Worker intimidation is just one of many, many reasons why the Employee Free Choice Act should not become law. But, as Wall Street Journal editorial board member Matthew Kaminski recently reported, this practice is allegedly underway already as two unions duke it out in California. On one side is the Service Employees International Union, a big time EFCA booster whose president, Andy Stern, is a fr... Read more »
As we wrote yesterday, unions are pushing for laws similar to the Employee Free Choice Act in many states because their job-killing agenda is going nowhere on Capitol Hill. But in Missouri, supporters of the secret ballot are pushing back. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Thursday that a group trying to protect the privacy of workers in the Show-Me State survived a legal challenge to their eff... Read more »
Frustrated that Washington Democrats have not made good on their promise to pass the job killing, misnamed Employee Free Choice Act, union leadership is putting the pressure on states to carry their agenda. A recent report in the Wall Street Journal highlights how unions are taking a local approach in the same spirit of their national plans to undermine workers’ right to a secret ballot: “Both sid... Read more »
Like many business owners large and small, Michael Regan is worried about the future – especially if that future includes the Employee Free Choice Act. In a blog post for Logistics Management, Michael Regan, CEO of TranzAct Technologies Inc., noted that unemployment is at a record 10.2 percent nationally because “our political leadership has created uncertainty about the future” and, when faced wi... Read more »
As congressional Democrats trip over themselves to find new and innovative ways to entrench more power in Washington, Americans are reminded of those big government agenda items that are already proving hazardous to the economy. At the top of the list, the mere threat of the grossly misnamed Employee Free Choice Act is already stifling job creation even though Speaker Pelosi and her union allies h... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, has requested information about the Education Department’s efforts to influence pending legislation that would end private sector-based federal student loans. Kline’s request comes in response to multiple media accounts alleging that department officials have pressed colleges and universities to support the... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today after Speaker Pelosi and congressional Democrats rushed through their massive $1.3 trillion overhaul of America’s health care system. “Faced with the highest unemployment rate in almost three decades and a Washington spending spree that will saddle our children with insu... Read more »
Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, spoke on the Floor of the House of Representatives this evening during debate on the Pelosi government takeover of health care. Drawing needed attention to the enormous power congressional Democrats are set to give to a new super-bureaucrat in Washington – the “Health Choices Commissioner” – Rep. Kline call... Read more »
Thank you Madame Speaker – where do I begin? We have before us over 2,000 pages of legislative text that continues to be amended with additional changes none of us have had much of any chance to review. I cannot even begin to convey to you what’s wrong with this bill in the short time available. But let me share just a few of my concerns. A price tag of $1.3 trillion … and counting $730 billion in... Read more »
It’s a record, but definitely not one to be proud of. The Labor Department released the latest unemployment figures today, and they have crossed into double-digit territory for the first time since 1983. Now more than one out of every 10 workers is unemployed, as The Washington Post notes here: “More than one in 10 members of the American workforce were unable to get a job in October, the Labor De... Read more »
