Opposition continues to mount against the undemocratic card check scheme, with small businesses speaking up this week about how the controversial legislation is bad for their workers and bad for the economy. The Senate Republican Policy Committee and Senate Republican Conference joined together yesterday to host a hearing on small businesses and how they would be impacted by the so-called Employee... Read more »
Last week, we responded to growing speculation that a move is afoot to compromise on the anti-worker card check bill. Speaking of card check, we said, “It’s bad for workers, bad for the economy, and just plain bad for democracy. … On card check, there is simply no room for compromise.” Still, word of a compromise has continued to spread, with MSNBC’s First Read reporting this morning— “Some busine... Read more »
Supporters of the undemocratic card check plan seem to have come to the conclusion that their plan is so toxic, and so unpopular with the American public, that it will never become law. How else to explain the recent increase in speculation about a possible “compromise” on card check? There’s just one problem. At its core, card check is nothing more than a special interest power grab that would be... Read more »
The following op-ed by Reps. John Kline (R-MN) and Tom Price (R-GA) appears today in The Washington Times. Kline and Price are the top Republicans on the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee and Workforce Protections Subcommittee, respectively. The right to say 'no' John Kline and Tom Price COMMENTARY: There are sacred principles that epitomize American democracy. Freedom of speech... Read more »
Without much fanfare, Democrats in Congress have quietly set in motion a plan that the Washington Post has described as “an ill-disguised bid to kill a program that gives some poor parents a choice regarding where their children go to school.” Through a little-noticed provision tucked in the FY 2009 omnibus spending bill – a $410 billion monstrosity that funds everything from the United States Sec... Read more »
One of the major arguments against the anti-worker card check scheme – the legislation introduced in Congress that would replace federally-supervised secret ballot elections with a public sign-up process that makes workers’ choices known to all – is that the American people overwhelmingly reject it as undemocratic. New polling data released yesterday by Rasmussen Reports confirm the public’s views... Read more »
Now that card check legislation has been formally introduced in Congress, the arguments on both sides are coming into focus. One of the most puzzling claims that card check supporters repeat over and over is that workers are somehow being victimized today by secret ballot elections, because employers pressure them to vote no on joining a union. This claim has never made much sense. If workers are ... Read more »
The following op-ed by Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-CA) appears in The Hill newspaper as part of a special report on Children’s Initiatives. All parents want to give their children the best that life has to offer, and they know that a high-quality education is the key that can open many of life’s doors. No one cares more about a child’s education than his or her parents. And that means no one i... Read more »
Recognizing that small businesses are critical to the American economy, the White House today hosted a conference on small businesses in which the Obama administration outlined new plans purportedly aimed at helping small businesses weather the economic storm. What the administration failed to mention, however, is that one of the greatest threats to small businesses today is the one-two punch of h... Read more »
A press release issued this week by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters took many people by surprise with its overt attack on the principle of the secret ballot. After all, supporters of the undemocratic card check plan – which replaces secret ballot voting with a public sign-up process that opens workers to intimidation and coercion – have been working overtime trying to convince the Ameri... Read more »
