of time,” Harris said.
Earlier in April, fellow 2020 presidential candidate Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders told an audience at the International Association of Machinists conference, also in Las Vegas, that he would ban right-to-work laws.
Harris' call for a ban on such legislation is another signal of a Democratic field vying to placate progressive members of the base. Such a ban on right-to-work laws would likely need to be approved by Congress, where Republicans — who are the most vocal supporters of such laws — currently control the Senate.
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Another clueless derived idea.
I absolutely love how the ‘RAT candidates are trying to “OUT CRAZY” one another.
The party of slavery speaks.
Do Democrats simply pander to whatever interest group they are speaking to?
Do they have any policy positions which have been developed and thought through? Or is everything just a pandering position at that point in time?
That’s some kind of logic. Letting people choose whether to be in a union is a “barrier” to unions. Only in a dictatorship.
Well, of course. The Dems want an irreversible dictatorship of government; the unions would be an important part of it, because members' livelihood is connected with their conformity to the party line.
At one time, labor unions were badly needed, but that time is way past...Now, they are nothing more than organized thieves...
In a unionized field, being blacklisted by the union for political incorrectness, means you are unemployable.
Communistic trash ... the whole of the DNC ... vile loathsome, perverted, baby killing corrupt trash.
The get along with Democrats RNC Quislings aren’t that great either ... they just don’t suck as badly.
They might have been helpful to IT workers, maybe still, to eliminate H1B and foreign workers taking jobs and suppressing wages.
“ban”
I think people that call for bans should start their own country, and leave the rest of us alone. Call it Banistan. Let them ban all the want there. Knock themselves out. Let’s see how wonderful a utopia they can create.
pretense of a campaign for the office she’s ineligible for anyway. She’s evrn fusguised her biographical info at her website to hide the relevant facts. All this is a fundraising scheme. Fraudulent as hell but I bet she gets away with it ( after the Obama fiasco)
The Dems’ devotion to the “right to choose” is limited to the extermination of the unborn.
My job
My choice
It makes unionized workers a command/control extension of the government, or at least would when the Left was in power.
That’s some kind of logic. Letting people choose whether to be in a union is a “barrier” to unions. Only in a dictatorship.
Yep, they’re trying to out-commie each other. Sanders is attempting to fool people with some moderate statements but it won’t last for long because the young ones will pressure him into going back to full commie.
Which ever one gets the nomination will move to the center as they always do.
I’d be curious to know by what authority Big Sister thinks she can speak state right to work laws out of existence
> “I’d use my executive authority to make sure barriers are not in place to do the advocacy [unions] need to do,” Harris said. <
Harris is right in that right-to-work laws make it tougher for unions to operate. But so what! Walmart makes it tougher for small businesses to operate. Should Walmart be banned?
Side note: I am, in general, pro-union. You want to join a union? Go for it. It’s a free country. But should you have to join a union? No! Again, it’s a free country.
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