Posted on 04/19/2021 10:28:47 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) on Monday threw his support behind the PRO Act, union-backed legislation to promote labor organizing.
The PRO Act would block so-called "right-to-work" laws, which allow people who benefit from union representation to opt out of membership and paying dues, and impose tougher restrictions on companies seeking to prevent unionization efforts.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Always.
When have they ever not cut him a check !
Manchin is a Democrat, and a politician. Why would you expect anything else? He only made noises like a conservative because his union member constituents were getting screwed over by the Obama administration and the Greenies..... he knows they can’t remember anything longer than two weeks, so he’s free now to get back into his skin.
I find it fascinating that some people on this site are astonished that Manchin ultimately supports Democrat issues and votes the “Democrat Way”.
Joe Manchin is a Democrat. Period.
Preaching to the choir ! I live in WV.
The state GOP and this includes the GOP primary voters have a this way of selecting flawed candidates when it comes to opposing Manchin.
Commies, one and all.
Manchin is full of chit. If anyone thinks that he’s a moderate they’re stoopid.
Fine with me - if I didn’t wanted Manchin to be our gatekeeper, I would have voted for those pesky RINOs in Georgia.
What The Hill fails to mention is that the PRO Act is a carbon copy of California’s AB 5, the anti-independent contractor law that wiped out about 200,000 jobs.
The Supreme Court ruled that “right-to-work” laws are constitutional, so it would take the Supreme Court to reverse their own ruling, not legislative action.
State right-to-work laws are authorized by Section 14-B of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947. Repeal Section 14-B and states can no longer enact these laws. That almost happened in 2009.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Post-17th Amendment ratification, union vote-buying Sen. Manchin unsurprisingly doesn’t seem to understand (blatantly ignores?) that the only union that the states have expressly protected in the Constitution is the Union of states, no express protection for labor unions.
”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.
In fact, Justice Joseph Story had indicated that the Commerce Clause (1.8.3) doesn’t even give Congress the power to regulate wages.
"Agriculture, colonies, capital, machinery, the wages of labour, the profits of stock, the rents of land, the punctual performance of contracts, and the diffusion of knowledge would all be within the scope of the power; for all of them bear an intimate relation to commerce. The result would be, that the powers of congress would embrace the widest extent of legislative functions, to the utter demolition of all constitutional boundaries between the state and national governments [emphases added]." —"Justice Joseph Story, Commerce Clause (1.8.3), 1833.
So by supporting this bill, Manchin and other lawmakers are violating their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution.
More specifically, they are once again trying to expand the powers of the already unconstitutionally big federal government without the constitutionally required approval of the Constitution’s Article V state supermajority.
To put a stop to unconstitutional federal government overreach, patriots need to primary (2022) federal and state lawmakers who don’t agree to do the following about state powers stolen by the corrupt feds.
When the federal government accuses someone of violating a law, judges and law enforcement officials should be required to do the following.
Judges and law-enforcement officials need to inform the accused of the constitutional clause(s) that arguably justifies the allegedly broken law for further scrutiny of the constitutionality of that law, especially where unconstitutional federal peacetime gun control laws are concerned imo.
“right-to-work” laws, which allow people who benefit from union representation to opt out of membership and paying dues,
Is that really what ‘right to work’ laws do? I thought they didn’t force anyone to recognize a union nor force them into any kid of binding arbitration. That the individual(s) would rely on the FLSA to resolve issues and not some union contract.
Georgia is “right to work”. One of the things that the movie industry loves as they don’t have to pay those union wages for all the liberal movie folks that have moved here, if they don’t want to. Nothing but hypocrites.
But the bill does not repeal that
Not from what I read
“Right to work” means that you can be fired for any, or no reason.
Just like any salaried employee.
Theyre going to find out soon enough it seems. Let the people enjoy Democracy (Mob Rule) good and hard.
Big point is, unless he changes his mind on the 60 vote closure rule, the bill would be dead.
If it gets 60 votes to be voted on, then it’s the Republicans fault. Manchin is just being a Democrat, but if Republicans cave then it’s on them.
We just need him to stand firm on the closure rule
Just another media seeking demented democrat who also is by choice in the party that condones before and after birth infanticide. The demons are smiling.
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